This past week or so, apart from finally getting round to painting the kitchen, I made time for reflection and goal setting. Even before a framework like ‘SMART goals’ can be applied, goal setting begins with reflection, evaluation, digging around to gain clarity of direction or focus. Through the process,...
I was the first person to bring the role of Coordinator, Evidence Based Practice at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) library role to life. But now following a career pivot into research support services at the University of the Sunshine Coast, the search for the next EBP Coordinator has begun....
Since becoming a library and information science professional, evidence-based practice has aligned with my professional values. And for the last 10 years or so, evidence-based practice has played a major role in my professional development and roles to date – it’s shaped who I am as a professional, as well...
I had another post planned to mark my return to my professional self here on the blog. And I have worked on it for a few weeks now. Oh, the pressure of the first post back! But then, this week someone advised me that an imperfect post, or a short...
This is Part 2 of a reflection mini-series on the Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference (APLIC). APLIC was held on the Gold Coast, from 30th July to 2nd August 2018. APLIC was put together by a joint effort between the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Library and Information Association of...
Before another week is overtaken by other pressing priorities and slips away from me, it is about time I put my APLIC experience into words. Or at least words beyond the tweets I sent, the notes I made on my phone, the pages of my career journal and notes from...
Reflecting, and being a reflective practitioner is incredibly important to our ongoing professional development and improvements to service delivery. Reflective practice helps us to build our knowledge and experience, make sense of it, apply new insights to our work and find ways to share among our professional community – our...
This month’s GLAM Blog Club theme is ‘balance’. If you’re unfamiliar with GLAM Blog Club, I suggest you scurry over here then come back. Good? Grab yourself a cuppa. What immediately came to my mind is the often elusive and arguably irrelevant concept of ‘work-life balance’. This is no surprise...
Last week I attended and presented at my first international conference, the CILIP Conference held in Manchester 5-6 July. At the CILIP Conference, I wore my ‘NGAC hat’ (ALIA New Generation Advisory Committee), though I presented on a topic that interests me over all my ‘hats’ – as a research...
Six weeks ago, I started my new job as Coordinator for Evidence-Based Practice in a university library. This is a newly created position that is responsible for engaging the different areas of the library service to help ensure the best available evidence is identified, gathered and applied to ongoing improvements,...
