Librarian. Researcher. Well-being advocate. Evidence-based practice is my jam.
There have been a few posts floating around #blogjune about first library jobs. I’d like to join in and share my story about my first library job – how I landed it, my first experiences and my advice to new information professionals. Was it in a public library? Nope. Was…
The Information Architecture and Digital Libraries series is now up to Part 4. The previous three posts have discussed: – The (potential) role of information architecture principles and practices for digital libraries; Understanding the information environment as a key enabler of information architecture implementation, and Defining findability, its role in…
I have a paper to write and present for a half-day conference happening in Brisbane next month – ALIA People Power. One of the themes is ‘out of the ordinary’ library roles. Well, mine is exactly that. I’ve been asked from time to time, mostly at networking events, what a…
For today’s #blogjune post I had plans to write something meaningful, something compelling and with more purpose than what I’m about to write. Instead, all I can think about is work and my day. I’ve only just arrived home, so I guess I haven’t had a chance to wind down…
For my last assignment for the semester, I had chosen to look at information architecture for digital libraries. I suggested a framework, defining each element’s role, relationships between them and arranging them in a way that constitutes a “big picture” of information architecture principles and practice. In a series of…
