Just for fun here’s a little reading habits meme found on the Far Off Librarian blog. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? Not much. If it’s anything it would be a cup of tea and perhaps a biscuit. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? Yes the idea of writing in books horrifies me – any kind of book mutilation horrifies me. I use post-it notes to mark pages I want to come back to. How do you keep your place while [...]
September, 2009:
Graduate Trainees
This year in Oxford we have 23 graduate trainees working in different college and OULS libraries. Last week I attended the first of their weekly training sessions. This included a discussion of their hopes and concerns for the year ahead and a presentation from a former trainee who has gone on to qualify and is now working in a government library in her first professional post. My part in the session was to talk about the use of web 2.0 tools in libraries. This was really just an overview of some of the tools being used with examples of libraries [...]
Team away day
This year I had the enviable task of organising the team away day. Last year we went on a whole day team building course which was met with little enthusiasm and didn’t produce any results as the team as was soon disintegrated (of the 8 who attended there are only 3 of us left). This year I wanted to do something completely different. What most other teams in the library service do is visit another library in the morning and then spend the afternoon doing something social as a team so I took this as my brief. I set up [...]
