Today is the final day of Library Day in the Life, an international initiative where library workers share their daily activities to illustrate what it’s like to be a librarian (read my earlier posts here). Our roles vary considerably and it’s been really interesting to read more about librarians in different sectors to me. I’m not [...]

I’m back in the office today! Well, not my office as such… On Thursdays I spend all day at St George’s Library. Usually I’d be included on the counter rota for at least two hours but as I did this earlier in the week I’m free to get on with some other activities. These two [...]

Continuing with my Library Day in the Life updates today I wanted to tell you a bit about my first trip to CILIP HQ (The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).

I was up at 4:30am and on the train to London by 05:55am! Hitting London rush hour is a nightmare and if I’m honest [...]

Having had a quiet morning reading through a couple of conference reports and removing content from one of the library iPads, today I thought I’d focus on some of the new technologies we use in the library to support our users.
A major project was launched during the back end of last year to ‘introduce a [...]

Mondays usually always start the same – catching up with emails and checking over to-do lists. I like to-do lists a lot, I just struggle with the ticking things off bit, especially on Monday mornings.
This Monday in particular I spent the best part of the morning looking over subject funds and chasing up a few [...]