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01 Oct

Posted at 21:18h in Reflection, Uncategorized by
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What? Why the planning? [caption id="" align="alignright" width="214"] Which path to choose? by Mark Smallwood[/caption] I'm going through a period of self-reflection at the moment, and it's something I go through regularly when I finish studying or close a chapter of my life. One day I'm just plodding along as normal, and then suddenly I have extra free time and I start thinking. Thinking is good, but life thinking is HARD. I'm an opportunist type of person, so I never really planned to be a librarian - I just knew teaching wasn't for me at the time I had to make a...

30 Dec

Posted at 15:00h in Library, Professional issues, Uncategorized by
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Due to the nature of my career history so far (numerous temporary contracts and moving campuses), I have changed jobs a lot in the last few years. In just over four years at my current place of work I've had five interviews, five different jobs (four in the same job role but different locations and contracts), and worked at three different campuses. I'm now in my first professional post which I started just over a year ago. I've become pretty accustomed to moving around and having different jobs, so having a permanent librarian job is a bit of a novelty. However,...

01 Oct

Posted at 11:21h in Events, Study, Technology, Uncategorized by
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Well, the time has finally come - on Monday I had an interview for a professional librarian post and I was successful! I'm also coming very close to completion of my Diploma (I'm going away at the end of this month and my aim is to complete my final assignment before I go) so hopefully soon I'll be able to say with pride that I am a qualified librarian. I'm so excited about starting a professional post, I can't wait to be able to work more closely with academic schools to help support the students and further develop our services. I'm moving...

17 Aug

Posted at 20:45h in General, Library, Uncategorized by
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I haven't posted for a while, I've been spending most of my free time preparing for an interview (and reading Harry Potter, I'd only read the first three!). I have been working part time for the last year, which has been good as it has given me extra time to study, however it has been more of a struggle financially and I have tended to spend my free day each week catching up with housework, going to town, the bank, the doctors, etc etc! A full time job came up at my level so I decided to apply for it, and...

26 Jul

Posted at 14:19h in Library, Technology by
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Degree Tutor has recently published interviews about the future of librarians, it makes very interesting reading. I haven't had chance to read many yet, but have read the interviews of Librarian In Black and Phil Bradley, both of whom talk about the importance of librarians to utilise Web 2.0 technology. My view is that the future for librarians is very exciting, the so called "information society" calls for librarians to help organise that information and enable people to find the information useful to them. I don't know if we'll continue to be known as librarians for much longer though, maybe more...