ASLIB is a membership association for people who manage information and knowledge in organizations, who are not necessarily librarians.

ASLIB also provides training and development for busy information professionals in key aspects of information work.

ASLIB offer public courses and workshops in London, as well as on-site and distance learning programmes Nationwide and through Europe.

ASLIB deliver courses including:

Business & Official Information Sources

• British Company Law
• Business Information
• European Union Information
• EU Legal Information: An Overview
• UK Legal Information: An Overview
• Statistics for Business

Cataloguing & Classification

• Basic Cataloguing & Indexing
• Classification Practice
• Constructing a Thesaurus
• Indexing: Principles and Practice
• Introduction to Records Management
• Metadata: Principles and Practice
• Organizing Digital Information and knowledge

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Copyright for Information Providers: An Introduction
• Copyright for Information Providers: Advanced
• Copyright Policies, Dealing with Infringements and Risk Management

General Management & Communication Skills

• Business Plans: how to produce a workable and convincing business plan
• Developing Your Management and Leadership Skills
• Effective Team Building Skills
• How to Design Training Sessions
• How to Motivate Your People Through Effective Staff Reviews
• Negotiating Online Subscriptions
• Presentation Skills
• Project Management
• Using Excel Spread sheets to Manage a Library Budget

Knowledge Management

• Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy
• Implementing Knowledge Management Initiatives
• Knowledge Architecture
• Knowledge Management

Library & Information Management Skills

• Abstracting and Summarizing
• Assessing Our Worth: Value and Impact
• Enquiry Handling
• How to choose, build, and update taxonomies and thesauri
• How to evaluate your services
• How to index, tag, classify and summarize
• How to understand your users

Information Governance

• Introduction to Data Protection
• Introduction to Freedom of Information

Web & Internet Skills

• Personalities, Profiles and Privacy: Web 2.0 and social media for communication [New course]