**Warning: naval gazing and more than a little self-congratulation So on Dec 14th 2012 I finally hung up my Mimas boots and went for it. I’d been working freelance one day a week for a year and decided to go…
I wanted to share a few links with you that I’ve found particularly useful or interesting. Businesses and self-employed section of the government website: https://www.gov.uk/browse/business, particularly the setting up section and the video on writing business plans. Creative choices. This has…
Many of you will have seen on Twitter last week that I’m going to take the plunge and start freelancing full time from January. I believe this may be momentous decision number 2 in the space of a year… Starting…
Beach at Gale, Portugal ok so I’ve been at this whole freelance training thing for a whole month now and haven’t actually done any training yet, but I’ve had a pretty productive few weeks and have learnt a lot. I…
Flickr:Photo by zzathras777 Today I met with Janice Tullock (Janice Tullock: Archive and Heritage Consultants) who offered to meet with me to discuss setting up as a freelancer. I’ve met up with a couple of people who freelance already and…
Hello 2012. Happy New Year to you all. Photo courtesey of Lisa Charnock. I’m starting out 2012, incredibly motivated and excited. But then, 2012 is the year of the momentous decision. Well, when I say momentous I really mean incredibly…
I’ve decided to become a chartership mentor. (the title gave it away didn’t it?) I’ve been talking to a lot of people recently about mentoring. About having mentors and about being a mentee. About formal mentoring and informal mentoring and…
@theREALwikiman asked if I could give some advice to librarians wanting to work abroad for a couple of queries from LIS New Professionals Network. Overnight I was mulling it over and decided that it might make a useful blog post.…
During the last few months of the InfoSkills project I had decided to look at working abroad again. I had a friend that lived in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and I had a yen to work where the…
What happened next? Well I spent a very happy 6 months at the library at Ridge Danyers 6th Form College in Cheadle. Carol, the librarian and Dorothy, the library assistant were fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed re-cataloguing the foreign language…