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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Things I have learned…

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…

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Network, network, network

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…

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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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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 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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