This Library Management course training course aims to enable participants to achieve the following objectives:

• Create, develop and put in an action plan for creating, setup, management and control of library management system including document control, auditing and compliance
• Review the security requirements and put together controls for managing confidential and private materials
• Provide an understanding of how good filing systems are developed
• Consider who needs to be involved in the process of developing such e-library management systems, policies and standards
• Investigate issues concerning the lack of good e-library filing and documentation standards
• Understand how a green library works
• Improve filing and documentation standards
• Improve manual hardcopy and softcopy e-library management systems
• Introduce records management, document control and management practices and standards
• Review ISO standards for library management, storage and archiving  and documentation management

COURSE CONTENT

Introduction

• Introduce library management and techniques
• The structure of library filing, indexing, storage and search
• Review documentation, document control and records management

Review Policies and Standards

• Review guidelines for International Federation of Library Association (IFLA)
• Standards for e-library, documentation and document management
• Regulatory, compliance and legal considerations

Designing Library Management Procedures and Systems

• Design overview
• Creating e-library filing and documentation control policies and procedures
• Creating indexing and metadata, storage, archive and search systems and setting up security

IT, Standards and Implementation

• Review of IT e-library management systems
• Roles and responsibilities
• Project planning and implementation

Case Studies and Programmes

• Case studies
• Drafting exercises
• Final wrap-up and discussion

FOR WHOM

Teachers, Lecturers, HOD, HOS, Educational planners, policy analysts, education statisticians and other professionals involved in educational planning at central or decentralized level.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

DATE:

1ST BATCH: 17th – 19th Jan, 2022                         

2ND BATCH: 30th May – 1st June, 2022    

3RD BATCH: 12th – 14th Sept, 2022