Tag Archives: staff development
Embracing an old friend: CPD23 revisited
In case you hadn’t noticed CPD23, the online professional development course for library and information professionals started running again a couple of weeks ago. Although I completed the course last year, and got my certificate (hurrah!), last week I found … Continue reading
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A summary of the ‘Conversations with Cataloguers in Wales’ event [Part 3]
So, we come to the afternoon session of the ‘Conversations with Cataloguers in Wales’ event. For this final session we had two speakers, and then a discussion slot. The first of our two speakers, Elly Cope, was sadly unable to … Continue reading
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A summary of the ‘Conversations with Cataloguers in Wales’ event [Part 2]
After a comfort break the event continued and the second session of the day started with myself (Karen Pierce) and Ken Gibb talking about Discovering hidden gems: cataloguing the Cardiff Rare Books Collection. Cardiff University (CU) acquired the collection in … Continue reading
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A summary of the ‘Conversations with Cataloguers in Wales’ event [Part 1]
On Tuesday 6th March 2012 over 40 people gathered in a room in Cardiff to talk about cataloguing. Frankly I was amazed that so many people wanted to attend an event on cataloguing in Wales, but I was also … Continue reading
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Tasting other libraries
First week back at work in 2012, and so far I’ve had two CLIC meetings, one with the steering group, and one with the staff development sub-group. The staff development group are sorting out events for the next six months, … Continue reading
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Speaker etiquette: when the clock is running…
I’ve just had some feedback from the talk I gave last week at the CLIC event, although generally positive, a couple of comments noted that it was a bit rushed, and there could have been more eye-contact. Both fair points that … Continue reading
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Light at the end of the tunnel is glowing: Thing 23 1/2
I think I may have finished cpd23, I’ve been catching up with missed Things over the last week, filling in those gaps, etc etc.; and I think I could probably go on ‘playing’ for a good few weeks yet, but … Continue reading
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Thing 23: Mirror,mirror what’s in store? Time to create a Thing 24..
I hope it’s not cheating to do Thing 23 before I’ve tidied up the wasteland of missing Things left scattered around, but as I’m being computer frustrated (see previous post), it seemed wiser to get round to some reflection, and … Continue reading
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CLIC: Social Media in Libraries (success on a zero-budget)
This week Cardiff Libraries in Co-operation (CLIC) held their Social Media in Libraries event, and I think its fair to say it was pretty successful! Over the years the CLIC Staff Development Group have been putting on various training and … Continue reading
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