Last week I attended a symposium on Personalised Library Services in Higher Education. It was run by Andy Priestner (Library and Information Centre Manager, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) and Libby Tilley (Librarian, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge). Andy and Libby had an article, Boutique libraries at your service, published in CILIP Update last year and were subsequently commissioned by Ashgate to edit a book on the same topic. The purpose of the symposium was to explore the boutique model which had been set out in the article and develop ideas around the themes of each chapter. The [...]
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Lean and Mean Library Machine
Last week I presented at the CILIP UC&R West Midlands event Lean and Mean Library Machine. More on that coming soon… for now here are my notes from the rest of the event. First up was Dave Parkes from Staffordshire University. He presented some ideas for how library services as a whole can and will need to adapt in the face of large scale cuts and the changing educational climate. As librarians have always had to deal with change he thinks we are uniquely placed to cope with the cuts ahead. How we do this is by upgrading our skills [...]
Who is responsible for my CPD?
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. [...]
