Introduction To Financial Planning (Professional Qualifications Series) [Event Ref. No. TG1/QSAPR] (4:00PM - 6:00PM)
Please note that this event is also advertised in the 'Professional Qualifications Support Workshops' section of our events calendar.

cpd25's programme of ten two-hour workshops is devised primarily to support CILIP Chartership and ACLIP candidates. However, many of the events in the programme are highly relevant to staff working as Library Assistants, Senior Library Assistants and so on. The events are aimed, therefore, at all levels of library staff - who may or may not be seeking Certification or Chartership, but who wish to further their professional skills and development.

Places are available on either the whole series (£160 for cpd25 members, £240 for external organisations) or for individual workshops (£30 for cpd25 members, £50 otherwise).

The event reference number for booking a place on the whole series is TG1/QSALL. Please refer to each workshop's individual description for their individual event reference numbers.

Aim
To understand the importance of sound financial management, sources of funding and the factors which influence financial decision making

Objectives
By the end of the session participants will:
1. Understand both the institutional and the library strategic planning context
2. Appreciate the stages of the budget planning cycle
3. Understand how to allocate funds to resources and services within budget constraints
4. Understand how to use budget modelling to make staffing changes within financial constraints
5. Understand the main elements of financial control

Methods
A mixture of presentations, discussion and practical budget planning exercises using Excel

Programme Outline
* Importance of Financial Planning

* Budget Planning

* The Budget Cycle

* Budget Preparation (practical)

* Budget Allocation (practical)

* Financial Control.

Pre Session Requirements
This is an interactive workshop with a range of group activities. No financial skills are required but an ability to use simple Excel spreadsheets will be helpful, but not essential.

Venue: Room LG39, Maughan Library, Kings College London; http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/libraries/maughan.aspx

Please note that there are limited places available for this event.

Cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day, the full fee will be charged.

To book please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk

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M25 2012 Annual Conference: Bricks & Bytes: Blending Virtual & Physical Space (9:30AM - 4:30PM)
The M25 2012 Annual Conference will be held at Ravensbourne's newly built and stunning campus, next to the O2 in London on Thursday 19th April. The Conference is very much open to all M25 member institutions and, we hope, of interest to non-M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries members.

The theme is Bricks and Bytes: blending virtual and physical space with presentations on educational and technological developments and on designing Library spaces for students and researchers.

Tours of Ravensbourne will also be available, a building with an innovative open plan design and winner of a 2011 RIBA Award for London, and there will be time for networking and exchanging ideas.

Agenda:

9:30 to 10:30: Registration and Coffee

Please note the AGM (for M25 Representatives only) will take place from 9:45am to 10:45am at Ravensbourne.

10:30: Chair’s Welcome

10:40: The Keynote Address by Professor Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost (Education), UCL.

11:10 to 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 to 12:30:

• From Bricks and Mortar Boards to Conversational Learning Networks, Dr Lizzie Jackson, Academic Development Manager at Ravensbourne College

• Future Research Spaces, Louise Doolan, Reference Services Manager, The British Library

12:30 to 1:30: Lunch Break

12:30pm to 1:30pm - Tours of Ravensbourne Library and Building

1:30 to 2:45:

• RLUK Affordable Subscriptions for Periodicals Initiative, Phil Sykes, Chair RLUK and University of Liverpool Librarian

• E-books: the JISC perspective, Anna Vernon, E-Books for FE Project Manager/Licensing Manager, JISC Collections

• M25/MLAG, Rupert Williams, Head of Science Museum Library and Archives and MLAG Chair

• SEARCH25, Graham Seaman, SEARCH25 Developer

2:45 to 3:15: Shared Experiences Breakout Sessions over a Coffee Break

3:15 to 4:15: Designing Library Space

• Emma Bull, Director of Library Services, Queen Mary College

• Ann Cummings, Library Services Director, Brunel University

• Elaine Cooper, Drill Hall Library Manager, Universities at Medway with Virginia Malone, Campus Information Services Manager, University of Greenwich

16:15 to 16:45: Additional Tour of Ravensbourne Library and Building

Venue: The Walker Room, Ravensbourne, Greenwich Peninsula, 6 Penrose Way, London SE10 0EW. For more information on Ravensbourne and its location please see www.rave.ac.uk .

To book a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via m25sgadmin@lse.ac.uk

There is one FREE place per M25 member institution (for Director or nominated representative).

Additional places for M25 members and non-M25 members are at a nominal fee of only £50 (VAT is not applicable) which includes lunch and refreshments.

Please note, cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a 'no-show' on the day, the full fee will be charged.


