Archive for July, 2010
July 26th, 2010
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Category: Libraries
Tags: cilip, ereader, ipad, libday5, librarydayinthelife, training
After following the last couple of Library Day in the Life weeks I thought it was about time I joined the party! Want to know what I’ll be getting up to during this week? Well, stay right here, here, here, or here.
In the meantime I’ll let you know what’s in my diary:
Monday – Customer Services [...]
July 23rd, 2010
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Category: Libraries, Personal
Tags: big conversation, career development, cdg, cilip, cilipfuture, cilipyh, echolib, networking, new professionals, professional development
Yesterday I got yet another trip out the office up to Leeds to attend the CILIP Yorkshire and Humberside Members’ Day (#cilipyh). I’ve never been to one of these before so, aside from the pre-registered sessions, was unsure what to really expect.
Opening up the day was the amazing Biddy Fisher with her keynote address… Of [...]
July 16th, 2010
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Category: Libraries, Personal, Web 2.0
Tags: conference, exeter10, networking, npc2010, social media, twitter
When I first wrote about Twitter in Higher Education (back in November 2008) I’d not been using the service all that long or as frequently as I do now and it wasn’t until early 2009 that I really started to gather my thoughts about how to make the best use of it. So now we’re [...]
July 8th, 2010
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Category: Libraries
Tags: career development, cdg, cilip, networking, new professionals, npc2010, professional development, skills, value
Now for the final part of my report from the New Professionals Conference. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.
Session two: Attitudes that add value
Ann Donovan and Rachel Edwards kicked off the afternoon session with their paper on Broadening your skills: The Bexley public library experience. Showcasing a number of projects within [...]
July 7th, 2010
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Category: Libraries
Tags: career development, cilip, cpd, new professionals, npc2010, skills, social media
Here’s part two of my New Professionals Conference report summing up my notes from session one. Part one is here.
Session one: Developing your skills on a shoestring
Bronagh McCrudden opened the morning session with her (award-winning) paper Would you work for free? Unpaid work in the information professional and how to make it count. Discussing the [...]