The Librarian's Skillbook Skill #2: Electronic Indexing

Following on from Skill#1: Digitizing, the next skill in the Librarian's Skillbook is knowing how to index and catalogue items that have been digitized. This will make these items more meaningful and accessible to users. In my own work I am actually using Heritage Cirqa (ISOxford) to catalogue items from the archives. I realise this is probably not the best tool to use but I use Heritage as a main library catalogue and I wanted users to be able to conduct a single search to find items of interest in both the library and the archives. I am finding it a challenge as cataloguing something like a handwritten letter is totally different from cataloguing a book. I am learning that it is important to keep collections together as they are donated then cross reference them using keywords and dates.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone else who is using Heritage within an archive.

CILIP Mentor Training, Loughborough, 18 February 2014

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a background to mentoring, a basic framework for conducting mentoring both long and short term.

The focus of the event is to enable participants to develop effectively as mentors in the context of the CILIP professional registration scheme.
Mentor training is a requisite for becoming a CILIP Mentor and this course is suitable for all CILIP members who have recently registered as CILIP mentors or are thinking of registering.

Do come along and find out more about the mentoring scheme.

EVENT DETAILS

A one day workshop provided on behalf of the East Midland’s Regional Member Network of CILIP.

Date of Training: 18 February 2014

Time: 9:30 to 4:30, with the half-day CILIP scheme only session from 2:00pm to 4:30pm

Venue Location: Loughborough Library, Granby Street, Loughborough, LE11 3DZ
Here is a location map for the library

Facilitator(s): Carol Brooks E-mail: Carol Brooks

COST OF EVENT
FREE to currently registered members of CILIP.

Non-CILIP members: £50 (inc. VAT) for the morning session on mentoring skills.

Lapsed CILIP members: £50 (inc. VAT) for the full day's session.

REFRESHMENTS AND LUNCH DETAILS Tea and coffee will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

To book please go to this link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EMidsMentorTraining

East Midlands Regional Member Network

Members Day

Derby QUAD

Market Square, Derby DE1 3AS

March 19^th 2014  9.30 (10.00 start) – 3.30

Speakers:

·    Kay Grieves and Michelle Halpin, University of Sunderland – Adventures in Conversation; experimenting with strategic marketing and cultural change to nurture positive customer relationships.

Kay and Michelle will also lead a workshop session How do you like your eggs in the morning? A simple 7 step toolkit for creating strategic marketing plans that really work.

 

·       Annie Mauger, Chief Executive, CILIP

     You are now the East Midlands Regional Member Network

     CILIP developments - governance changes etc

     Launch of new Professional Registration

The AGM of East Midlands Regional Network will take place at 12 noon – members will not be charged if they wish to attend the AGM only.

 

There will be a charge of £10 (payable on the day)

To reserve a place, please email the information below to: kath_owen@yahoo.co.uk.

The closing date for applications is March 1^st 2014
 

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East Midlands Regional Member Network

Members’ Day Booking Form

Name: 

Job Title:

Employer: 

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There will be a charge of £10.00 to be paid on the day.

If you require a receipt to reclaim this through petty cash from your employer; please ask for a receipt when you pay.

If you require an invoice for your employer please provide a name and e-mail for the invoice to be sent out:

Do you have any access requirements? 

Do you have any dietary requirements? 

Closing date for applications is March 1st 2014.

Please note that you will not receive an immediate acknowledgment of your booking. This may not be sent out until the beginning of March

 

The Librarian's Skillbook: Skill 1 - Digitization

Happy New Year everyone!

So as I wrote in a previous post, I'm going to try and work through The Librarian's Skillbook: 51 essential career skills for information professionals by Deborah Hunt and David Grossman (2013). It is an American book, but that might be good for me as I work at a study abroad college owned by an American University.

Skill 1: Digitization.

Hunt and Grossman urge us to try and get some experience with working on a digitization project - large or small. I have an ideal opportunity here, as I have just started cataloguing our archives which include a variety of documents - hand written letters, photographs, maps. A small number of these have already been scanned and are stored on an internal server, but I would like to look at ways to open up access to a wider audience. Creating a blog maybe? I am particularly impressed with this example from Abingdon School http://www.abingdon.org.uk/63objects/.

Is anyone else working on a similar project?

LD

Visit to West Bridgford Library - Tuesday 28th January 2014

East Midlands Regional Member Network

Visit to West Bridgford Library

Tuesday 28^th January 2014 2.00 – 4.00p.m.

Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 6AT

 

At a time when most public library authorities (including Nottinghamshire) are suffering reductions in budgets, politicians saw fit to continue with the long awaited replacement of West Bridgford Library which opened in March 2013.

Come and visit this impressive building and hear what local staff have to say about it.

This a good opportunity to network with colleagues and pick up some new ideas.

Please note that that although there is plenty of parking next to the library it is only for 2 hours and has the keenest set of traffic wardens  imaginable.  The session will therefore run strictly to time. There is good public transport from the city centre and the station is about 20 minutes walk away. There is limited street parking in the vicinity.

Please inform Kath Owen kath_owen@yahoo.co.uk if you wish to join us. The visit is free and tea/coffee will be provided.