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 [...]
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New home
Wow, I’ve finally done it and moved my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org and you know what, it really wasn’t that hard. The hardest part was trying to choose a theme from the thousands now available to me! For those of you who have ever wondered how the transition works here’s a brief run down of the steps I’ve taken today: 1. Found a host – DreamHost – and set up an account. This includes registration of a domain. 2. Used the one-click install available from DreamHost to set up wordpress.org 3. Followed the instructions sent by email from DreamHost [...]
Blogging librarians
Almost half of the feeds I subscribe to are from blogs written by librarians or library students. There was a time when the majority of the library blogs I subscribed to were written by Americans, or at least librarians working in the US. Since the CILIP2 event this has changed. From that I not only connceted with a lovely bunch of UK based librarians through Twitter but I found a raft of new blogs written by UK librarians to subscribe to. Sometimes I think people think I’m crazy reading so many library blogs, especially as I do it in my [...]
