Response to my email

Well, I emailed my boss about going to the meetings, and he said…he will see. I’m not sure what this means! He will ask about me going to Information Services Committee meetings, which is fair enough, as he is not in charge of those, but I’m not sure what there is to ’see’ about me [...]

Progress report

Last week, I finally emailed my mentor again. Fortunately, she was very understanding (being a very busy person herself). She liked the idea of a blog, too, which was encouraging.
At work, I am going to arrange some ’sittings-in’ at the Library Management Team and Information Services Committee meetings. This would mean that I attend these [...]

Time and priorities

Someone raised a good point on the chartership email list yesterday, when she asked how people manage to do things towards their chartership and actually have a life outside of work! My response was as follows:
Personally, I just don’t get the time during working hours to do career
development things such as chartership, blog-wise or otherwise! [...]

Reading about Web 2.0 technologies and information literacy

Last night, I read the article in CILIP Update about Web 2.0. This is the first out-of-work hours reading I have done for my chartership. Actually, it’s probably the only thing I have read for my chartership/professional development that isn’t directly to do with my day-to-day work! The article is about how Web 2.0 applications, [...]

The story so far

I’m a qualified librarian working in a higher education institution in the UK, and I’ve decided to try and keep a blog about my experiences of attempting to become a fully-fledged, real live Chartered Librarian (MCILIP). I have been aiming towards this goal for about three years now, and, to be quite honest, I haven’t [...]