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ADVANCE NOTIFICATION - A date for your diaries!

Date: 24th January 2008 - Joint HLG, IFMHealthcare and LfN study day

SUCCESS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Are you interested in Project Management but want to know more?
Do you have the prospect of running a project, LARGE or small, looming on your horizon?
Are you seeking to enhance your existing skills?

If the answer is YES to any of the above then the 24th JANUARY 2008 is a date for your diaries.

The HLG Professional Development Panel, IFM Healthcare and Libraries for Nursing are offering a joint study day event

"SUCCESS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT" - An informative and practical workshop for those wanting to improve their project management skills.

To be held at:
The Conference Room
Clifford Whitworth Building
University of Salford

The day is aimed at information professionals from the health and social care sectors, and will provide the opportunity to hear from experts in the field of project management and participate in workshop activites designed to give practical experience in this challenging area of our work.

Speakers include:

Paul Waters - Project Manager for University of Salford's "Realizing our Vision" Project.

Jacky Berry -Librarian at The British Medical Association- "People and Project Management"

Andrew Booth and Anthea Sutton - from the ScHARR FOLIO team, University of Sheffield.

Further details and booking information can be found on the IFMH website:
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/studyday0108.html

Recent Events

LfN Spring study day:
Making Web 2.0 work for you and your library
- the use of Blogs, Wikis and RSS in Health libraries.

Date: Friday 15 June 2007, 10am-3.30pm

Venue: Sheffield Hallam University (Owen Building, City Campus).

Programme:
Mark Clowes (Sheffield Hallam University)
"Web 2.0 - the possibilities - General overview of web 2.0 technologies."
Presentation

Bernice Baker (eHealth network)
"Learning is fun with Web 2.0 - Presentation about the use of the options for learning/development when using 'Blended' approaches which combine Wikis with Blogs and List Serves."
Presentation

Tom Roper (sometime Information Resources Development Coordinator, Brighton and Sussex Medical School and former HLG chair):
"Ten years in an open-necked shirt: blogging for fun and profit, 1997-2007? - An overview of blogging and some of its serious (and some less serious) applications for libraries."
Presentation
Handout

David Brunt and Heather Gardner (Primary Care Current Awareness Service, The Improvement Network, East Midlands)
"Practical library applications for Web 2.0 - Workshop/Hands-on session demonstrating PCCAS and the use of wikis in the library services"
Presentation

Anne Welsh (DrugScope)
"Blogging for the Bewildered. Use your current skill-set to create information-rich blogs and social bookmark sets at high-speed"
Presentation

Umbrella 2007

Friday 29 June 2007 at 11.15 am

Joint LfN/IFM Healthcare (under banner of HLG) slot on theme of Information Literacy.

Speakers:

Dr Christine Urquhart: Information literacy – and what we tend to conveniently forget.

Jean Newman and Emma Farrow: Information literacy and international collaboration work with Partnerships in Health Information (Phi).

Updated: 03 January 2008