From the 7th – 9th July I attended the annual Business Librarians Association (formerly the British Business Schools Librarians Group) conference. A week on I have finally had a chance to reflect on the three day event. Both Kirsty Taylor and Andy Priestner have already blogged in detail about the conference and I would encourage you to read their posts and also to check out the tweets from the event. The overall theme, and title for the event was The Research Agenda and under that there were three main areas covered: open access practitioner research the library’s role in supporting [...]
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Librarians as Teachers (morning session)
Today I attended the Librarians as Teachers event which was run jointly by CILIP’s CDG West Midlands division and UC&R West Midlands section. The purpose of the event was to look at the status and role of librarians delivering teaching and practical ways librarians can develop their teaching skills and gain recognition for the teaching they do. There were many people tweeting the event and much of what follows in my reflection of the event can be found in the archive of #lat10 tweets. The day started with Antony Brewerton of the University of Warwick giving us a walking tour [...]
CILIP New Professionals' Conference
It’s over a week since I attended the New Professionals’ conference jointly run by CILIP’s Career Development Group and the Diversity Group. Waiting a week to blog was a good plan because Laura has done the hard work blogging on the whole conference in 3 excellent posts over on Organising Chaos. I’m not going to try and match that so here are just a few of my observations from the day. First up was Katie Hill talking about the consumer generation. The consumer generation knows what it wants and how to get it as well as what standards and services [...]
