While attending the most recent Develop@City day this summer, I visited the City Excel Forum* booth, when Dionisis Dimakopoulos, who was staffing it and contributes to the City Excel Forum, asked me what tasks I use Excel for. I use Excel for So. Many. Things., but in the moment my mind went blank. Then the…Continue Reading Using Mail Merge to send Reading List emails
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Well, it probably fell in-between, like most things- perhaps the most okayest of times? Reflecting on the first year of my part-time MA in Linfoservagement (not the real title) is quite difficult because it all seems so very long ago already, and some…Continue Reading A Tale of Two Emails
On Friday, I attended an interesting talk about the digital side of librarianship. Part of the cpd25 Aspects training programme, it was situated in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre. From this session, I hoped to gain a little more insight into what digital librarianship involved as I felt this was something missing when undertaking my…Continue Reading cpd25: Digital Librarianship @ the British Library
Right now I’m in a lull. The choppy waves have calmed, the skies have brightened and I’m drifting ever closer to the shore. As a gentle warm breeze motions across, there’s barely a sound to be heard, and my mind begins to wander off in… SHARK! SHARK! OMG, SHARK! Okay, so, when my new term…Continue Reading On the right tack
1: Should I really be doing this, is it my place? Yes! The events team ask for staff volunteers because they need them. However, you need to check with your line manager and your site calendar to ensure that we can continue to provide a Library service; we still have lots of students studying, even…Continue Reading 7 thoughts that only people considering volunteering at graduation will recognise*
Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, 24th April 2016. The government has proposed changes to the way Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) will be managed. This will have implications for Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Some changes could specifically have implications for Library Services. Many Librarians have been discussing what can be done to prepare, support students and anticipate…Continue Reading CDP25: Changes to the Disabled Students’ Allowance – what does it mean for students, universities and libraries?
Although I’m partly of Irish descent and am partial to elves and quite wanted to see a leprechaun, I had never previously visited Ireland until the recent LILAC 2016 (LILAC is The Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference) at University College Dublin (UCD). I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend the conference and to…Continue Reading LILAC 2016: Leabharlannan, Learning & Leprechauns
The panel discussion, Women in the workplace, how to shine? was one of several events held here as part of International Women’s Day on 8th March. The panel was made up of eight women in senior positions across a range of sectors, from the civil service to the circus, and here I have made an attempt at…Continue Reading How to shine
I presented recently at a free event organised by the Information Literacy Group and the Tinder Foundation for public and academic library staff at the University of Liverpool in London. (I was quite pleased the receptionist thought I was a student). Jane Secker from LSE led the event and mentioned the Journal of Information…Continue Reading What place does digital inclusion have in digital literacy ?
E-Collections: a talk organised by CPD25 – 14/11/2015 The talk covered the following areas: • Key components in creating a Digital Library • Insight into the building of eCollections: • Web Archives, eBooks, eJournals • Activities to support their development • collating stats • Good practice and available frameworks Building a Digital Library: Understanding the…Continue Reading E-Collections