Three weeks

There is just under three weeks until the date I am supposed to be handing my portfolio in in order to attain my appraisal objective of handing it in to CILIP  by 5th June this year. I am continuing the sorting process, trying to categorise potential evidence and think about which pieces of evidence I [...]

Assertiveness training

Yesterday, I went to London for a CILIP-run course on “Assertiveness for Managers”. I’m still in denial about being a  manager, but I do supervise people and I definitely need to be more assertive, so I thought that going on the course would be a good idea.
I think that it was a good idea, because [...]

Some changes

From Monday, 7th January, I will be working as the Faculty Liaison Librarian (FLL) for Education four days a week, while the real FLL is on secondment elsewhere in the University until the end of March.
I decided to apply for the post because I’d like to move into the faculty liaison/subject librarian field of work, so [...]

Soggy librarians?

Well, not really. We actually managed to avoid the rain for the most part, I think. I just got absolutely drenched, though. Anyway, I am now dry and must put off writing about Umbrella no longer! I’m afraid this might be a bit of a ‘I did this and then I did this’ sort of [...]

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! [...]