Geosciences
Geoscience Documentation Management for Mineral Resources
Training in a geoscience library holding more than a century of maps and reports on geology and mineral resources, with support in developing a documentation strategy for the organisation.
Overview
About the programme
Training in a geoscience library holding more than a century of maps and reports on geology and mineral resources, with support in developing a documentation strategy for the organisation.
Duration
8 days
Training hours
56 hours
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
What trainees will gain
- Manage a geoscience document bank.
- Set up or modernise the management of a library.
- Enhance the value of the document collection: geoscience vocabulary, search methodology and documentary products.
- Provide services to users.
Content
What the programme covers
Organisations and networks for managing scientific and technical information
- A visit to the library, map library and archives.
- The production management cycle for reports, scientific publications and public data.
- An overview of information sources in geosciences: commercial information, electronic resources, open archives and data repositories.
Managing a geoscience documentation centre
- Documentation techniques: document types and the processing chain from acquisition to cataloguing, indexing, use and distribution.
- The role and operations of a library in a research institution, and the functions of the integrated system used to manage it.
- User service activities.
Computerised library management
- Getting started with an open-source integrated system: building the catalogue, using it and distributing it through the portal.
- Installation, configuration, administrator settings, backup and access rights.
Who for
Target audience
Those responsible for managing document collections, such as librarians and cartographers at geological survey organisations and mining research institutes.
Method
How it is delivered
Training in the library, tailored to the organisation's needs.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.