Last chance to book for this year’s Gregynog Colloquium – bookings must be in by 30th May.
The conference starts on Monday 11th June! We’ve an excellent programme lined up, and would like to encourage as many to attend as possible.
Find out more: http://gregynog.smu.ac.uk/
CILIP Wales held a very successful conference in Cardiff on 17-18 May.
The key theme of leadership was interspersed throughout most of the sessions during the two days.
For an interesting and useful report on the two days, have a look at Alyson Tyler’s blog post.
Bookings are now open for the first CILIP ARLG Conference.
Newcastle University, 25-27 June 2012
The biennial CILIP CoFHE and UC&R Conference has become a significant date in the academic library professional’s diary. It provides the opportunity to share expertise, experience and knowledge in one of the most challenging and rapidly changing sectors of the profession. The two groups have always worked well together and have always been closely aligned. Now. of course, CoFHE and UC&R have formally combined to form the Academic and Research Libraries Group (ARLG), making this sixth joint study conference all the more relevant.
The conference will examine the key role that academic libraries and their staff play in both the learning cycle of the student and the wider demands of the institutions they serve. There will be wide ranging plenary sessions from the professions’ leaders and influential voices:
* John Hogan, Registrar at Newcastle University
* Tony Durcan, Director of Culture, Libraries and Lifelong Learning at Newcastle City Council
Another popular feature of the joint study conference is the practitioner led workshops which all delegates are encouraged to take part in. This year we have over thirty such workshops for delegates to choose from, under the headings:
* Student Experience
* Skilling the workforce for the future
* Collaboration and partnership
* Expectations in a Digital World
* Measuring Impact and Quality
Details of the full workshop programme and the booking form can be accessed here
Re-‐skilling for Research: An investigation into the role and skills of subject and liaison librarians required to effectively support the evolving information needs of researchers
RLUK has published a major report by Mary Auckland on the changing needs of researchers and the effect on the subject/liaison role within libraries.
As research activities evolve, research support must evolve with them. RLUK has been keen to determine what the new requirements of researchers are, and how best these needs can be met by the library. We want to place the needs of researchers in the context of the libraries current offering, and look at how we must change to fulfil the new demands placed upon us.
This report, Re-skilling for Research, takes us a long way to mapping these requirements. It looks in detail at researchers’ information needs and begins to outline the skills and knowledge that are required to meet those needs. The Report offers a comparison of different models of library support for researchers, with valuable comparisons of current job descriptions. Finally, issues around the training opportunities for subject librarians to acquire the additional skills and knowledge they will need to fulfill their new roles are explored.
Download the report: http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/re-skilling-research
Just a reminder of the dates this year: 11 to 15 June.
Thanks to Alyson Tyler for this notification.
As in previous years, CyMAL is providing a variety of grants to librarians in Wales to help improve the skills, qualifications and confidence of the library workforce in Wales.
Workforce development is an important aspect of the Libraries Inspire strategy (2012-16). Investing in the workforce will help improve the quality of services for customers.
For full details, please read the document here (scroll down for the Library Workforce Develoment Grants document). The path is CyMAL website / Grants / Innovation and Development Grants 2012-13/ Library Workforce Development Grants.
If you have any queries please contact Alyson (alyson.tyler@wales.gsi.gov.uk) or training and development adviser Denise Lavis (denise.lavis@wales.gsi.gov.uk) or 0300 062 2111.
Higher education libraries have an important role to play in supporting higher education in further education, so each year WHELF organises an event for HE and FE staff – Welsh Collaboration in Action – to enable participants to share experiences, get up to date on recent developments and develop individual and shared programmes of action for the future.
This year’s event will be held on 26th June at the new City Campus, University of Wales, Newport.
This year’s programme will contain a session on Inductions for HE students and a session on the use of social media tools to share information, news & support with/for HE students. We are really keen to hear from any of you who would consider sharing your good practice and ideas with FE and HE colleagues for either of the sessions.
Please contact Ann Cross across@glam.ac.uk or Carolyn Howe chowe@cavc.ac.uk if you would like to share your good work at the event.
RLUK seeks to commission for the period of 12 months a Unique and Distinctive Collections (UDC) Project Manager (part-time, £35,000 at 1/5) to coordinate the implementation of the Unique and Distinctive Collections strand of the RLUK Strategic Plan 2011-2014. The officer will ideally be seconded from a research library, will have experience of working with unique and distinctive collections, and be confident working in an academic environment.
This is an exciting, rare opportunity to conduct research, analysis and outreach in the context of some of the finest collections in the UK and Ireland, with impact both at home and internationally.
Job Description and Person Specification:
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/rluk-seeks-fill-unique-and-distinctive-collections-project-manager-post
The deadline for applications is 1 September 2011.
Any queries should initially be addressed to:
Mike Mertens
Deputy Director
RLUK
Email: mike.mertens@rluk.ac.uk
Glyndŵr University’s Foundation Degree in Library and Information Practice is recruiting for the September 2011 intake which will be held during the following weeks:
w/c 12th September 2011
w/c 31st October 2011
w/c 6th February 2012
w/c 14th May 2012
The course comprises eight modules and runs over two years part-time.
Each year consists of four modules with each module run over a one week block.
Modules include: Information as a core product; customer relationship management in library and information services; Library 2.0 and key management skills for the library and information professional.
Course fees are £995 per year with the additional cost of accommodation. A bursary may be available for the first year from CyMAL: Museums Libraries and Archives Wales, for those students domiciled in Wales.
A short description of the course is given at http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/en/Undergraduatecourses/LibraryandInformationPractice/ and you can download an application form at http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/en/Howtoapply/Part-timeundergraduatecourses/TheFile,10472,en.pdf
If you require any further information about the course please do not hesitate to contact Nicola Watkinson at nicolaw@glyndwr.ac.uk or Paul Jeorrett at p.jeorrett@glyndwr.ac.uk
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We are delighted to publish the programme for this year’s WHELF/HEWIT Colloquium taking place at Gregynog between 13th – 17th June. This year’s programme is a varied mix of library and IT topics ranging from the strategic to the operational, with something to suit all tastes. We have succeeded in our aim of keeping the prices as reasonable as possible and have therefore been able to keep them broadly the same as last year.
We would therefore urge colleagues to spread the word and to book their places for the colloquium as soon as possible. The last date for taking bookings will be 20th May.
We look forward to seeing you at Gregynog. Here is the link to the website: http://gregynog.glam.ac.uk/
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