Librarian. Researcher. Well-being advocate. Evidence-based practice is my jam.
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,…
