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Introduction to Management in LIS and IT
Last week I spent three days on a Leadership Foundation for HE course on management, specifically aimed at Library and IT people working as middle management for the first time. I’ve always enj… more →
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Introduction to Management in LIS and IT
wrote 3 weeks ago: Last week I spent three days on a Leadership Foundation for HE course on management, specifically ai … more →
World Cat Local and ILL - a paper review
wrote 3 weeks ago: Thanks to Keith for pointing me in the direction of this article WorldCat Local implementation: the … more →
CILIP Editorial Panel
wrote 1 month ago: Probably one for our external librarian readership (since I’ve already been on this for the pa … more →
The Ongoing Open Access Debate in the THE
wrote 1 month ago: Good article in the Times Higher today on the open access debate. Required reading I suspect for an … more →
Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability report
wrote 1 month ago: I’ve just finished reading the OCRIS final report, a weighty 74 page document that looks at th … more →
FIL @ the BL: November 2009
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wrote 1 month ago: On Friday (6th November) I went down to the British Library (BL) conference centre to attend the For … more →
Open Access Week: Federal Research Act
wrote 2 months ago: Those following the developments in open access and scholarly research publication often look to the … more →
Libraries and social networking - what's been successful?
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wrote 3 months ago: Next week I’m delivering a talk to some librarians in the region about social networking using … more →
Glyndwr University's new librarianship foundation degree
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wrote 3 months ago: Last week I took the plunge and took the long train ride to Wales and Wrexham. I went over to appea … more →
Librarian Twitterers and other news
wrote 3 months ago: Useful post by Phil Bradley with a 100 librarian twittering types in the UK. I don’t think it … more →
Hail and farewell...or not
wrote 5 months ago: There comes a time when you know you need to move on. And following a job interview today, well tha … more →
The End of Institutional Repositories! (or not)
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wrote 5 months ago: I’ve just been reading an article “Basefsky, Stuart. (2009). The end of institutional re … more →
Libraries of the Future dissected
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wrote 5 months ago: Watching the recently released JISC Libraries of the Future video. Some reactions and thoughts, wit … more →
Sharing the Web 2.0 experience
wrote 5 months ago: In between heading off to what seems like a conference a week at the moment, I’ve taken a mome … more →
CILIP Umbrella 2009 (Part 2 of 2)
wrote 5 months ago: After a good breakfast the final day of the conference began with more breakout sessions. Maltesers … more →
CILIP Umbrella 2009 (Part 1 of 2)
wrote 5 months ago: This Tuesday and Wednesday I went down to CILIP Umbrella for the biennial all UK libraries conferenc … more →
UHMLG (University Health and Medical Librarians Group) Conference 2009
wrote 6 months ago: Last week I enjoyed a very brief visit to this small and friendly conference of health librarians. … more →
JISC Landscape Study
wrote 7 months ago: Hopefully you’ll have spotted the announcement that UKOLN on behalf of the JISC are doing a st … more →
Learning and Teaching in the Sciences Unconference
wrote 7 months ago: This morning I went off to the Learning and Teaching in The Sciences Unconference. What is an confe … more →
