Training
Training is a great way of equipping staff to help your organisation meet is objectives and it has the added benefit of bringing expertise in-house. This in turn reduces dependence on outside expertise and allows you to make more informed choices if you are purchasing external services or products. Investing in staff capability at the present time is an investment for the future. When the recession ends and as trade starts to pick up it will be vital to have the capacity to expand into wider markets and respond to new opportunities.
Using social media for research (research methods series)
6th March 2012, Central London
A one-day workshop for library and information professionals and researchers looking at ways in which social media can be used to reach target audiences during surveys. A highly participative workshop.
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Introduction to Metadata
30th May 2012
This course provides a solid grounding in the concepts behind metadata and emphasises the main skills needed for effective metadata work. The course is aimed at professional library and information workers who are taking on responsibility of metadata in their work.
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Skills and qualifications
Coming soon
We will shortly be launching courses specifically for the regulated qualifications and skills sector. They will be designed to help awarding organisations, sector and professional bodies prepare for continuing changes to the market for regulated qualifications.
How to Create a Taxonomy
17th April 2012
This course is aimed at information professionals who have to organise and categorise information as part of their work. This may mean constructing a taxonomy for materials on an institutional repository, development of a file plan for records management or creation of a navigable structure for a website or intranet. The one-day course will use different types of classification system and will be based on exercises to practice and develop skills for creating classification systems.
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Digital Repositories and Metadata
15th May 2012
Many organisations and institutions have started to develop their own digital repositories. These range from institutions repositories for higher education to specialist repositories for subject-specific research communities. This course is for managers and information professionals responsible for putting material onto repositories and for making sure that it has adequate metadata. The course covers the main metadata standards used in digital repositories and looks at ways in which metadata can be effectively managed. It also looks at the impact of metadata strategy on collaboration between repositories and federated searching across repositories.
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Questionnaire Surveys (Research methods series)
3rd July 2012, Central London
This workshop takes participants though the stages of survey design, developing question areas, types of questions, identifying respondents, and different methods of analysis. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a better understanding of how to design a survey and construct effective questionnaires.
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