I know there hasn’t been much activity here to get excited about lately but I just wanted to confirm that my blog is taking a hiatus. From August 24th I’ll no longer be working for the University of Sheffield Library or able to keep up with my New Professionals Support Officer role with the CILIP [...]

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 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 [...]

I wasn’t sure whether to link to the presentation now or wait until after the Newcastle event in November, but I figured I’d put it up now just in case anyone wants a sneak peek.
So what are these New Professionals Information Days about? Well, generally targeted at new professionals, recent graduates, students and anyone else [...]

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 [...]