Inhouse database training

Training on the following databases:

• State Papers Online - Part One 1509-1603
• Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Newspapers (Burney Collection)
• Economist Historical Archive

Tuesday 16 December at 2 pm - 3.30pm

South Training Room, Berkeley Library

Training provided by: Peter Foster, a Gale senior sales executive for Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Training provided for: Library, College Research Staff and other interested parties.

Information on each of these electronic resources can be found on our databases page at http://www.tcd.ie/Library/resources/index.php If you wish to attend please e-mail Clíona Ní Shúilleabháin

LAI Informal Networking Evening

Wednesday, 10th December @ 6pmThe Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2

The Joint Committees of the A&SL Section and HSLG are holding the next event in the series of Informal Networking Evenings, a Joint Christmas Networking Evening to be held in the Royal Irish Academy on Wednesday, 10th December 2008. 

The theme for this year’s event is ‘Commemorating the LAI’s 80th Anniversary:  Celebrating Librarians Past, Present and  Future’.  The Joint Committees will host a Drinks Reception from 6pm.  Beatrice Doran (past-president of the LAI and formerly Librarian of the RCSI) has kindly accepted our invitation to speak on this year’s theme at 6.30pm. 

The aim of our Informal Networking Evenings is to provide members with the opportunity to meet other librarians and information professionals, and to share news, views and experiences.

RSVP by Wednesday 3rd December to Seán Hughes at:  aandsl.hslg@gmail.com 

Mass Digitisation Projects: Current Experience and Future Prospects

AMARC Winter Meeting

The British Library Conference Centre

Monday 15 December 2008

Mass Digitisation Projects: Current Experience and Future Prospects***


Contact : claire.breay@bl.uk

Effective coaching and mentoring techniques

10 December 2008
Kilmainham
HSLG

Further information here

Introduction to MARC 21

3/12/08 & 4/12/08

Library Council

Introduction to MARC 21

Dublin

New staff introduction

1/12/08

ISS

New staff introduction

TCD

Photoshop Workshop

2/12/08

ISS

Photoshop Workshop

TCD

Excel charts

2/12/08

ISS

Excel charts

TCD

Maintaining college websites - further steps

5/12/08

ISS

Maintaining college websites - further steps

TCD

SPSS - further steps

5/12/08

ISS

SPSS - further steps

TCD

SPSS for beginners

9/12/08

ISS

SPSS for beginners

TCD

Coaching and mentoring skills

1/12/08

HSLG

Coaching and mentoring skills

TBA

Introduction to supervisors role

18/12/08

Staff Office

Introduction to supervisors role

TCD

International digital curation conference

1/12/08 -3/12/08

CNI

International digital curation conference

Edinburgh

SCONUL Autumn conference

16/12/08


SCONUL Autumn conference

London

ANLTC Lessons in Leadership

ANLTC 2008/12 Lessons in Leadership programme

1st December 2008

Castleroy Park Hotel,
Castleroy,
Limerick.

ANLTC

College Safety, Health & Welfare Training Schedule 08/09

It is important that College personnel have adequate information, training and instruction to enable them to perform their work activities in a safe manner and to assist in the prevention of injury or ill-health in the workplace. The provision of various types of safety training to staff, postgraduate students and sometimes undergraduate students in College is a mandatory requirement under various pieces of Safety Health & Welfare legislation. The College Safety Office provides a number of various Safety Health and Welfare Training Courses on an annual basis to address these training requirements.

Courses include first aid, fire safety training, manual handling, office safety etc., please see the Director of Buildings website for full listings and further information.

Further information also available from Elaine Doorly at (896) 2887 or email

CAPSL Courses Michaelmas 2008

TCD's CAPSL Centre for Learning technology is running a selection of WebCT related workshops in September, details of which are available here

The following workshops will be held in Michaelmas Term 2008. Each Workshop will be held twice, on two separate days in the same week. Exact dates cannot be published at the moment. However if you are interested in attending any of these workshops please register your interest by email to clt@tcd.ie

Week beginning 13th Oct - eLearning - Effective Design
Week beginning 20th Oct - eLearning using WebCT
Week beginning 27th Oct - eLearning using WebCT
Week beginning 3rd Nov - Creating Accessible content for eLearning
Week beginning 10th Nov - Online Assignments and Assessments

Repeat courses
Week beginning 17th Nov - eLearning - Effective Design
Week beginning 24th Nov - eLearning using WebCT
Week beginning 1st Dec - eLearning using WebCT
Week beginning 8th Dec - Creating Accessible content for eLearning
Week beginning 15th Dec - Online Assignments and Assessments