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Whitstable
The above photo was taken on a trip to Whitstable today. I’m never really too sure about photos where one colour is picked out, but it was such a dull day I felt like the red would really benefit from...
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Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum
Yesterday we took the kids to the Natural History Museum in London. It’s been a long time since I last visited the museum and, of course, the dinosaur exhibit was high on the agenda. The above photo...
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Pitching ideas to peers and confident communication
Image c/o Howard Lake on Flickr – CC BY-SA. Today we had a staff development day at the Boleyn Ground (West Ham’s football stadium if you aren’t into that sort of thing). The day featured a number of...
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Event planning and workshop preparation…
Image c/o Michael Cory on Flickr. The summer should, in theory, be a quiet time for a subject librarian. Of course, it’s not at all as there are plenty of things to prepare before the next academic...
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Keywords – crowd sourcing search terms
Word clouds can be helpful! As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m starting to look at adapting my literature searching workshops for the coming year so they are a little different and more…”me”. One...
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Subject librarian – the difficult second year
Image c/o Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. on Flickr (used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license) Unbelievably, I’m already approaching my second year as a subject librarian in HE. It seems hard to believe that I am...
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Upcoming talks and workshops…
(Image c/o Jeffrey Beall on Flickr.) Been a bit busy of late due to start of term and a journal article I’m currently working on (more on that when I can). But a couple of speaking gigs have cropped up...
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Information Skills Workshops
(Image c/o markus spiske on Flickr.) I’ve banged on a little bit in the past about using Mentimeter as a live polling tool with students in my workshops – particularly in terms of crowd-sourcing...
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A little while ago I was approached by the Kent branch of CILIP to deliver a tour of my library and run a workshop similar to that which I ran at the NAG conference last year. I was a little bit...
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All being well, right about now I should be delivering a presentation at the first LISDIS conference about my dissertation on volunteer run libraries and the digital divide (turns out I posted this...
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Digital divide, Edward Snowden and MmIT
Image c/o meeshelle on Flickr. Just a quick post to prove that this blog still exists as a thing and hasn’t been completely forgotten about. Part of the reason for the forlorn nature of both my main...
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Promoting your library on Facebook and Instagram
Shake it like a Polaroid picture…or something. Image by Martin Martinsson on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) For a long time I’ve not really talked about Facebook Pages when I’ve been speaking at events and...
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Anatomy of a library induction teaser trailer
Image c/o Barbara Mazz on Flickr. A couple of days ago I had the idea of creating a short library induction advert for the start of the new year. The plan for the coming year in terms of social media...
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Creating video to promote library services
Image c/o Garret Voight on Flickr As I noted in a previous post, one of the things that we’ve really focused on over the summer in preparation for the coming year is putting together some fresh video...
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Using images and video on social media
As I’ve noted in previous posts, we’ve been working quite hard on our Instagram and YouTube presence over the past few weeks, to the extent that the former has now become one of our most important...
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Using Instagram in libraries…
Image c/o Colton Witt on Flickr. I’ve not been posting much on here this year (hello start of academic year), but that’s not to say that not much has been happening. Of course we launched our new...
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Doing a MOOC thing…on photography
I’m generally not one for signing up for online courses. I did one a little while back and although it was interesting, I don’t think I really gained a lot from it and I certainly wasn’t able to engage...
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