Thing 9

I have started using Evernote long time ago and liked it very much. Then at work I discovered MS OneNote and I have abandoned Evernote for a while. It has been really interesting to go back and have a play with it, but to be honest I think - for work purposes - I'll stick to OneNote.
I find it very useful when I have to prepare presentation, leaflet, etc, generally when I do any research. It helps me put in one place all the information and organise it the way I like.
Actually I have created not long time ago Chartership notebook and started gathering my evidence linked to my development goals. Makes it much more clear and organised.
I like evernote for my more personal things, though. Especially that you 'carry' it always with you and can access it anywhere - very useful.

What's going on?

I am behind the schedule with my 23 things, but I decided not to feel bad about myself. There are two reasons why I haven't got updated my blog as often as I would like and it's not because I am being lazy:)

I am working in FE college and I can only take holidays when College is closed for students, so I had 3 weeks of holidays with very little access to internet. After coming back I started my new role as a LRC Manager/E-librarian and have been extremely busy.

It's great! but we already have plenty of inductions and organising, preparing, throwing away, creating etc etc... I am really excited about this coming year - lots of changes in whole College, LRC had changed its place in the structure and lots of changes in the LRC itself. We'll see how all that goes.

Thing 8

At work I use Outlook calendar and I find it really useful. It is easy to share and schedule meetings. I can access it from anywhere just as I would access Google calendar.

This year I will try, for the first time, to use outlook calendar to schedule inductions - the idea is to allow tutors to see available time slots and book inductions in shared calendar. We'll see if this works.

Thing 7

I went to London to my sister's graduation ceremony and the next day I was flying to my holidays. I was lucky that the same day was London event so I took the opportunity and registered.

It was really nice and well organised. Different networks were presented and that really helped me to understand 'what's there' as I am quite new to librarianship. Also I had a chance to meet and speak to some lovely people, and -surprise, surprise- we had lots in common.

The only downside was that I couldn't stay for the pub-based ending...;)

Thing 6

Just came back from lovely holidays - there is so much to catch up with cpd23!

I use Facebook in my personal life and I think I will leave it like that. I really enjoy keeping in contact with my friends, although I'm not a Facebook addict like some of them;) Still prefer to meet in 'real life' but I find it very useful to keep in touch with people that leave far away from me now. I have a rule not to add as my friend anyone who I work with.

I have signed up to Linkedin, but struggle a little bit with finding people that I could add to my network. Also layout and navigation is slightly confusing, but I will give it a go. I think it's a very powerful tool and it can help a lot in job search/career change.

I am a CILIP member and I love idea of professional networks. While Facebook for me is for my private life and Linkedin I would use to create online profile aimed at job seeking, thematic networks are something that I find useful every day. It just helps so much if you need support, look for inspirations or solutions to the problems.

India...

Just visited library in Mumbai, how did we ever live without computers??

Thing 5

Reflective writing = impossible

Unfortunately I have never been a great writer and I will always envy people who can put their thoughts into sentences effortlessly. Now it's even more difficult as English is not may native language, so whenever I would have difficulties in my mother tongue, they seem to multiply x10 (at least!:))



Reflective writing = challenge



The only thing I can do is to treat this as a challenge. I have to be able to do good reflective writing for my Chartership portfolio, so I have to 'exercise'. Blog seems to be a perfect place to do so. I have started a little bit shy, testing whole idea of having a blog - and actually writing regularly - and hopefully this can will help me develop these difficult writing skills.

Well I am 'electronic' librarian - love reading, but always been better with numbers:)