Most consultancy companies and consultants in the information and library sector offer training as a part of their portfolio. Information Automation Limited is no exception. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) must form a part of any professional's life; so important is it in our sector that a past CILIP President, Margaret Watson said, “Without a commitment to CPD the information profession will cease to exist.”

IAL offers courses that can form a part of your professional lifelong learning. Over the years the company has offered a number of courses centering on electronic resources - most particularly on their quality and evaluation. Sometimes, as in the case of courses run for the Centre for Scientific Documentation and Information, Indonesian Institute for Sciences in Jakarta, the training has been a part of a consultancy package.

Currently, we offer a number of courses:

• Introducing information literacy in the workplace
• Undertalking research in the workplace
• e-Books as an e-resource
• Managing collections of e-resources
• Collection Development Policies for libraries and information units
• Locating e-resources
• Evaluating electronic information resources
• Advanced searching and new Internet tools
• Electronic publishing