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One day at Umbrella
Last week, I was delighted to be able to spend a day at Umbrella. I was speaking in a session in the afternoon, alongside Ned Potter, on the echo chamber. That’s something I’ve talked about plenty on this blog before, so I’m not going to go over it again here (although please do go and […]
CILIP Umbrella: Thoughts
So, having finally finished blogging my sessions from CILIP Umbrella (and about to start on the 2000 words UKeIG have asked for in return for their generous sponsorship), I guess I should try and jot down some general impressions on the conference. Overall, it was an interesting experience. Smaller in scale than SLA (obviously – […]
CILIP Umbrella: Second Life
My final session I attended was on “Professional inspiration to join the communities of Second Life”. I went along to this one out of pure curiosity – I’d never used Second Life at all, I didn’t really understand what it was for and I absolutely didn’t get how it could be a useful tool for […]
CILIP Umbrella: Continuing Professional Development
On the Wednesday I was up bright and early (and only slightly hungover…) for a session on Continuing Professional Development and mentoring for chartership. The first section, on CPD, was lead by Carol Barker. Carol mentioned the CILIP CPD scheme, explaining that it is not yet finalised so the speakers could only speculate as to […]
CILIP Umbrella: Professional Education in the 21st Century
My final session of the day was a panel discussion on “Professional Education in the 21st Century”. As a current LIS student, I was looking forward to hearing what the panellists thought we should be studying, and how this compared with my experience at City. The four panellists were all LIS employers, from four different […]
CILIP Umbrella: Access to Government Information
After the first-timers lunch (a great opportunity to chat to some fellow newbies!) I went to a session on access to UK government information. This is a topic I’m quite passionate about, so I was interested to hear about the current initiatives to make public information more accessible. There were two speakers in this session: […]
CILIP Umbrella: Day One – morning
Another week, another conference… Tuesday and Wednesday this week were spent at the CILIP Umbrella conference in Hatfield. I’d been looking forward to this one: not having been to many CILIP events, I was interested to see what they had to offer. The conference programme looked very broad (although being CILIP there was a heavy […]
