Librarian. Researcher. Well-being advocate. Evidence-based practice is my jam.
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…
Making decisions can be difficult. Making decisions can be uncomfortable. Even if we know the likely outcome of a decision, there is still a leap into the unknown. The unknown, or an unknown state is what makes decisions sometimes scary. We may not have all the information. We may not…
A project is a planned piece of work, involving the completion of a set of interrelated tasks in order to achieve a purpose, goal or particular outcome. Managing projects is part of our work as library and information professionals. We all manage projects. Some are short term, others are long…
I don’t write, I don’t write, and I don’t write (here, anyway) and then I hit a point where I feel absolutely compelled to write. I burst. My desk in my study is cluttered. I can’t stand clutter. There’s so much going on right now, I have project files all…
I write every day in my diary. I reflect often. And on days when I try to find something on the bottom of my handbag, I find a scrap a paper with a blog post idea scribbled on it. The purpose of #blogjune for me is now more about connecting…
