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As far as first major conferences go, I got lucky attending BLA 2015 in Liverpool. From the very beginning, meeting Samantha at Euston, where our direct train with seat bookings to Liverpool Lime Street had been cancelled and all the other trains were severely delayed, Samantha happened to be a seasoned traveler from Euston with…Continue Reading “With a little help from my [BLA] friends”: Notes from a Business Librarians Association Conference Newcomer

Three of us from City went to this event, all from the Management Information Group – we hoped it would help us to understand some of the things that we could do with the statistics we’re collecting, and also help us to identify what the right sort of things to collect are.  I’d say it…Continue Reading Data skills and statistics for librarians, cpd25, 1st June 2015

In February I went on a trip to Christ’s College, Cambridge, for an event called “Moving Into Management”, hosted by the Academic & Research Libraries Group’s eastern contingent.  It can be hard for a subject librarian to get management experience; we’re used to managing our own work and budget, as well as juggling the competing…Continue Reading Moving Into Management – ARLG East

In early April I spent a few sunny days at the LILAC Conference which this year was at Newcastle University. This is my second year at LILAC and again I was really impressed with the conference organisation and the enthusiasm of the speakers and attendees.  It was a wide and varied programme but I’ve picked out my…Continue Reading LILAC 2015 – Conference Report

At the end of March I was lucky enough to attend the IL sponsored one day workshop ‘Developing a Blended Learning Skills Programme’ at CILIP HQ in central London. The event was run by Jennie Blake and Jade Kelsall from the University of Manchester Library and focussed on their experience in creating and maintaining the…Continue Reading Developing Blended Learning

On the 4th March I went to Senate House to play games, sorry, that should read learn about games, gamification and games based learning via a symposium run by In Focus, chaired by Steven Warburton (University of Surrey) and Alex Moseley (University of Leicester). At registration we received a ‘game card’ along with our badges and…Continue Reading Playtime!

I’ve already blogged the conference overall, but there were three sessions that I particularly liked, so I thought I’d write them up in more detail.   Clarity in collaboration: making partnerships work in across-campus student skills support Employability was a theme that permeated the conference this year, as it has in the past, and as…Continue Reading Samantha’s LILAC 2014 Part 2: Bath bombs, employability and bite-size teaching

LILAC is the Librarians’ Annual Information Literacy Conference, and this year it was held in Sheffield Hallam, 8th-10th April.  As usual it was jam-packed with speakers and delegates, and was a whirlwind of ideas, information and experience sharing. I’m going to highlight specific sessions another post, but first I wanted to share with you some…Continue Reading Samantha’s LILAC 2014 Part One: Happy 10th Birthday LILAC!

Quick post: I’ve been doing a spot of Moonlighting for those lovely people at #uklibchat.  They have a monthly Twitter meet up where they discuss various issues, and this time it’s about teaching and librarianship.  They asked me to write a post about my experiences and about the FHEA award (which you can work towards…Continue Reading Blogged elsewhere: FHEA Qualifications and Teaching as a Librarian

In June I headed up to Harrogate to the annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL), the theme of which was ‘Data, data everywhere’. The first speaker of the day was Simon Lord from the Financial Times who presented the results of a research report entitled ‘The evolving value of…Continue Reading “Data, data everywhere” – review of sessions at the 45th annual BIALL conference, Harrogate