Tag Archive | CILIP
My experience of starting an LIS PhD
I gave a short talk this week at a CILIP Library & Information Research Group (LIRG) event, on “Routes and experiences of doing an LIS* PhD“. There were several other speakers there, all far more experienced and knowledgeable than me! The aim of my talk was simply to share a little of what my experience […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thing 7: Face-to-face networking and professional organisations
This post is part of 23 Things for Professional Development. This week’s Thing is actually two linked Things, and I consider both particularly important to my own professional development. I’m a member of several different professional associations, and find all of them valuable in different ways. One of the main things they do is give […]
A Twitter-friendly CILIP London meeting
Last week, I attended my second ever CILIP London meeting. As well as getting a chance to catch up with those members of CILIP London I already knew, and meet a few more I didn’t, I got to hear 2010 CILIP President Biddy Fisher talk about the results of the CILIP Defining Our Professional Future […]
More reflections on CILIP Yorkshire and Humberside Members Day
I’ve already jotted down some hurried first impressions of the CILIP Y&H Members Day, but I wanted to say a little bit more about the sessions I actually attended, besides the one I was co-presenting! The first talk of the day was Biddy Fisher’s welcome and keynote address. Biddy spent a bit of time talking […]
Organising Chaos 