Posted in Library, Professional Associations, Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It seemed like it would take forever for this time to arrive, but it soon caught up, and I have now commenced the first day of my “new life” as a ??? maternity leave person? impending mother? ummm, I’m not quite sure how to word it. I don’t want to use the words housewife…I still [...]
Posted in Intranet, Launch, Leadership, Library, NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Professional Associations, Professional Development, Web 2.0 on February 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Hi there happy readers / bloggers,
Happy New Year !! Yes, this is my first blog for 2008, and I feel terrible that it’s already February, but I have been contemplating the content for this blog this year. However, a few bloggers have commented that they love my blog - thanks for that - and I’ll [...]
Posted in Library, NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Professional Associations, Technology, Web 2.0 on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
The NLS4 Team is humming along and we have made alot of progress over the last few months, including:
Confirming the date and venue, December 5th and 6th 2008 at CQ Functions, in Melbourne, Victoria
An email subscription list to stay up to date
Launched the call for Abstracts, to get people thinking over their Christmas break
Announced the [...]
Posted in Professional Associations, Web 2.0 on October 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
At work we have been using a team wiki for close to two years and it’s proved to be a great workspace where information, passwords and procedures can be stored. I even co-wrote a conference paper with Iggy on our work wiki. It proved to be more effective than emailing each other a word document. [...]
Posted in Intranet, Library, Professional Associations, Professional Development on October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What time of year? you ask… It’s performance review time.
This time of year, usually sends many staff into belly loads of groans. I myself, grapple with the amount of various paperwork we have to fill in, and get a bit confused with the whole process and wonder “will this ever amount to anything?”
Well, this year [...]
Posted in Library, Professional Associations on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Yay, Donna and Katy have published edition 3 of the Vic Specials Newsletter, here is the link for the newsletter, http://alia.org.au/groups/specialvic/vicspecials/
Here they give a blurb of what’s contained in this edition,
We’ve got some really interesting articles, including a review of our
second site visit to the SBS library, and an interview with a librarian
who takes research [...]
Posted in Launch, NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Professional Associations on August 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last night at the ALIA 70th Birthday celebrations in Melbourne, our team launched the NLS4 Melbourne 2008 website. About a month ago, we set 20 August as the date for launching the website, as it made good sense to launch it when we had a captive audience, and why not also perform this at our [...]
Posted in NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Professional Associations on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
As a result of one of the many interviews I was involved in a few weeks ago, our team has selected ICMS as the PCO (Professional Conference Organiser) for the NLS4 Melbourne 2008 Conference. (NLS=New Librarians Symposium) The PCO will take alot of the headache out of organising the conference for us newbies. It can [...]
Posted in Professional Associations, Uncategorized on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Gee, May has seen my professional involvement increase dramatically. Now I need more spare time when I’m at home after work, on the train, and anywhere else I can snatch a few moments. Luckily I don’t watch much TV, the only thing that really gets in the way is making dinner, ensuring we have a [...]
