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

New Issue of Irish Library News

July issue of Irish Library News available here

New Issue of GLINT

The latest issue of GLINT, newsletter from the Government Libraries Section of the Library Association of Ireland is now available.

The issue includes the following articles:


Official Publications on Government Department Websites by Johanna Archbold
Cardbox Database Software to update an Intranet by Mary Doyle
Publishing Government E-Information: GLS seminar by Joseph Donnelly
BIALL Annual Study Conference by Joseph Donnelly
Snippets

Tour of the Chester Beatty

24th July 2009
Dublin

The Cataloguing and Indexing Group of the LAI are organising a visit to the Chester Beatty Library on Friday the 24th of July. The event is free and will consist of a guided tour by the Western Collection Curator, Mr. Charles Horton, of the two current exhibitions, Arts of the Book and Sacred Traditions, followed by an opportunity to meet with library staff in the reading room.

Time: 24th July 2009, 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Location: Chester Beatty Library

Please note that numbers are limited but registration is very easy. Just go to the website below and click on “Create new Attendance”:
http://www.supersaas.com/schedule/LAICIG/Chester_Beatty

Rare Books Group Workshop

30th July 2009
TCD


This all-day workshop explores the difficulties facing Special Collections departments in these straitened times. Each session will be introduced by a short paper setting out areas for discussion. Among the speakers are:

Joseph Marshall, Edinburgh University Library
Siobhán Fitzpatrick, RIA
Evelyn Flanagan, UCD
Crónán Ó Doibhlin, UCC

Further information and booking form here

Umbrella 2009

14 - 15th July
Hertfordshire

The 9 separate streams listed below form the basis of the conference programme with a total of 56 sessions on offer.
1) Libraries as Spaces
Buildings focus, social/community spaces, joint use libraries inc virtual libraries & workplace info services
2) Our skills
Practical skills for users, & personalisation e.g. MyLibrary
3) The shock of the new - practice
Emerging trends, technologies, web 2.0/3.0 and beyond,
new ways of working in partnership and alone in practice
4) The shock of the new - theory
Emerging trends, technologies, web 2.0/3.0 and beyond,
new ways of working in partnership and alone in theory
5) Professional values
Evidence, Diversity, Ethics & the Research Base
6) Our professional future
Education, qualifications, professional bodies – what are they for in the 21st Century
7) Only Collect
Management of print & electronic collections materials, preservation conservation, exploitation, digitisation etc
8) The value of libraries: advocacy & funding
Leadership & Campaigning, influencing - success stories,
pitfalls and toolkits etc
9) Information skills for life
Information literacy & the legal framework users need + National Year of Reading review

Further information here

International Association of Music Libraries Annual Conference

5 - 10th July

Amsterdam

Programme

Registration Information

Conference Homepage