I’m an information services advisor for a law firm in Leeds, having recently relocated to the North from London. My role currently involves bits and pieces of legal research, market intelligence, training provision and general information wrangling. This blog is a space for me to record my reflections on courses, talks and conferences I’ve attended, and witter on about work, libraries and librarianship in general, and anything else that catches my interest. I’m always interested in starting conversations with other information professionals: I don’t like to publicise my email address, but I’m on Twitter as @WoodsieGirl or you could always leave me a comment here!
Oh, and all views expressed are my own, etc.
Hi
I wondered if you’re a member of Cilip and submitting a paper proposal for the new professionals conference? I’ve been emailing with Jo Alcock and she highly recommends it, so here I go!
Now that you have your MSc, do you find it frustrating being an Information Assistant rather than Librarian? I recently passed up the opportunity to apply for a Subject Librarian post in my library (University of Plymouth) and now I am absolutely kicking myself!
Anyway, great blog
Take care
Venessa
http://scarlettlibrarian.wordpress.com
To answer your questions Vanessa – yes, yes, and …sort of. I am keeping my eye out for professional posts to apply for – although there isn’t much out there at the moment! – but I do enjoy the job I’m in right now. Plus, as we’re such a small team I do get to do more than I would at IA level in, say, an academic library, and my colleagues know I’m keen to learn so they’re good at giving me more stuff to do!
Good luck with the NPC2010 proposal – I submitted mine last week. Will probably go to the conference even if my proposal isn’t accepted (went last year, would highly recommend!) so I may see you there
Thanks for replying, and I just wanted to let you know, I’m featured in the cilip Gazette in the MyWeek section, and I do mention your blog!
Venessa
Hi woodsiegirl, I posted about something you said during a conference and I thought it would be polite to tell you! http://wp.me/p1KgMv-O
Thanks for letting me know! Think it might actually have been Ned Potter (@theREALwikiman) who said that though – hard to remember as it’s from a join presentation we did, but it does have the ring of one of Ned’s lines to me!
Dear Laura,
This is probably a very long shot, but we PR professionals often take aim from afar! I am publicising a book called ‘The Business of Law’, published in association with the IBA.
It is a multi-contributed volume and covers some current legal issues such as ‘surviving in the credit crunch’; ‘women & the law’; ‘internationalisation’; and ‘CSR’.
Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you would like to see a Media Pack (I won’t invite you to the London launch as you are based in Leeds). Last but not least, I read your post about how you stumbled upon librarianship, it rings a bell even though my field is PR.
Best wishes,
Martha Halford-Fumagalli MCIPR
Martha Halford PR
Thanks Martha. I’m not involved in purchasing books for my library, but will certainly mention this to our acquisitions librarian and see if there’s any interest.