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07 Feb

Posted at 15:22h in Chartership, Events, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="128" caption="Twitter Chat (image from Iconfinder)"][/caption] A little while ago, Rachel mentioned the idea of having a scheduled chat on Twitter for anyone doing CILIP Chartership. I liked the idea and thought it was something I would probably like to do to help me when I'm chartering. It's something I mentioned when I first starting thinking about Chartership, and was pleased to see others would like to join in too. Well, I registered for my Chartership in December, and Tina reminded me recently that we haven't had a Twitter chat on Chartership. I've been using the #chartership tag on...

03 Feb

Posted at 20:10h in Events, Library, Uncategorized by
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This week I’m participating in the Library Day in the Life project which charts the day-to-day activities of library workers at different points of the year. This is the sixth time I’ve participated; you can see my earlier posts from July 2009, January 2010, July 2010, January 2011 and July 2011. I’m currently a full-time Researcher at Evidence Base, Birmingham City University, UK. Although my job title doesn't include the word librarian and I don't work in a library, I still consider myself very much a librarian - our research helps support the library and information communities.Just a short post...

02 Feb

Posted at 22:54h in Events, Library, Uncategorized by
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This week I’m participating in the Library Day in the Life project which charts the day-to-day activities of library workers at different points of the year. This is the sixth time I’ve participated; you can see my earlier posts from July 2009, January 2010, July 2010, January 2011 and July 2011. I’m currently a full-time Researcher at Evidence Base, Birmingham City University, UK. Although my job title doesn't include the word librarian and I don't work in a library, I still consider myself very much a librarian - our research helps support the library and information communities.Today I was working...

01 Feb

Posted at 21:07h in Events, Library by
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This week I’m participating in the Library Day in the Life project which charts the day-to-day activities of library workers at different points of the year. This is the sixth time I’ve participated; you can see my earlier posts from July 2009, January 2010, July 2010, January 2011 and July 2011. I’m currently a full-time Researcher at Evidence Base, Birmingham City University, UK. Although my job title doesn't include the word librarian and I don't work in a library, I still consider myself very much a librarian - our research helps support the library and information communities.Day in the office today - which ironically usually means I get much...

01 Feb

Posted at 00:38h in Events, Library, Uncategorized by
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This week I’m participating in the Library Day in the Life project which charts the day-to-day activities of library workers at different points of the year. This is the sixth time I’ve participated; you can see my earlier posts from July 2009, January 2010, July 2010, January 2011 and July 2011. I’m currently a full-time Researcher at Evidence Base, Birmingham City University, UK. Although my job title doesn't include the word librarian and I don't work in a library, I still consider myself very much a librarian - our research helps support the library and information communities.Today was another continuing professional development event for me, again in London. This...

31 Jan

Posted at 02:45h in Events, Library, Uncategorized by
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This week I’m participating in the Library Day in the Life project which charts the day-to-day activities of library workers at different points of the year. This is the sixth time I’ve participated; you can see my earlier posts from July 2009, January 2010, July 2010, January 2011 and July 2011. I’m currently a full-time Researcher at Evidence Base, Birmingham City University, UK. Although my job title doesn't include the word librarian and I don't work in a library, I still consider myself very much a librarian - our research helps support the library and information communities.Just a brief post - today I attended the LIS DREaM ...

25 Jan

Posted at 03:16h in Chartership, Events, Professional Organisations, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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As I'm currently working on my CILIP Chartership, I'm getting into the habit of reflecting on any professional activities. I also think it's good practice after a conference to reflect on what you learnt (in terms of the conference content and also the logistics and organisational aspects), and had an interesting conversation last night at dinner about how useful it was to record the lessons learned after each conference (we also discussed how at a conference it was common to have more showers than meals!*). So here are a few points I have been mulling over after ALA Midwinter 2012...

17 Jan

Posted at 20:20h in Events, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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Tomorrow morning (at the obscene time of 3am) I'll be getting up and getting ready to fly to Dallas for ALA Midwinter 2012. I've packed my shoulder pads, I know who shot JR, and I've been humming "da daaa, da daaa, da da da da da da". (I'm afraid that's all I know about the Dallas TV show and though it was tempting to purchase a series to watch on the flight, I opted for The Big C instead). Here's highlights of what I'll be up to during the conference (my full conference schedule is available here though it doesn't include all...

17 Jan

Posted at 15:03h in Chartership, Public speaking, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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Last week I gave my first ever webinar as part of the American Library Association (ALA) Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Mobile Computing Interest Group (MCIG) virtual meeting.* It took place instead of a physical meeting at ALA Midwinter to enable more people to attend and present. There were five presentations in 90 minutes so we each had 10 minutes to present and 5 minutes of Q&A. If you're interested in the topic, you can watch a recording of the webinar - see the blog post I wrote for our m-library community support project blog. I thought it would be useful to reflect on my experiences of presenting a webinar - I'm noticing more and more webinars set up to enable more people to attend virtually across different time zones and without the expense of travelling, so I imagine presenting at webinars is something we'll be seeing a lot more of in future.This is my setup - home office with laptop for webinar software, headset for listening/speaking, iPhone for timing, and iPad and notepad for presentation prompts (and all important glass of Ribena!): [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Webinar setup"]Webinar setup[/caption]

06 Jan

Posted at 14:00h in Chartership, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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I get asked this question a lot, and I often struggle to answer it. My job is pretty unique so there's not really much to easily compare it to. I'm part of an academic library but rarely set foot into the library. I have an office on a University campus but don't visit it very often as I regularly work from home or on the go (the train is a favourite of mine!). My job title is Evidence Based Researcher; if you asked me I would probably tell you I'm an academic researcher/librarian, but my partner would probably say he wasn't really sure how to describe it but I'm a sort of information consultant. So what do I actually do? The Special Libraries Association (SLA) have organised an Alternative Careers webinar to help introduce some of the more alternative jobs out there in the information profession. Bethan Ruddock, who is the webinar host, asked me if I'd be able to answer some questions about my job to help her research for the webinar (Bethan also has a pretty unique job but wants to get some other examples to share). I was happy to oblige and am reproducing what I sent her. So if you're not sure what I actually do, this might give you more of an idea...