Freelancing fulltime
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…
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The momentous decision
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…
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Enable, encourage and enthuse… or becoming a CILIP mentor.
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…
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Working abroad…
@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.…
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Library Routes 3: Far Flung Libraries and Back Again.
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…
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Library Routes 2: Early Career
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…
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Better late than never: my library roots/routes
After all this talk about the New Professionals Conference 2010 I’m left thinking – “huh they didn’t have this when I was a lass” (well, 25) and “JEALOUS!!!” I would like to point that we didn’t have one of these…
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