I’m a librarian, walker, skier, urban cyclist, theatregoer, singer and bellringer. I tweet (sporadically) as @el399.On Tuesday 21st February I attended a Chartership and Certification event, which was run by Karen Poole from CDG and CILIP’s Michael Martin. You can see a live recording of a previous version of this event via the CILIP Bambuser channel, and there is a copy of the presentation linked from the right hand side of the portfolio-building courses page. (more…)
On February 2nd I attended an event entitled “How to create a killer CV in just 4 words”, which was organised by the recently-formed LISNetwork. Over the years I’ve seen lots of CV-writing training offered, but what particularly attracted me to this one was the description: “What are the four words that will turn a good CV into a killer CV? Come and discover how to really make your CV work for you.” (more…)
Last week was the first time I’ve participated properly in the Library Day in the Life project, and I thought it would be useful to reflect a little on how it went… (more…)
On Saturday 28th January I attended the #libcampnw event in Manchester. I missed the first library camp last year and thought it sounded like a fantastic event, so when I saw this one advertised I rushed to book my space and my train tickets. Of course as soon as I’d handed over the cash I discovered that another library camp was taking place much closer to home, but actually it was a great opportunity to meet some different people (although I did travel up with two other London librarians of my acquaintance!) and put some more faces to Twitter names. (more…)
In the first of what I intend to be a regular series of posts, a selection of my online reading over the last month. My criteria remain rather undefined, but generally these are library-related things which I found particularly interesting or important, or which struck a chord with me for some other reason. (more…)
On January 17th I attended a lecture given by Professor Robert Darnton, hosted by SCONUL and JISC at the Royal Society, on “The Digital Public Library of America: Current Plans and Future Prospects”. I feel I ought to say at the outset that I’m not an afternoon person, and I did find it difficult to get into the right mode as the session began, particularly as there were three separate introductions before Darnton stepped up to the microphone. I probably ought to have been expecting something like this, given that the event was jointly hosted, and fortunately a video of the event will appear on the JISC website in due course so I can catch up on what I might have missed! I’d also really recommend Simon Barron’s fantastic post about it as Simon’s writing is so much better than mine, and I’m currently admiring and envying this in equal measures! (more…)
Yesterday I attended one of the best training courses I’ve ever experienced – on mentoring – organised by my workplace and facilitated by Peter Renwick. I’m struggling to say exactly why it was so good, as really it was a pretty typical in-house training course – we began with some introductions then worked our way through the syllabus for the day, with a nice balance of theoretical and discussion sessions and practical exercises. The day absolutely flew past – I didn’t look at my watch during the morning session until around 12:30 (following a 9am start), and it was after 5pm before we realised it. In brief, we examined some definitions of mentoring, considered the qualities which lend themselves to being a good mentor, practised asking open questions, discussed what to include in a mentoring contract, and looked at how mentoring works in action. (more…)
Filed under: Chartership, CPD | Tags: Charles Oppenheim, copyright, Hargreaves report
It seems to me that event topics can be assigned to one of three categories – things you know about already, things you want to know about, and things you really don’t want to know about but feel that you ought.
On Monday 9th January I attended a talk given by Charles Oppenheim at the Sekforde Arms (organised by CILIP’s London branch), and on the face of it this definitely fell into the third category. I don’t have a great deal to do with copyright, and when I do have to tackle it my brain cells tend to collapse into small whimpering heaps of mush. However, full of new-found chartership enthusiasm, I decided that it would be good for me and duly signed up. (more…)
Filed under: Chartership
2012 is going to be my year of Chartership. So far I’ve registered, found myself a mentor (the fabulous Jo, hurrah!), started drafting my PPDP and lined up a number of interesting activities for the next few months, so at the moment I’m feeling pretty good about it all. (more…)
