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31 Dec

Posted at 15:05h in Events, Professional Organisations, Public speaking, Reflection by
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I'm a creature of habit, so I'm continuing the tradition of posting an end of year blog post (see 2008, 2009, and 2010). It's actually really useful for me to look back and see what I did each year. So, what has 2011 involved? 2011 mosaic 1. My ALA 2011 badge complete with ribbons!, 2. Louisiana State University, 3. Osney Building at University of Oxford, 4. CILIP signage

28 Jul

Posted at 08:30h in Events, Library, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Greeting after 1 mile (yes, 1 mile!) of convention centre"]Greeting after 1 mile of convention centre[/caption] Well, it's been almost a month now since my visit to the ALA Annual 2011 Conference in New Orleans and study visit to Louisiana State University. I know some people were following my tweets (although I expect some people followed my advice to mute them!), and my Tumblr that I used before, during and after the conference. If I'm honest though, the 8am starts and midnight-ish finishes meant I was exhausted so didn't get to blog as much as I had planned to during the conference. Having said that, I really wanted to take in as much of the sights and experiences of the conference that I possibly could, and I definitely did that.

20 May

Posted at 16:30h in Productivity, Professional issues, Uncategorized by
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I'm fascinated by personality and how it affects the way we work; my Psychology A-level was one of the most interesting courses I've taken and my undergraduate dissertation (on Sports Psychology) focused on individual personality differences and their impact on sport participation. I've also always loved taking personality tests to try to find out more about myself. So I was pleasantly surprised when I found out about a book by Devora Zack titled 'Networking for people who hate networking: a field guide for introverts, the overwhelmed, and the underconnected'. Now I don't hate networking, but I do find it difficult so thought this book might be able to help (plus it has pictures on penguins on the cover and within the chapters, which was always going to sway me!). I decided to buy a copy for my Kindle and have really enjoyed reading it.

11 Mar

Posted at 16:30h in Events, Library, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="442" caption="Sax 1 by chickadee"]Sax player by romexico[/caption] (Post title will probably be lost on you if you haven't been watching Treme on Sky Atlantic, but my boyfriend has been singing it constantly the last couple of days!) I mentioned in my post at the start of the year that I wanted to attend more conferences this year, and in particular my first international conference. I've now stopped jumping around ecstatically and can share the news that I'm going to ALA Annual in June this year (it's in New Orleans hence the Treme and jazz references!).