Decolonising the LIS curriculum: starting the conversation, a guest post by Briony Birdi
Decolonisation has become a key aspect my work as an LIS [Library and Information Science] academic and as the Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the Faculty of Social … Continue reading
Open Licensing in Libraries, guest post by Simon Bowie
In 2018, I was asked to speak about open licensing at UKSG 41st Annual Conference in Glasgow. I decided to combine my work in librarianship with my part-time MA in … Continue reading
The argument against Chartership by Jen Bayjoo
After observing a Twitter conversation discussing the merits of professional registration we thought we would tackle the subject of Chartership, looking at the reasons for and those against. The second part of this … Continue reading
The argument in favour of Chartership by Daniel Livesey
After observing a Twitter conversation discussing the merits of professional registration we thought we would tackle the subject of Chartership looking at the reasons for it and those against. The … Continue reading
Shona Thoma: Negotiation Skills
Shona Thoma is an IReL Officer at the Irish Research eLibrary, Dublin. The following post was originally published as “Negotiation – not as alien as you might think” on Shona’s … Continue reading
Survey: New Professionals and Social Media
New professionals we need you! If we could issue a ‘bee’ call in the sky right now, we would. Helen and Amy have created a survey that looks at … Continue reading
Partnership development
The purpose of this blog post is to share my experiences of developing partnerships and working collaboratively. I am currently pursuing Chartership and have chosen partnership development as an area … Continue reading
A great week for advocacy for the profession :D
If you haven’t seen them there have been two pieces in the media this week advocating for our profession. This is both exciting and refreshing to see positive pieces gaining media attention which … Continue reading
Interview presentations
I was invited to 4 interviews in the course of my job-hunting, 3 of those interviews included a practical element. 2 were for school libraries (I wasn’t able to attend … Continue reading
Should a post-graduate qualification be an essential pre-requisite for a professional library post? The argument in favour.
I have started this post several times. In fact, this post should have been available to read a while ago, but I have been stalling. Why? I find the current … Continue reading
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