Chairing Meetings Effectively

Date: 1 November 2018
Time: 10.30-11.30am
Venue: UL Main Building, IT Training Room, Ground Floor (Near Staff Entrance)

Apparently the average British worker will sit through 6,239 meetings in their career and executives consider more than 67% of meetings to be a failure. I can’t find the source to credit these statistics, but having sat through many meetings, this sounds plausible. The meeting Chair therefore has a big responsibility to try to make it run as effectively as they can.

So if you’ve been asked to Chair a meeting and you’ve never done it before or you’ve been a Meeting Chair for years and think you could do it better, this could be the session for you.

On 1st November, Sheila Wotherspoon (Strategic Support Office) and Liz Goddard (Learning and Development Manager), both from Cambridge University Libraries, will be sharing their hints and tips and encouraging you to share your own.  You probably know more than you think you do!

Course leaders: Sheila Wotherspoon  & Liz Goddard

Places: 14

Cost: Free

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Time management

Date: 8 August 2018
Time: 9.00- 10.30am
Venue: Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library

This course on Time Management will help you to hone your skills and hopefully gain new ones. We will be sharing a plethora of hints and tips from an array of Librarians in different departments, before having a course wide discussion where you can also share your time management tricks with others.

Please note: This course will be cancelled if booking numbers are insufficient.

Course leaders: Holly Pines & Rose Giles

Places: 20

Cost: Free

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LiT courses for 2018

These courses will open for booking approximately three weeks before the course date. Please check back regularly, as more classes will be added soon.

Course schedule
Course	Date
Usability testing (Strand: User experience) – Helen Murphy and David Marshall	23-Feb-18
Digital humanities (Strand: Technology) – Andy Corrigan	1, 15 & 22 Mar-18
Archives for librarians (Strand: Library management) – Elizabeth Ennion-Smith	8-Mar-18
Easter App Hunt (Strand: Communications for outreach)	14-Mar-18 to 18-Apr-2018
Easter App Hunt: Twitter for Librarians (Strand: Communications for outreach) – Georgina Cronin and Claire Sewell	19-Mar-18
Poster design (Strand: Communications for outreach) – Ryan Cronin	10-Apr-18
Qualtrics (Strand: Practitioner research) – Sarah Burton and Claudia Luna	20-Apr-18
Working with Students with Mental Health Conditions in the Library (Library management) – Kirsty Wayland & Rachel Demery	17-May-18
HEA information session (Library management) – Meg Tait	22-May-18
Embedded librarianship (Strand: User experience) – Kirsten Lamb	31-May-18
Teaching skills: peer support  – Kirstie Preest, Isla Kuhn, Catherine Reid & Jo Harcus	25-Jun-18 (Session 1) & 27-Jun (Session 2) & either 29 Jun (Session 3a) or 2 Jul (Session 3b)
Managing donations (Strand: Library management) – Pat Aske	26-Jun-18
Digital preservation (Strand: Technology) – Lee Pretlove	3-Jul-18
Using special collections materials in exhibitions (Strand: Communications for outreach) – Kathryn McKee	17-Jul-18
Cataloguing DVDs (Strand: Cataloguing) – Colin Higgins	19-Sep-18
Chairing meetings (Strand: Qualifications) – Sheila Wotherspoon and Liz Goddard	1 Nov-18
Decolonising library collections and practices (Strand: Qualifications) – Various speakers	28 Nov-18
Backward design (Strand: User education)	7 Dec-18
HEA writing retreat (Strand: Qualifications)	10 Dec-18

Ebooks hands-on workshops for librarians

Dates: Monday 18 September: 10am-12pm & Thursday 21 September: 2.30pm – 4.30pm.
Please note: these are two identical sessions – attendees need only come to one.

Venue: UL Training room

This hands-on workshop will explore which ebooks are available at the University, how to search for them and how to use the facilities offered by different ebook platforms, such as searching within the ebook, adding notes and bookmarks and downloading chapters.

This is a self-paced workshop aimed at newcomers to ebooks or those looking for a refresher in the basics. There will be plenty of opportunity for hands-on practice with a variety of ebook platforms and librarians will be on hand to help answer your or your students’  ebook-related questions.

Course leaders: Catherine Reid, Lindsay Jones, Jayne Kelly

Places: 12

Cost: Free

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Using Special Collections Materials in Exhibitions

Date: 18th July 2017
Time: 9.30am-12.00pm
Venue: St John’s College Library

Using special collections materials in exhibitions: an informal presentation (with discussion) on planning and design, objectives and evaluation, choice of exhibits, and writing exhibition text, will be followed by a practical session covering the physical display of rare books.

Places: 12

Cost: Free

Course leader: Kathryn McKee

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Cataloguing and managing film collections

Date:  20 June 2017
Time: 10am-12pm
Venue: Ramsden Room, St Catharines College

This course will provide an introduction to film librarianship. In particular, it will explain why and how to develop film collections, and how to catalogue and classify them.

Course leaders: Colin Higgins, Stephanie Palek, Anna Pensaert.

Places: 12

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Cataloguing rare books: skills and sources

Date: Friday 9 June 2017
Time: 2-5pm
Venue: Milstein Room, University Library

An introduction to rare books cataloguing skills and resources, covering the nature of book production in the early modern period, printed and online resources relating to provenance and bindings, and basic features of rare books (signatures, catchwords, and so on) of which an understanding is needed for cataloguing.

This course is aimed at librarians who may have a general knowledge of cataloguing practice but no specific knowledge of rare books, and will not cover the details of cataloguing standards like RDA or AACR2, but rather the primary skills needed to understand and catalogue rare books.

Course leader: Liam Sims

Places: 15

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Library annual reports: show and tell

Date: Friday 28 April
Time: 2.00-3.30pm
Venue: Media Call Centre (142), Raised Faculty Building, First Floor

This is an informal opportunity for Librarians to get together and compare and contrast Annual Reports whilst sharing ideas of presentation and good practice.  If you feel comfortable, please bring a copy of your own Annual Report along!

Note: This is not a taught training session but a forum for discussion.

Number of places: 14

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Networking for Librarians

Date: Tuesday 4th April
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Venue: Milstein Room, UL

Learn all about networking at events as a Librarian with Laura Greenfield, Associate Director of Fundraising at the University Library.

This will be an opportunity to think about how to network, why it’s useful, and how to make it as pain free as possible. Laura Greenfield will lead a session including: thinking about what you want to get from a networking event, introducing yourself and your work, ending a conversation, and following up. There will be opportunities to practice networking – and biscuits! Please bring along  business cards if you have some.

Please note: This course will be cancelled if fewer than 12 places are booked.

Course leader: Laura Greenfield

Places: 20

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Archives for Librarians

Date: Friday 21^st April, 2:00-4:00pm
Venue: St. Catherine’s, Ramsden Room

This course is an introduction to archives for those without an archival background. The course will cover the basics of cataloguing, storage and how researchers use archives. There will also be a small display of archive material from the St. Catharine’s College Archive.

Course leader: Elizabeth Ennion-Smith

Places: 20

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