Just another dent in the damage...

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This week I attended the second New Professionals Conference at the University of Sheffield on Proving your worth in challenging times, organised by the Career Development Group of CILIP (in partnership with the Department of Information Studies). I’ll be breaking my report down into three parts to match the conference programme.
First up is the welcome, opening address and plenary, which will [...]