Looking back and looking ahead
Inspired by Suzanne Wheatley’s post on Information Today, I thought I’d use my traditional* end-of-year post to not just set goals for 2013, but to look back on some of my achievements in 2012. This has been an incredibly difficult year for a number of reasons, some public and some not, so it seems like […]
Influencing through networking
At the Ark Group conference, the last presentation of the day was from freelance trainer Nick Davies, on “Influencing through Networking”. Nick is a very engaging speaker, and very funny, so it was a great way to round off the day! I doubt I’ll have captured any of his humour in my notes, but I […]
Ark Group Conference: Managing Your Law Firm Library
On 29 November, I spoke on a panel at the Ark Group’s Managing Your Law Firm Library conference. As a speaker, I got to attend the whole conference – which turned out a bit odd, as I’d accepted a new job just a day before the conference, which meant I’d be leaving the law library […]
New job!!!
I have an announcement to make: I am leaving the law library sector and starting a brand new job! As of January, I will be the Research and Information Officer for Brake, the road safety charity. I am hugely excited about this new role. It’ll be a big change for me: no more corporate law! […]
Open Rights Group
As an information professional, I am both interested in and hugely concerned about digital rights and information rights. That is why for the past few years, I’ve been a member of campaign organisation Open Rights Group (ORG). ORG is a non-profit, campaigning on everything from “e-voting to copyright, open data and privacy”. We live in […]
SLA Europe talk: Engaging with social media for fun and career success
Last week, I did a talk for SLA Europe on “Engaging with social media for fun and career success”, alongside co-panellists Meghan Jones and Neil Infield. It went pretty well, I think – and was filmed, so will be available to the wider world fairly soon! Eep… In the meantime, here is, more or less, […]
Fundraising for Winston’s Wish
I have been trying to keep this blog solely for professional stuff for a while, and keeping the personal stuff for my other blog, so please forgive this brief, off-topic post… Regular readers will know that I lost my sister, Mandi, earlier this year. In her memory, on 15 September I will be taking part […]
LIKE North and ILIG Workshop: Living and Working Overseas – Storify
On Tuesday 31 July, LIKE North and CILIP ILIG ran a free workshop on living and working overseas. Speakers were Lisa Jeskins, Kirsten Gallagher, Susan Mottram and Michelle Bond. I’ve put together a Storify of tweets from the evening – unfortunately I can’t embed it here, but you can view it in full by clicking […]
BIALL/NetIKX Seminar: The Future of Copyright
Back in May I attended a seminar jointly run by BIALL and NetIKX, on “The Future of Copyright”. It was fairly timely for me as I’d just taken over as copyright officer within my team at work, so a refresher seemed like a good idea! There were two speakers: Charles Oppenheim, on changes to copyright […]
