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Thing 4: Current awareness tools
OK, I’m already on Twitter (@davidclover) so lets start there. I joined Twitter initially to explore and test it’s use and application – and have since found it to be a useful part of my on going...
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Thing 5 – Reflective Practice
Well this should be an easy one – I’m described as ‘reflective’ anyway (or have been recently), and have had to be reflective when doing my chartership, in encouraging my chartership mentees to...
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A delayed Thing 6 – Online Networks
Alas real life face to face professional development and networking took over my life (so more on this in the next post) A quick reflection on online networks though. I liked the suggestion of three...
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Thing 7 – Real Life Networks
I’m a member of CILIP and was active in the University College and Research Group prior to its merger, serving on both London regional committee and then National Committee for a number of years. My...
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Thing 8 – Google Calendar
Using Google Calendar and using it well is one thing I can say I have achieved in the last year. With big thanks to my CILIP Chartership mentee Richard who in passing talked about his use of it and...
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thing 9 – a confession and an appeal for help: Evernote
Ok, so I downloaded Evernote on my Android phone…. and since then have added (but not consistently) a few names and years of wine I liked… but that is as much use as I’ve made of it. I have in my email...
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CPD in your later career (the “Old” Professionals Network)
What does CPD mean, later on in your career? So as background: I qualified in 1992 in New Zealand, worked there for 7 years in professional posts and then moved to London and carried on – mainly in...
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Thing 10 – Graduate traineeships, Masters Degrees, Chartership, Accreditation
My pathway into librarianship doesn’t go down the ‘usual’ (if it is in fact usual) UK route where the graduate trainee role remains important. At the Institute of Commonwealth Studies we did employ a...
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Thing 11: Mentoring
Following on from Thing 10, where I mentioned mentoring for the CILIP CHartership scheme briefly… but first a little about more informal mentoring. Two early mentors were one of my first bosses and a...
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Leadership and the New Science
Notes re the first Library Leadership Reading Group book: Margaret Wheatley’s Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World For more on the LLRG see...
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