Tag Archive | chartership
Reflections on copyright in academic vs commercial sectors
Note: the below was originally drafted as a short reflection to go in my Chartership portfolio. After asking on Twitter I thought a few people might be interested to see it, so I redrafted it as a blog post. Enjoy! Having spent much of my career in ‘special’/workplace libraries, when I moved to the academic sector […]
Chartership: completing the PKSB
This post is pretty long-delayed, but better late than never! This year I’ve decided to finally crack on with Chartership, following two (!) previously abandoned attempts. To this end, a couple of months ago I went through the PKSB (Professional Knowledge and Skills Base) to identify the areas I needed to focus on. I thought […]
Learning and development: (almost) mid-year update
Looking back on my post in January at my plans for learning and development this year, I’m pleased to say that, although I haven’t kept up the rate of blogging I perhaps ambitiously planned, I am well underway with so many development opportunities I will definitely have a full blog by the end of the […]
CILIP Chartership Course
I went on a “Your Guide to Chartership and Certification” course a few weeks ago, at Leeds Metropolitan University. I must admit, I didn’t go with the highest hopes – this is a compulsory course you have to do to complete chartership, so I did wonder if it might be a bit of a box-ticking […]
Thing 23: Final reflection
This post is part of 23 Things for Professional Development. I made it! I made it to the final Thing! Oh, I never thought I’d get here… There are a few tasks for this Thing, so I’m going to work through them sequentially: 1. Reflect on the programme in general and what you want to […]
Reflective writing
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a Reflective Writing course run by CILIP, as part of my chartership preparation. It was a really useful course, and I’d recommend it even if you’re not chartering – reflective practice in general is important for any kind of CPD, and this course was a useful way […]
CPD23 Thing 11: Mentoring
I’ve had 4 “official” mentors: the two mentors I was assigned when I attended the SLA conference in 2009 on the SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award; and the two chartership mentors I’ve had – one in London when I first registered for chartership, and one I’ve just met in Leeds having moved here and […]
CPD23 Thing 10: Routes into librarianship
This post is part of 23 Things for Professional Development. For Thing 10, many people have been detailing how/why they went into librarianship. I’m not going to do that now, partly because I’ve written about it before, and partly because one of the Things coming up in future weeks is the Library Routes Project, so […]
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 […]
Organising Chaos 