Joeyanne Libraryanne 19/03/12: Am I a librarian?
Tina's Library Related Stuff 01/03/12: A plea to CILIP
Library Quine 17/03/12: Chartership chat on Twitter
Joeyanne Libraryanne 14/03/12: Collecting chartership evidence using a Google form
The latter is v useful for me today as I develop the evidence for the portfolio. Must tell my mentor and beg her to forgive me! Life is .... difficult... at the moment. It's not an excuse, but a reason, and I must tell her as much!
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Useful posts... written by other people!
I'm getting back to thinking about my portfolio. Yes, I keep stopping-and-starting work on this, (as opposed to starting-and-then-stopping, which may be even more effective!), but I'm determined to make some progress with my rewritten Personal Professional Development Plan and the accompanying relevant evidence. Today.
I'm having a read through my Google Reader feeds for librarians' blogs. This is to inspire me or shame me into doing something. We are very lucky to have such a wonderful thing as the Internet to be able to share ideas and creativity:
I'm having a read through my Google Reader feeds for librarians' blogs. This is to inspire me or shame me into doing something. We are very lucky to have such a wonderful thing as the Internet to be able to share ideas and creativity:
- Library Quine (12/03/12) on reading habits
- Library Quine links to the InfoPeople website, as she is doing an online course with this US-based firm, which is impressive as she's based in Scotland: http://infopeople.org/welcome
- The Ryan Gosling meme blog. Is wonderful. What joy in this world: Hey girl. I like the library too. [Incidentally, is it really true that most librarians meet their partners at the circulation desk?!?!!?!?!]
- Laura's Dark Archive (01/03/12) on Libraries and the Data Protection Act
- Too much information? (08/03/12) on Shhh! and librarians, shushing generally
- The Embedded librarian (17/03/12) on embedded librarianship and public libraries [eg. "library leaders must evaluate their success in terms of their impacts on the community they serve. The other is that they must collaborate with other community organizations in order to achieve meaningful results — the “collective impact” movement."]
- Librarians on the loose (26/03/12) on the Brighton teachmeet - 'Outreach, marketing and promotion', which was exactly what my librarianship MSc dissertation was on. Rats, I missed it!
- I'll just have to look at the presentations from the Brighton Library Teachmeet here!
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Quick reflect: My first Refworks training session
I'm now really glad that I was on my own for this training session: only 2 of 4 people turned up! Both female, both very very nice DPhil students.
What have I learnt from the last hour?
1) DO NOT log on to the wireless when teaching, as the internet 'fell off' and I couldn't demonstrate, via the projector, Refworks, Write-N-Cite III etc. Always use the cable to hook up to the web, using the red ports in the group study room!
2) If there are only 2 people, and me, for the training session, then one hour is ample. Sufficient. Enough time for them to log on/ learn how to navigate around Refworks/ download references via export and import/ learn how to cite references in Word.
3) Even if I took 4 hours to prepare for this yesterday, having two cups of (instant) coffee prior to the session is still the best way to be mentally and physically prepared immediately beforehand, as then I have enough energy and I'm sufficiently awake to be prepared to tackle any funny questions!
I'm teaching with a colleague next week: Endnote - basics; 8 people; we'll have to have the tables set up as one big table, with the laptops and chairs around the edges ("dinner-table" style, as B calls it), and I'll try out the new notebook computer thingy and our mini projector, I think, to save on space [Note - this won't work! For two major reasons: a) we don't yet have the cable to connect the notebook to the mini projector. b) The notebook doesn't have Endnote on it! Oh and c) The notebook doesn't have Word, which would confuse Endnote. The notebook would be useful for the first half of the Refworks training, the online bit though. Worth bearing in mind].
We'll have up to 10 adults in our little group study room next week for Endnote, plus 9 laptops = warm environment....
I wonder what questions they'll throw at us next week?
I wonder if I need to find a powerpoint presentation to use as an introduction, or just demonstrate and get them to think of their own search queries and references to download, organise, cite?
Plan > Do > Review
Plan - for Refworks (yesterday afternoon in the main)... Do - for Refworks (today) ... Review - for Refworks, right now!
What have I learnt from the last hour?
1) DO NOT log on to the wireless when teaching, as the internet 'fell off' and I couldn't demonstrate, via the projector, Refworks, Write-N-Cite III etc. Always use the cable to hook up to the web, using the red ports in the group study room!
2) If there are only 2 people, and me, for the training session, then one hour is ample. Sufficient. Enough time for them to log on/ learn how to navigate around Refworks/ download references via export and import/ learn how to cite references in Word.
3) Even if I took 4 hours to prepare for this yesterday, having two cups of (instant) coffee prior to the session is still the best way to be mentally and physically prepared immediately beforehand, as then I have enough energy and I'm sufficiently awake to be prepared to tackle any funny questions!
I'm teaching with a colleague next week: Endnote - basics; 8 people; we'll have to have the tables set up as one big table, with the laptops and chairs around the edges ("dinner-table" style, as B calls it), and I'll try out the new notebook computer thingy and our mini projector, I think, to save on space [Note - this won't work! For two major reasons: a) we don't yet have the cable to connect the notebook to the mini projector. b) The notebook doesn't have Endnote on it! Oh and c) The notebook doesn't have Word, which would confuse Endnote. The notebook would be useful for the first half of the Refworks training, the online bit though. Worth bearing in mind].
We'll have up to 10 adults in our little group study room next week for Endnote, plus 9 laptops = warm environment....
I wonder what questions they'll throw at us next week?
I wonder if I need to find a powerpoint presentation to use as an introduction, or just demonstrate and get them to think of their own search queries and references to download, organise, cite?
Plan > Do > Review
Plan - for Refworks (yesterday afternoon in the main)... Do - for Refworks (today) ... Review - for Refworks, right now!
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