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Feedback And Difficult Conversation: A Half Day Workshop [Event Ref. No. TG4/FEED] (9:00AM - 1:00PM)
* Please note that this workshop complements the workshop on Change Management which is being held on 23rd May 2012 *

Giving effective feedback and managing difficult conversations are key performance management skills that many find challenging. This workshop, facilitated by LEVELheaded, will explore why these skills are so important, how to improve them and provide a practical toolkit of techniques for managers and supervisors to take back to the work place.

Programme:

9.00-9.30: Registration and coffee

9.30-9.45: Introduction

9.45-10.25: Session 1- Feedback principles: What is feedback for, why should you bother and what happens if you don’t give it?

10.25-11.05: Session 2 - Difficult conversations: What makes them difficult? How to prepare and how to keep the conversation on track

11.05-11.20: Coffee

11.20-12.00: Session 3 – A 3 step model of feedback.

12.00-12.40: Session 4 – Practice your difficult conversation in a safe environment

12.40-1.00: Action planning and end comments.

Venue: The Hardy Room at the London Mathematical Society, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS; Website: www.lms.ac.uk

Please note that there are limited places available for this event.

To book a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk

Cost: £95 for cpd25 members and £145 for other institutions.

Cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day, the full fee will be charged.


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A Library? Yes, But Not As You Know It - This Event Is The Fifth Annual Cpd25 Event Designed For Those Who Supervise Staff, Services Or Both [Event Ref. No. TG4/SLA] (10:00AM - 4:00PM)
This event is the fifth annual cpd25 event designed for those who supervise staff, services or both.

The Audience: Senior Library Assistants, Information Services Supervisors, Library Assistants, Information Assistants (or their equivalent).

Following on from the previous successful events, the day will enable participants to discover some of the current developments in HE libraries and how they may impact on both a local and fundamental level. The day’s overall theme is around the changes to activities seen as quintessentially ‘library’.

Programme:

9.30-10.00: Coffee and registration

10.00-10.30: Keynote speech Angus Brown (User Services, Imperial College)

10.30-10.45: Break

10.45-12.30: Visits Birkbeck/Senate House

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-14.15: Themed breakouts

14.15-14.30: Tea and cakes

14.30-15.15: Themed breakouts

15.15-16.00: Closing & feedback - Antony Loveland, Head of Library Services, Central School of Speech & Drama.

The breakout sessions will involve attendees working in small groups to discuss the following developments:

* Ditching the desk
* Automatic renewals
* Paperless future

The feedback from each group will be arranged so as to be quick, painless and efficient – in keeping with the tone of the event.

Speaker Details:

Angus Brown
Angus Brown currently leads user services, marketing (including the library website) and enquiry and disability support at Imperial College London. Previously, he worked in a number of roles at Kings’ College London, including cataloguer, issue desk supervisor and readers advisor (Life sciences and medicine). Angus’s first library job was as library assistant in Aberdeen Public Libraries where he worked at both branch and mobile libraries. Angus is a member of M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries Steering Group, the SCONUL Focus Editorial Board and has a particular interest in library spaces and design.

Antony Loveland
Antony is a Chartered Librarian who has been working in HE libraries for over 12 years. He is currently Head of Library Services at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he is responsible for the strategic planning and operational delivery of the service. He has also been a member of cpd25 since 2003 and took over as its Chair in 2011.

Venue: The Hardy Room at the London Mathematical Society, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS; Website: www.lms.ac.uk

Please note that there are limited places available for this event.

To book a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk

Cost: £125 for cpd25 members and £190 for other institutions.

Cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day, the full fee will be charged.


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Employment Law In A Nutshell - A One-day Course For HE Managers [Event Ref. No. TG2/EMPLW] (9:30AM - 4:30PM)
As a line manager, working in a library, do you ever wish you knew more about employment law? Would you like to be more confident in addressing any contractual issues that might arise with part-time staff or fixed- term staff? How about issues concerning maternity leave or flexible working?

If you would like to learn a little more about the law relating to these matters then this interactive workshop could be for you.

The workshop will be given by Philip Lott. Philip is a specialist and practitioner in Employment Law. His ‘day job’ is as Senior Solicitor to a major teachers’ and lecturers’ union - the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). His background is in local government and he has spent three years as a full-time legal adviser to a University.

In recent years, he has designed and presented many lively and informative courses and training events for managers and HR staff in Further and Higher Education. Participants find his interactive and energetic approach both enjoyable and effective. His clients include: UCEA (the Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association), the UPA (the Universities Personnel Association) as well as many individual old and new Universities.

