Good news…

I got an email the other day to say that I passed my chartership! I’m very glad and slightly surprised! Thanks to anyone and everyone who helped me.

Posted!

Well, I finally finished my portfolio and posted it off yesterday. I got the Mentor Completion Form back from my mentor and had some very helpful comments from one of the Candidate Support Officers. I was able to make some changes to my Evaluative Statement in light of her comments, so really it was just [...]

Just quickly

Just a quick post to say that I have actually done some stuff for my chartership this week. I’ve been categorising pieces of evidence for my portfolio using the assessment criteria and filing it both digitally and in hard copy. I’ve also finished writing my record of training courses, etc. and have started writing up [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]