[Asis-l] Library Management Workshops

[Robin Albert]

Boost your financial skills and boost your career!

The College of Information Studies
Continuing Education Program
University of Maryland
presents the following Financial Management Workshops

Budgeting for Decision Making

This seminar takes you through some of the common concepts of financial management and provides a hands-on opportunity to practice basic techniques such as cost/benefit analysis and calculating payback/savings.

Whether you are a current manager or are looking forward to assuming new responsibilities, this seminar will provide information that will help you increase your understading of the financial tools available to you to manage your operations.  In today' environment, librarians need to have more than specialized knowledge about information resources, they also need to be able to apply appropriate business and management skills to support decision-making.

In this seminar you will...
*  Discuss basic financial concepts and terminology
*  Develop a better awareness of why the finance function is important to you
*  Examine the purpose and use of a budget - what are management's goals?
*  Review the steps required to develop a program/project (operating) budget
*  Look at sources of data for identifying the cost of services
*  Learn techniques for cost/benefits analysis and calculating payback/savings

About the instructor: Lisl Zach has an MBA from New York University, an MSLS from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is currently a doctoral student at CLIS.  She has worked in not-for-profit financial administration for over 10 years.

Date & Time:    September 27, 2002,  9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location:       University of Maryland, College Park
Fee:            $265
CEUs:           .6
Deadline:       September 20, 2002

Other Management Workshops scheduled for this Fall/Winter:

-- Library Fund Raising: Basic Principles, Trends, & Techniques
October 18, 2002

-- Making it count! Measuring and communicating the value of library services,  January 23, 2003

Check our website at www.clis.umd.edu/ce/ or ask to be placed on the mailing list for information on our Fall/Winter schedule. Contact Robin Albert at 301-405-2057 or ra67 at umail.umd.edu

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