Since graduating from the LIS Masters program in 2013 I’ve embarked on re-discovering interests outside of my work and professional involvement activities. Some I let go to make way for study and some that faded away during a not so great part of my life in my mid-teens and I really...
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...
Reflecting on the progress of a significant work project, research skills are what I’ve drawn upon the most in ensuring the success of project outcomes. Research skills are probably the most important for any information professional. If you haven’t yet developed an understanding of how do undertake a research project...
The beginning of the working week for me usually involves waiting oh so patiently in traffic as I make my way through and to the south side of town where I work my day job, currently a policy role. Stepping off the bus on Adelaide Street in Brisbane’s CBD and...
I’m a little excited. There are a number of reasons why. One of them is my research project this semester. I’ll be looking into the role of innovation in archival institutions. I’m looking forward to the findings. And I’m looking forward to graduating. But that’s another story, and not the...
I have a deadline. A self-imposed deadline, but a deadline nonetheless. I need to have drafted my reporting for my research project by tomorrow evening. It is during these times I can struggle to find and maintain the calm. Finding the calm is about having (and maintaining) a clear mind...
This week will be week 14 of the semester. For a lot of people completing studies, it will be the last week of semester. Not for me, unfortunately. I still need to finish data collection and analysis for my research project and complete my reporting. The aim, or deadline I’ve...
This semester I’ve chosen to study a unit called Practical Applications of Research which, recommended by my course co ordinator, will hopefully provide me an overview of research. I’m doing this as an introduction to the language and to get a grasp on key concepts and frameworks that will underpin...
All I can think of right now is record keeping and information literacy. Over the last few weeks I’ve been in ‘record keeping mode’ both at work and at home, completing a university assessment piece – an Information Literacy plan. I will admit information literacy was, and has been difficult...