The seminar will include studies on:

Morning Session:
o Individual employment rights
o Dealing with misconduct/dismissals
o Handling disciplinary meetings
o Giving warnings
o Settling disputes
o Industrial action
o Bullying at work/stress claims
o Dealing with intermittent/long term illness
o Contracts and collective agreements

Afternoon Session:
o Equal Opportunities - who is protected?
o Appointments/interviews
o The rights of part-time staff
o Complaints of harassment
o Requests for part-time/flexible working
o Termination/non-renewal of fixed-term contracts
o The rules on age discrimination/compulsory retirement
o Religion and belief discrimination
o The rights of disabled employees

By the end of the workshop participants will:
• Have gained a practical understanding of the legal principles which govern everyday work and staff-management issues.
• Be able to identify when further advice should be sought.

PROGRAMME:

9.30am: Arrival & welcome

9.45am: Employment Law Quiz/Workshop
A light-hearted and inter-active introduction to the key issues and principles of which Managers need to be aware. We will look at case studies on:
o Dealing with misconduct/dismissals
o Individuals’ employment rights
o Handling disciplinary meetings
o Giving warnings
o Settling disputes

11.00am: Break (tea, coffee and biscuits)

11.15am Continuing our examination of real-life issues, we will consider
o Industrial action
o Bullying at work/stress claims
o Dealing with intermittent/long term illness
o Contracts/variations to contracts and collective agreements

12.00pm: Individual Employment Rights
To reinforce the knowledge gained from the case studies, an easily-accessible overview of all the main employment rights, from unfair dismissal and redundancy rights, to health and safety and time off entitlements.

1.00pm: Lunch Break

1.45pm: Equal Opportunities Quiz/Workshop
To ease us into an afternoon devoted to understanding the essentials of equal opportunities law, we will discuss practical scenarios dealing with:
o Equal opportunities - who is protected?
o Appointments/interviews
o The rights of part-time staff
o Complaints of harassment
o Requests for part-time/flexible working

3.00pm: Break (tea, coffee and biscuits)

3.15pm: Continuing our examination of real-life issues, we will consider:
o The termination/non-renewal of fixed-term contracts
o Age discrimination and compulsory retirement
o Religion and belief discrimination
o The rights of disabled employees

3.30pm: The Law on Equal Opportunities
Again, to reinforce the knowledge gained from the case studies, a concise and pragmatic guide to the law (and practice) on all the main branches of discrimination protection.

4:15pm: Summary and Questions.

The workshop will be held in The Hardy Room at the London Mathematical Society, Russell Square. Website: www.lms.ac.uk.

Please note that there are limited places available for this event.

To book a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk

Cost: £175 for cpd25 members and £265 for other institutions.

Cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day, the full fee will be charged.


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Support For Researchers [Event Ref. No. TG5/SUPP] (1:00PM - 5:00PM)
How do we support researchers? Support for the REF, bibliometrics, skills training for new researchers …

Librarians have always provided support for the research community, but in recent years it has emerged as a key agenda and looks set to become a core activity in many university libraries.

This half day event will provide an overview of some of the issues facing HE libraries, including how the roles and skills of librarians need to develop to meet the needs of our research community. Presentations from colleagues in libraries that have already implemented research support programmes will give an insight into how to provide support and some ideas to take back to our own libraries.

Speakers:

Helen Young, Academic Librarian at Loughborough University Library and Jenny Coombs, University of Nottingham will be talking about creating a reusable, online information literacy tutorial for researchers: A collaborative approach.

Sarah Nicholas from Cardiff University will talk about the Connected Researcher workshops. She'll reflect on the context of these social media workshops for Cardiff's researchers, first delivered in February 2011, the challenges presented in balancing practical and discursive content, how researchers responded to the workshops and how these and other workshops fit within Cardiff University Libraries' centrally coordinated support for researchers.

Jenny Delasalle from the University of Warwick will be talking about library support for researchers offered at Warwick and the Wolfson Research Exchange.

Sarah Molloy, Research Support Librarian at Queen Mary, will be talking about her work in this area.

Dominic Tate from Royal Holloway, University of London will be talking about rolling out a Current Research Information System (CRIS) alongside an Institutional Repository (IR), promoting it as a service to researchers and capitalising on academic engagement.

Outline Programme:

1:00 to 1:30: Registration & tea/coffee

1:30 to 1:40: Welcome

1:40 to 2:10: Jenny Delasalle

2:10 to 2:40: Sarah Nicholas

2:40 to 3:10: Helen Young and Jenny Coombs

3:10 to 3:30: Tea/coffee break

3:30 to 4:00: Sarah Molloy

4:00 to 4:30: Dominic Tate

4:30 to 4:35: Finish.

Charge: £50 for members and £75 for non-members.

Venue: The Bloomsbury Room (G35), Senate House, University of London, London WC1E 7HU [Website: http://www.london.ac.uk/map.html]

Please note that places on this visit are limited and early booking is essential.

Cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day, the full fee will be charged.

To book please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk

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