April 2008 - Posts

30 April 2008
A good day

Yesterday was a Good Day. Let me share it with you. It began with some decent coffee at Apostrophe, round the corner from the office, to stiffen the sinews for the task ahead. It ended with a couple of decent pints in Mabel's Tavern opposite the British Read More...

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18 April 2008
North, South..

.. East, West - when it comes to joint working, our profession is best. An opinion formed at the annual Irish conference which took place earlier this week in Athlone. The conference is organised jointly by CILIP Ireland and the Library Association of Read More...

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11 April 2008
Catch the buzz

I’m no tekkie (I always feel slightly fraudulent in gatherings of colleagues who actually understand digital information management) but there’ve been several times in my career when I’ve found myself at the meeting point where ICT connects with LIS. Read More...

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11 April 2008
So far so good

Well, is CILIP’s new Governance System a success? I’ve spent a number of days out and about in the last few weeks and this is one of the questions I’m being asked by CILIP Members. Of course it’s early days but we’ve now had three meetings of the new Read More...

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11 April 2008
Off the counter

Walking the floor in Salisbury Library was an education for someone like me who began library life as a Library Assistant (scale 1) working ‘on the counter’. Now the counter is all but gone, replaced by a cluster of self-issue machines, with staff serving Read More...

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11 April 2008
Like a dog with a bone

What do you do when you’re driving to Cornwall and find a stray dog in the middle of the road, dodging the cars and likely to be run over at any moment? Of course - you take the dog to the nearest library; which happened (because this is a true story) Read More...

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10 April 2008
Browsing Berlin

Is being a tourist like being a library user? Sometimes studying a particular subject or site, and sometimes browsing the shelves or the streets? I can recommend Berlin (where I spent last week) for both study and serendipity. For anyone with a serious Read More...

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09 April 2008
Airport

I used Heathrow Terminal 5 twice last week – outbound on day 4 and inbound on day 10 of the great airport disaster. I was lucky – neither flight cancelled, no lost luggage, and only a couple of hours delay (because of baggage handling problems) each way Read More...

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09 April 2008
Sorry

I’ve been out and about a bit recently so my blogging has slipped somewhat. Sorry about that. There’s lots to catch up on – my trip to Berlin last week (including a front-line report from Heathrow Terminal 5); my visit to Wiltshire the week before (including Read More...

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