Information Services: Planning and Provision - Professional course

Program Overview

The Information Services: Planning and Provision Professional course from UWE Bristol is a 14-week program that covers topics such as personal and organizational management, data management, marketing, and leadership. It is accredited by the Chartered Institute for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals and can be taken as a standalone module or used towards a postgraduate qualification. The course is designed for individuals seeking careers in information or library services.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Content:
• Introduction to Personal and Organisational Management
• Personal Data Management and Content Curation
• Managing yourself and others; Presentation Skills and Writing Strategically
• Managing yourself and others; Interpersonal Skills and Team Management
• Change Management
• Introduction to the PKSB (full framework) and Assessment Tutorials
• Financial Management: Managing the Library Budget
• Marketing and Promotion: Planning a marketing and promotion strategy
• Workforce Planning: Business plans, service plans and profiling your workforce
• Talent Management: Training and Compliance
• Effective Leadership
• Professional Networks and CPD
• Structure:
• Weekly sessions over 14 weeks
• Scheduled lectures and discussion time with the module tutor and guest lecturers
• Supported by teaching materials on the VLE, web discussion groups, collaborative learning tasks, and assignment tutorials
• Tutor available by appointment and email
• Individual Modules:
• Personal Data Management and Content Curation:
Understanding personal data management approaches, social media tools
• Managing yourself and others; Presentation Skills and Writing Strategically:
Presentation techniques, writing reports, summaries, and strategic documentation
• Managing yourself and others; Interpersonal Skills and Team Management:
Interpersonal skills, employability skills, managing teams
• Change Management:
Managing change in library and information services, key theories, planning, implementation, and evaluation
• Introduction to the PKSB (full framework) and Assessment Tutorials:
PKSB framework, assessment process
• Financial Management: Managing the Library Budget:
Budgeting role, income generation
• Marketing and Promotion: Planning a marketing and promotion strategy:
Effective marketing and promotion plans, tools and techniques
• Workforce Planning: Business plans, service plans and profiling your workforce:
Strategic workforce planning models, succession planning, workforce challenges, profiling tools
• Talent Management: Training and Compliance:
Attracting, managing and developing talent, appraisals, personal branding
• Effective Leadership:
Leadership theories, evaluating leadership style
• Professional Networks and CPD:
Networking benefits, tools, maintaining CPD

Assessment:

• Written coursework
• Group presentation

Teaching:

• Weekly sessions
• Lectures and discussion time
• Teaching materials on the VLE
• Web discussion groups
• Collaborative learning tasks
• Assignment tutorials
• Tutor available by appointment and email

Careers:

• Can be taken as a standalone module or used to build credit towards a postgraduate qualification
• Study facilities accessible to all students
• Course is planned to run again in 2025
• Apply online by completing the enquiry form

Cohort January 2025 UK participants £792

International participants £1,333

• Fees displayed are based on 2023/24 entry and are an indication only.