We’ve been having a series of discussions at MPOW about what the Library service should look like in five years time. I get the vibes that this is expected to be radically different from what we’re doing now, but so far no-one has come up with any idea that’s drastically different from what we already [...]

A few weeks ago (well about 6 or so now…) I bought an Asus eee as my vista laptop stopped booting - major problem when trying to use it! I got the linux version of it as a friend of mine was very insistent in his advocacy of the use of linux and the eee [...]

I have been playing around with my blog today and changing the theme, and whilst I was doing that I noticed that I started this blog on the 21st August 2007, so it has been going for more than a year! I have been somewhat sporadic at posting during that time - recently I have [...]

I’ve been working half time on a project at MPOW to change our enquiry management system. It has been very interesting and a good learning experience, as I’ve been involved in sorting out the technical specification we need as well as coordinating training for everyone and keeping everyone aware of what was going on with [...]

I’m working to replace our enquiry management system with the one that is being used across the rest of the University. For this I’ve spent the last two days with members of the team who look after the new system talking to different people across the Library so that they can get an idea of [...]

I’ve been thinking about this post for a while (well it’s now just over a month since I heard my Chartership submission had been accepted), but I’ve been finding it difficult to work out what I want to say about it! After having spent so long doing (or supposedly doing) my Chartership it is a relief [...]

Well, I’ve sent my Chartership submission off to CILIP, so now I’m just waiting to hear back from them and trying to ignore the niggly little voices in my head telling me that I haven’t referenced my documents properly in the introduction - I daren’t look and check if I have though!! So now that I’ve [...]

Today we’ve celebrated the fact that one of my colleagues has worked in the Library here for 25 years. She told us some funny stories and provided us with lots of chocolate and cake, which was very kind of her. But it did make me think - 25 years ago I was 18 months old, [...]

Well, it’s almost the end of another week, which seems to have been surprisingly productive, considering how busy I thought it was going to be at the beginning of the week. Not that it hasn’t been busy, I’ve just managed to get more done inbetween that I’d thought I would! And now I’m looking forward [...]

I think I now have all the documents together that are going to be in my portfolio, with introduction and Table of Contents and everything! A couple of them I need to print out another copy, as they’ve been revised, but overall I have a nice shiny blue file filled with paper that I can [...]