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CPD23 Thing 10: Two out of four ain’t bad
The subtitle of the official CPD23 blog entry for Thing Ten is “Graduate traineeships, Masters Degrees, Chartership, Accreditation”. I skipped the graduate traineeship stage to go straight to the...
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CPD23 Thing Eleven: O mentor! my mentor!
When I thought about writing this post, I could only think of one mentor – my offical CILIP Chartership mentor, based at the Royal Society of Medicine Library. I approached her to be my mentor because...
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CPD23 Thing Fifteen: navigating the library conference and seminar circuit
I have a small but growing collection of etiquette books, mostly from eras now gone, and while I read them mostly out of fascination with the rituals, and for the entertainment value, I do also pick up...
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Hear Ye! CPD23! About Me! – Thing 21: Promoting yourself in job applications...
CPD23 Thing 21 begins with congratulations for getting this far in the programme. Even though it has taken me until 29 December to get this far, I’m going to accept said congratulations as a slightly...
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CPD23 – fini! Thing 23: What next?
When I realised that I would not be able to complete 23 Things for Professional Development by the original deadline in October, I decided that I would take some of the pressure off myself, by...
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The difficulty of being a Leeds International Medieval Congress newbie
In less than a month, the Leeds International Medieval Congress for 2013 will be over, and I will be back in Scotland on holiday. While the latter fills me, as ever, with the utmost glee, I cannot...
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Islamic or Insular?
This afternoon, I went to the Royal United Services Institute Library of Military History, to learn more about the cataloguing of bookbindings, a subject relevant to the development of my own library’s...
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Lessons learned from moving house
It’s been four weeks (tomorrow) since First Sibling and I moved out of our flat, and I moved into my tiny one-bedroom flat. I can’t believe so much time has passed already, and that there are still so...
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Understanding and Managing Rare Books at Dundee University
Since I first heard about this course – I think via the Rare Books and Special Collections JISC mailing list – I really wanted to sign up. I managed to be sensible, in terms of time management, and...
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Ada Lovelace Day 2014: find your inner Ada
Happy Ada Lovelace Day 2014! Do you have any plans for the day? I walked past her blue plaque (in the photo to the left) at least twice a week most weeks when I lived in London, going to and from the...
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