Activities
What do we do?
The 2007 ADLG seminar was held on the 27th September entitled "Library information service survival guide". The event attracted 43 attendees from across the Defence, Commercial and Industrial sector. Available presentations can be seen at the above link.
Visits
The ADLG has a full and ongoing programme of visits. Recent trips have included:
- Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough click here for article
- City Business Library & Guildhall Library click here for article
- Battle of Britain Operation Room, RAF Uxbridge click here for article
- MoD Whitehall
- National Archives
- British Airways Museum
- RAF Museum
- National Army Museum
- Croydon Airport
- British Library
- Imperial War Museum
- Meteorological Office
- Gatwick Airport
- Civil Aviation Authority
Seminars and courses
The ADLG organises valuable learning opportunities.
In September 2007 The ADLG held a Seminar at CILIP HQ with the theme of how to ensure the survival of your Library Information service. Please see the headline link above to see the available papers and presentations.
In September 2006 the ADLG held a Knowledge Management event at PricewaterhouseCoopers. To read a report of the event please click here.
An over-subscribed and very well received seminar on "Managing e-collections in the specialist sector" took place in 2005.
ADLG also ran a seminar at the 2005 Umbrella conference on Acquiring and Maintaining Specialist Knowledge. The presentation given can be viewed here.
An active seminar and course programme has included topics such as "Electronic Information : Success / Failure" a seminar for existing and new entrants to the profession working in aerospace and defence-related libraries, "Online Searching for Aerospace and Defence Librarians", "Sources of Technical Reports", "New ways of promoting and delivering information within the organisation" (on the Internet and Intranets).
Our presenters are experienced people from a wide range of institutions and our events are well-organised and good value for money.
Job Shadowing
Through the ADLG Committee job shadowing can be arranged whereby individuals spend time in another library and information environment. For more information on the scheme please click here.
Celia Waters, Chair of the ADLG, undertook a period of job shadowing in Grenoble, France. To read about her experiences please click here.
AGM
The 2006 AGM took place at FAST (Farnborough Air Sciences Trust) on the 16th March. A full report is available in the Summer 2006 issue of the ADLG Newsletter.
Future events
We'd be interesting in finding out what you want from the ADLG in terms of seminars and visits. If you have any suggestions that you would like to make please contact Ben Chan.
Updated: 27 August 2008