Yesterday I attended an informal careers event for the University of Sheffield’s Information School, organised by CILIP’s Career Development Group (Yorkshire and Humberside Division). Along with Ned Potter and Joel Kerry I was there to offer advice and tips on career paths by chatting about what I’ve been doing since I finished my MA in [...]

The Library Day in the Life Project started up again this week and although I’ve decided not to fully participate this time around I thought it’d be useful to write up some notes from this year’s ‘Library Cafe’ I attended on Monday. I think my reasons for not blogging everyday, like I did for Library [...]

Research metrics and citations count
Although the next two sessions were really interesting (well they were actually split around Yvonne Nobis’ session on Finding the known unknowns [...] due to timetable rearrangements but it seems logically to keep to the original order), they were heavy going. Bibliometrics aren’t necessarily complicated but it’s difficult to really get a grasp [...]

Last week I attended the latest University Science and Technology Librarians Group (USTLG) meet up in Oxford. If I’m honest it wasn’t so much the programme that attracted me this time but rather the location! I’ve never been to Oxford and don’t see myself making any plans to in the near future and so I [...]

The feedback from the New Professionals Information Day in London indicated that attendees would have preferred to have more information about sessions before deciding which they wanted to attend. In response to this I thought it’d be useful to post up my brief and tell you a bit more about what I’ll be covering tomorrow [...]