Workshop Six: New professionals: Build your network using social media
My final workshop of the conference was another of Jo Alcock’s sessions, this time focusing on social media – blogs, Twitter and social networking in particularly. I’m not really sure whether I’d be considered an ‘early adopter’ or not, having originally set up this blog in January 2006 – back when [...]

Workshop Five: To e or not to e? eBooks are the question but what is the answer from foundation degree students and teaching staff?
Surprisingly I’m not a massive fan of ebooks. I’ve written about this before so it’s not worth covering again here but I’m still prepared to change my mind… I have been known [...]

Workshop Four: Your library brand and the student experience
Generally speaking we (as information professionals) concentrate on circulating information about our services but tend to lack a strong library brand to market them effectively. Emma Illingworth and Jo Alcock suggest we need strong strategic input to create a brand that maintains and promotes awareness of services [...]

Workshop Three: The bright and dark sides of the web
Linda Jones (the dark) and Timothy Collinson (the bright) from the University of Portsmouth ran this unusually interactive tag-team extravaganza to showcase practical examples of their creative engagement with web 2.0, whilst highlighting some of the pitfalls/dangers of web applications. Participants were also encouraged to share [...]

I’m going to be kind today and break this down into parts… I’m suffering from massive information overload anxiety and so will try my very best to present this as clear and informative as I can. Promise.
Plenary with Llywelyn Morris
The day didn’t get off to a great start given two of the three programmed speakers didn’t [...]