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 [...]
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Library Day in the Life – Thursday 28 & Friday 29 January 2010
Liverpool Hilton Originally uploaded by ekcragg Unfortunately I failed in my attempts to take a photo a day this week for the Library Day in the Life project. In fact, Thursday is the first day since New Year’s Day that I haven’t taken a photo. Thursday was just one of those days. Although it is very nice to be out of the office for a day every now and again I find that it often makes the day before a running around like a headless chicken day. To make things doubly hard I spent the afternoon shift (13.00 – 17.00) [...]
Library Day in the Life – Wednesday 27 January 2010
Computer Training Room (2) Originally uploaded by ekcragg Next week we have a trainer coming in to run a workshop on Datastream; so this morning I spent 1.5 hours attempting to get the training room ready. This involved installing the Datastream software on all of the PCs, well in theory it did. Unfortunately through faults of the hardware, software and I am sure my own incompetence I only managed to get four done. Thankfully a colleague had done five yesterday so now we only have six to go. Can you tell I held my breathe writing that?! The rest of [...]
