What? Wow, what an experience! I thought there might be a few of us interested in the #chartership chat myself and Tina had organised (a Twitter chat to support those working on CILIP Chartership), and had already had positive messages from people who were hoping to join in, but I certainly wasn't expecting this...
by mnadi I didn't actually think I'd be writing a blog post about this yet - chairing meetings was on my list of things I'd be doing later this year (in my role as chair of CILIP West Midlands) but there was confusion over the date of the committee changeover. Seeing as the current chair couldn't attend the committee meeting earlier this week at the last minute, the rest of the committee decided I should chair the meeting (which left the Vice Chair very confused as the current Chair had asked him to stand in). Unfortunately I got lost on my way...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="350" caption="Studying?! by J.Salmoral"][/caption] When I should have been writing my dissertation in 2009 I wrote a few articles for publication, but in the last 12-18 months my writing has pretty much stalled apart from blogging which I continue to do on a regular basis, and occasional articles for regional newsletters (because I'm on committees and sometimes get asked to write something up for the newsletter). Most of my publications have been in newsletter and magazines - I've only been through the peer-review process once and it was an event report so not as rigorous as a research...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...