Professional course Information Services: Planning and Provision

Content

This module will cover the following topic areas:

• Introduction to Personal and Organisational Management: Overview of the module; what do we mean by personal management; what do we mean by organisational management; key theories and practice.
• Personal Data Management and Content Curation: Understanding our own approach to how we manage our personal data and information; looking at a range of social media tools to support our personal data management.
• Managing yourself and others; Presentation Skills and Writing Strategically: Opportunity to learn about good presentation techniques, tools and practice; learning how to write effective reports, summaries and strategic documentation. Designing communications; analysing your audience; researching and developing content.
• Managing yourself and others; Interpersonal Skills and Team Management: What are interpersonal skills and why they are essential skills for managers; employability skills; managing teams - theory and practice.
• Change Management: How to manage change in a library and information services environment; key change management theories; analysis of forces and opportunities for change; planning, managing and evaluating change; assessing and meeting development needs of staff.
• Introduction to the PKSB (full framework) and Assessment Tutorials: Introduction to the Personal Knowledge and Skills Base framework to analyse skills and development needs; exploring the role of the assessment process.
• Financial Management: Managing the Library Budget: Why we budget; role of the manager in financial decision making; budget models; income generation.
• Marketing and Promotion: Planning a marketing and promotion strategy: Investigating the role of effective marketing and promotion plans for a library and information service; tools and techniques; 7 stage marketing planning.
• Workforce Planning: Business plans, service plans and profiling your workforce: Investigating strategic workforce planning models; succession planning; workforce challenges; workforce profiling tools.
• Talent Management: Training and Compliance: Attracting, managing and developing talent; effective appraisals; the brand called YOU!
• Effective Leadership: What is a leader; key leadership theories; evaluating your own leadership style.
• Professional Networks and CPD: What is networking and how is it beneficial to managers; key networking tools for effective information gathering; maintaining your CPD.

Learning and Teaching

The module is delivered through weekly sessions, which take place on consecutive weeks.

Scheduled learning is via lectures and discussion time with module tutor and guest lecturers. Supported by teaching materials on the VLE, with associated web discussion groups, collaborative learning tasks and assignment tutorials.

Tutor also available by appointment and email.

Study time

This module (course) will involve 2 hours direct contact time per week for one semester

A 15 credit module, like this, is expected to take 150 hours to complete:

• 24 hrs contact time trough lectures and face to face discussion
• 30 hrs coursework preparation
• 86 hrs assimilation and development of knowledge
• 10 hrs exam preparation

Assessment

Assessment is through a piece of written coursework and a group presentation.

For more details, see our full glossary of assessment terms.