Staff Development Programme 2009

TCD Staff Office will be running the following courses over the summer/autumn:

• Writing effective reports
• Assertiveness Skills
• Effective Time Management
• Inside Out (Stress Management, Personal Effectiveness, Work/Life Balance)
• Conflict Handling
• Introduction to the supervisor's role
• Facilitation skills
• Managing meetings and minute taking
• SMART reading
• Presentation skills
• Managing a project
• Office management skills
• Supervisory management
• Career development

Further information and dates, etc available here

Critical Appraisal Skills Course

21st August 2009
Dublin

The CPD working group of the HSLG are holding the course “Critical Appraisal Skills” which will take place on Friday, 21st August 2009 in the Health Research Board, 42– 47 Knockmaun House, Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2. To apply for a place on this course, please contact the course administrator, Anne Madden at anne.madden@ucd.ie

Places are limited so you are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.

Further information and booking form here

Course Details

Course Code: CPD0902

Title: Critical Appraisal Skills

Venue: Health Research Board, 42-47 Knockmaun House, Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2

Date: Friday, 21st August 2009

Time: 10am – 4pm

Cost: Standard rate - 250 Euro
LAI/HSLG members 225 Euro
Student /Unemployed rate – 100 Euro

Effective coaching and mentoring techniques

10 December 2008
Kilmainham
HSLG

Further information here

CILIP - Effective Relationships

01/10/2008

CILIP

Effective Relationships: the way forward for library and information professionals

Sunderland

Innovation in Customer Service

ANLTC
October 2008
National Library

Details as they become available with be posted on ANLTC's website

A&SL Section Informal Networking Evening

The committee of the Academic & Special Libraries Section delighted to announce that the next event in the series of informal networking evenings is a visit to the refurbished Library & Business Information Centre in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. Followed by refreshments in Jack O’Rourke’s, Main St. Blackrock. Co. Dublin.

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

Thursday, 28 August 2008 at 6pm.
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co.Dublin.
RSVP Eva Hornung by Tuesday, 26 August 2008.

Introduction to the visual arts

Trinity Arts Workshop would like to invite all Trinity Staff to participate a new course in drawing and painting starting 25th of August. It will run for 8 weeks until beginning of October.
This course is an introduction to the Visual Arts, as well as offering practical skills, participants will be given a grounding in the history of Modern Art (20 century “–ism’s” from Realism to Post-Modernism).


The course will start on Monday 25th of August at 5.45 pm, the time is to be set to suit the majority of people. Classes will run for approximately 1,5hours, once a week. The cost will be 5 euro per attended class just to cover materials provided and electricity bills for Pearse Street studio.


For further information please contact Beata P. Daly.
TAW, 191 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Work-Life Balance

The TCD Employee Assistance Programme - PPC Online -can offer you support to improve your work-life balance.

Many of us have increasingly busy lives, juggling several activities and responsibilities, sometimes it can be easy to become absorbed in one aspect of our lives and miss out on others. PPC Online provides advice and useful resources to help you find the right work-life balance to suit you. It covers areas such as:-
- Balancing work and family; Managing time; Making time for the things you want to do; Letting people know when you need help ….. And many more. Why not try the five step programme “Work-Life Balance”

To take a look visit www.ppconline.info , username: trinity; password: college

UCD Occasional Courses

The School of Information and Library Studies is now making available access to its postgraduate modules to individuals outside of the SILS postgraduate programmes. These modules are aimed at individuals who already have a library qualification, or who have a degree-level qualification and who are working as a librarian or information professional and who seek further education to continue their professional development.

Further information from UCD's brochure and the departmental website.

Sconul's Hot Topic Page

SCONUL deals with a range of topics through the work of its various groups. These topics identify anticipated trends and issues for information services and support collaborative sharing and development of good practice around the core interests and services of SCONUL. They are listed below. Each topic has an introduction, links to its relevant publications and papers and also a link to the appropriate group. For more information please contact us. Link to the page here.

Current Topics are:

• E-learning
• E-research
• Information Literacy
• Performance Improvement
• Scholarly Communications
• Space planning

Possible Courses

The Staff Development Committee is gathering information as to the level of interest that exists for the following two possible courses. If you would be interested in attending a course of this type, could you please indicate this via email specifying which course/s you would consider useful. As always any further suggestions or comments anyone might have are more than welcome.

The committee's email address is libsdc @ tcd.ie

The Reference Interview
A four-week, web based, instructor led course Run by the RUSA (Reference and User Services Association, affilitated with the American Library Association)
10th Sept - 17th Oct


Team Work Skills
Run by ANLTC To be held towards the end of the year, in Cork


Please remember to inform the librarian's office, for the purposes of flexi-time, if you are going to be attending any training courses or events. A detailed procedure for course application will be available online soon.