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...
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...
It’s been over a month now since I arrived home from a six-month traveling sabbatical. My sabbatical was time away from everyday life and career, to focus on myself for a while, give me space to recharge, reset, reconsider what is important to me and what I want to achieve....
G’day all! I’m popping in to share some news – I’ll be presenting at the CILIP Conference in July! ….and this is the only work I’m allowed to do on sabbatical. (though just now I’ve found another conference in the UK I’d really, really like to attend but the dates fall...
I don’t officially leave the country until Sunday morning. But while I have the hubby doing some packing and a beer next to me…..wait, did I say that out loud?! I meant to say ‘tea’. 🙂 I’m getting in a few farewells. I’m terrified. I’m scared. Why oh why did...
Completing a LIS qualification (or other discipline) to enhance your career prospects is a massive undertaking that requires time, energy and support from those around you. Study, in itself is a professional development activity. This simple realisation didn’t come to me until perhaps my final year of the LIS Masters...
Every now and then I’ll have a not so great day at work. A meeting might not have gone the way I envisioned, I didn’t speak up or I’m not on the same page as others, I didn’t know about something and probably should have, or something wasn’t completed on...
Coming up to a half year and it’s time to review my (personal) professional development plan. The professional development plan is a document just for me. Something ‘on paper’ that guides decision making and charts my progress. I review my professional development plan every six months. And my professional development...
Back in January, I shared my ambitions for this blog going forward: I realised I don’t share what I know and what I’m working on often enough. Nor do I share my reflections on learning and issues I see coming out of the news and publications….so I’m thinking there are...
