June 2nd, 2009:

Laura has just started a new job as Deputy Manager of Staff Development at OULS (Oxford University Library Services). Listening to her talk about her new role has started me wondering who is responsible for my continuing professional development (CPD)? It would be easy to say that the responsibility lies with staff development and leave it at that but I think it’s more complicated than this. For me there are at least two elements to continuing professional development. The first is firmly in my own hands: it’s about engaging with the wider community, sharing and learning from each other’s experience. [...]