1. LRD Publications Online Caroline Lynch / Maria Clarke Information & Knowledge Management June 2008

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4. LRD Publications Online Access LRD Online here

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6. What's available?  Labour Research Journal  Workplace Report  Labour Research Department booklets including the latest versions of:  Learning and skills: a trade unionist’s guide  Law at Work  Time off for trade union duties and activities

7. What's available?  Labour Research Journal – covers UK news on union matters and relevant EU information.  Workplace Report – provides information on the latest developments on pay and conditions, best practice and pay deals. It provides an update on case law development and regularly covers recruitment and learning & training at work.  Labour Research Department booklets – provide summaries on employment relations topics.

8. LRD Online Labour Research Development Booklets Workplace Report Labour Research Journal

9.  Search by subject or  Go straight to the full text Searching LRD

10. Labour Research Journal Please ignore Buy, Discount, Subscribe You have free access Browse by issue Click cover to access

11. Workplace Report

13. Labour Research Department Booklets Browse by title: drop down list

14. Labour Research Department Booklets

15. Searching LRD  Three letter words are not indexed so avoid words like “age” or “sex”  Don’t use the search term ‘AND’.  For example to search for both ‘learning’ and ‘negotiation’ type in: +negotiation +learning

16.  * can be used as a wildcard e.g. pregn* matches pregnant, pregnancy etc  Use quotation marks for an exact match on a phrase e.g. "flexible working" Searching LRD

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20.  What is a learning agreement?  What legal rights are there for parental leave?  What are the issues around verbal assault? How would you search LRD for these topics?

21.  “learning agreement” Possible search strategies: What is a learning agreement?

22.  +“parental leave” +legal Possible search strategies: What legal rights are there for parental leave?

23.  “verbal assault”  “verbal abuse” Possible search strategies: What are the issues around verbal assault?

24.  What do you think of LRD Publications Online?  Will you use it in the future and if so for what purposes? Discussion

25.  What other information resources would you recommend to RCN representatives? Discussion

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