Previous training

Handling conflict situations

Do you face conflict situations during your work and want to learn how to resolve these constructively?  This one-day training event for library, information and archive services staff will help you to:

Understand why conflict occurs and recognise the signs
Assess the risk before taking any actions
Manage your emotional reactions and cope with others’ emotions and behaviours

Know how to act assertively and defuse aggressive situations
Understand the advantages of different conflict strategies
The programme is aimed at any level of staff who may experience conflict in their roles - within their organisation, within their team, with external agencies or customers. Please note it is not a course about dealing with physical aggression.

Influencing skills

Achieving your goals at work often means gaining the help, co-operation and commitment of others both within and beyond your own organisation.  
LIEM is offering a one-day training event aimed at middle managers working in library, information and archives services to help you:

Increase your personal influence and build working relationships
Develop an effective influencing strategy
Recognise the impact of your own style and approach on others
Express your views confidently and persuasively with a realistic outcome in mind

Managing Change

LIEM offers this one-day training event aimed at team leaders and operational managers working in library, information and archives services to help them:

Recognise and understand responses to change
Communicate changes in a clear and constructive way
Gain greater commitment to change by involving staff and encouraging feedback Identify actions they can take to support people through change
Develop a plan to support their organisational change.

Previous development oportunities

All Change Please – Contemporary Issues in Document Supply

LIEM was delighted to work with the Forum for Interlending to deliver a joint workshop at the University of Leicester in January 2009. Over 40 participants from a variety of libraries across the region and beyond took part and the event was very well received. Speakers included Peter Robinson of the British Library, Tim Peacock of Derby University and Joan Bird of the British Geological Survey and there were workshops on Secure Electronic Delivery, International Document Supply and Music Performance Sets. It was an excellent example of partnership and collaboration between the two organisations and grateful thanks are extended to Linda Clark, Document Supply Manager at the University of Leicester, and her colleagues and to Rose Goodier, Chair of FIL, and members of the committee.

LIEM visit to RNIB in Peterborough

This visit on Thursday 22nd January 2009 aimed to provide a chance to explore behind the scenes and discover how the Royal National Institute of Blind People supports people living with sight loss. It included insight into:

Transcription of braille into foreign languages, mathematics and music, as well as the production of tactile images, maps and diagrams. (The largest braille production facility in Europe)
The RNIB’s famous Talking Book Service. Around 8,000 books a day are distributed, using the latest digital technology, to over 40,000 customers.
The warehouse, where products and information are dispatched around the world. Hundreds of everyday living products - from large button phones to liquid level indicators, braille publications to speaking clocks and watches are sold through Customer Services, or the online shop, as well as through local blind societies.
Volunteering teams: meeting some of the many volunteers who work in a wide range of roles.
An account of the visit written by participants Christina Raven-Conn and Val Sellars can be accessed here: Three cheers for J.K.Rowling

The British Library Bursary scheme

The British Library Travel and Research bursary awards were established in 2005, funded by the British Library, Libraries and Information East Midlands and the East Midlands Branch of CILIP. The funds have been used to support two awards to date. These were made to Lesley Phillips for her work on the history of the Old Theatre Royal in Chesterfield, and to Madeline Cox for her study of Nottinghamshire’s Astronomical Past. You can read more about their experiences in the article published in Impact in Spring 2008, Vol 11, No 1 pp 16 – 20 “Calling all studious and curious persons” The British Library Bursary Scheme.

In August 2007 the bursary fund was also used to cover the travel costs of fifteen members of staff from a wide range of libraries across the region for a one-day visit to the British Library in London.

The final two British Library Travel and Research bursary awards for East Midlands’ library staff have now been made. The awards, which were widely advertised across the region, attracted a strong field of applications and the winning two were selected by the British Library to go forward.

The bursaries have been awarded to Carol Barstow, Librarian of Bromley House Library in Nottingham and to Jon-Paul Carr, Northamptonshire Studies Manager for Northamptonshire Libraries. The awards will enable Carol and Jon-Paul to undertake a period of research at the London site of the British Library with the support and guidance of Dr Michelle Brown, former keeper of manuscripts at the BL.

Please note the scheme is now closed.

Further information can be read here:BL Bursary scheme

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