I’ve been back from Dublin and the BBSLG conference for over a week now and have fully digested what I heard. From the first day two quotes have stuck in my mind and I’m going to use them to muse upon the themes of the first two keynotes. “If the future is uncertain there must be more than one future” – Anon. The first keynote was given by the futurist Oliver Freeman who focused on what librarians need to consider when planning for the future. I’m not going to delve in to the details of what he said (when I [...]
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BBSLG Members' Forum – Twitter demo
As I mentioned in my previous post, I did a quick demo of Twitter during the Members’ Forum at the BBSLG conference last week – the few slides I used can be found on Slideshare. At the beginning of the session a show of hands indicated that around 20 (approximately half of the group) people already had Twitter accounts. Of those about 10 tweeted once a week and only 2 or 3 tweeted once a day or more. This had been my suspicion and so I angled my talk to focus on why you should give Twitter another try. The [...]
BBSLG Conference 2009
For the past few days I’ve been in Dublin for the BBSLG (British Business Schools’ Librarians’ Group) annual conference. This was my first conference but as a newbie I was in the enviable position of also being a member of the organising committee which I think helped to make the experience a little less daunting. I had a great time and I hope that all the other delegates did too. I’m going to write a few more detailed posts on some of the individual sessions but I just wanted to write a quick summary first. The theme of the event [...]
