Forms and fines

Today I have not been at work. However, I have been working, if you can call visiting one of our campus libraries working. I am now at home, not working, taking time off in lieu.
The visit to the library was interesting in some ways, although I’m not sure that we actually achieved very much. I’d been there before, [...]

Back again!

I am finally attempting to get back on the chartership trail, after over  a year of not doing very much chartership-related stuff at all. This was partially due to me having heart surgery and being off sick from work for about three months, but probably more a consequence of my extremely low levels of motivation!
I had [...]

Meetings, an article and a plan

Apologies for yet another change of layout. I was finding the other one a bit difficult to read! 
This week I attending a few interesting meetings. The first one was the long-awaited Information Services Committee meeting. This was actually a lot more interesting than I expected it to be, but I can’t really write about it here as [...]

Another short update

Just to report that my Head of Department has now said that it’s ok for me to attend an LMT meeting, so I will be going to the next one, which is in May. Not sure whether to look forward to it or not – should be interesting, I hope – but I might be [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]