The Big Book Review
We recently ran a book blogging competition at my school, using My Big Campus(an online environment offered by Lightspeed Systems) which offers blogging facilities, chat, groups, messaging, assignment...
View ArticleWho else is out there?
I have given this blog the rather strange title of 'who else is out there', simply because this is how I often feel. Working in a school and being the only professional librarian there means I have...
View ArticleLobby for Libraries - 13th March 2012
Since I cannot attend the Parliamentary Lobby for Libraries on 13th March, I was inspired by Bethanar's letter to her MP which she added to her blog last week. Subsequently I have just e-mailed the...
View ArticleLobby for Libraries - My MP's response
Having sent my email to my MP (see previous post), I was initially pleased to find a response in my inbox only a few hours later, however upon reading it I realised that it hadn't been sent from my MP,...
View ArticleGetting out of the LRC
Over the past few weeks I have had two opportunities to get out of the LRC and as there may be some people in my college who will say 'but you are never in there', perhaps I should have entitled it...
View ArticlePublic Libraries
Following on from my last blog post, I visited my local Central Library, meeting up with some ex work colleagues from my distant days when I worked for the public library service. While it was just...
View ArticleCPD23
I signed up this week for CPD23 following a little prompting from my chartership mentor who said it would be really good for someone who was struggling with criteria 4 of her chartership portfolio,...
View ArticleThing 3 - My Personal Brand
Considering my personal brand online seemed a bit strange at first until I started to google myself. No results for my actual name until the second page when there was a link to the citation written...
View ArticleThing 4 - Current Awareness
So it is only a few weeks in and already I am behind with my Things and looking anxiously for when there is a catch up week, hopefully Thing 4 will be mainly straightforward and ties in with something...
View ArticleThing 5
Thing 5 should have been done the week beginning 28th May so I am about four things behind. It is ironic thatThing 5 is all about reflective practicewhich is what I find most difficult; not the actual...
View ArticleThing 6 & 7
Just seen on Twitter that this week is a catch up week for CPD23. Yay! I won't get anymore behind while I am trying to catch up 4 things. So onto Things 6 & 7. I am going to combine these as...
View ArticleThing 8 & 9
Before I start on these Things, just want to mention the fantastic Libcampsw which I went to on Saturday. Held at Exeter University in the Xfi building (great place for a conference), it was so good...
View ArticleThings 10 and 11
I am finally catching up with myself, however the real test will be making sure I keep up during the summer holidays when I plan to be extremely lazy for at least the first four weeks, until I have to...
View ArticleLibcampsw
Saturday 7th July 2012 saw the first ever Libcamp in the southwest; our very own little sister to the national Libcamp. It was a wet and windy day (when isn't it?) and unfortunately some attendees...
View ArticleThing 12
Putting the social into social media is this week's Thing and initially I wondered why we were repeating ourselves, having done online networks in Thing 5, but when I read the post on...
View ArticleThing 13
Ok. I am seriously behind with CPD23 because it is the summer holidays. Working in a school gives me great holidays, but does also mean that I tend to switch off completely from anything work related...
View ArticleThing 14 moving swiftly onto 15
I meant to look at one of the following bibliographic tools, Zotero / Mendeley / CiteULike, at my leisure over the summer holidays. Honestly, really I did. As the CPD23 blog post says I also...
View ArticleThing 16: Advocacy and getting published
Still trying to catch up and having read ahead to some Things to come, I am not sure I want to catch up as they look quite hard. Still, advocacy.....not something I am especially good at I think. I...
View ArticleThing 17 - Prezi and Slideshare
For a while now I have been aware of the death by powerpoint syndrome, both as a teaching and learning tool in schools and at conferences, training etc. When I was doing a great deal of Information...
View ArticleThing 18 and 19
Still playing catch up and a bit daunted by Thing 18 as I haven't really used much screen capture software e.g. Jing or podcasts, but I have looked briefly at Screen-cast-a-matic and Goanimate as ways...
View ArticleThing 20 - Library Roots
Ok, I'm on a bit of a roll here, getting started on another Thing in the same Sunday afternoon, but it is cold and windy outside, my husband has the football on and my five year old daughter is cuddled...
View ArticleThing 21
When I saw this Thing, my first thought was that this doesn't apply to me. I have worked in the same institution for 11 years and although my role has changed, none of the changes required me to apply...
View ArticleThing 22 - Volunteering
Hmm - volunteering - bit of a thorny issue perhaps. PersonallyI have never volunteered in libraries. I don't think this has been a conscious decision however, more a fact that when I have needed...
View ArticleThing 23 - What Next?
Ok - Thing 23 - where do I go from here? I am not in the mood for a PDP as this is already a part of my Chartership and I have just updated the original one I sent to CILIP at the beginning with an...
View ArticleIts a bit late, but my thoughts on CILIP re-brand
I didn't realise just how long it had been since I had last posted on here, but looking back since I finished CPD23, I have mainly been preoccupied with writing up my evidence for my chartership...
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