My brain has been in a whirl much of the past three days as I’ve been following the twitter stream coming out of a major Australian library conference (VALA 2016) going on in Melbourne. I had colleagues from my new workplace presenting four different papers, two of which were on projects that fall into my area…
There’s pretty much universal agreement that professional development is a good thing. It helps keep skills and knowledge relevant, exposes you to new ideas and people and these combine to help make your career rewarding and interesting. I don’t disagree with any of this. In fact, one of my major professional development activities is actually to…
I currently have a research project for work related to copyright and licencing for digital repositories. Essentially, what do we need to know at MPOW to make sure we keep up with industry best practice and best meet the needs of those depositing to our repositories? I’ve been working on this on and off since…
Trust me. No, this is a reflection of the level of enthusiasm we were asked to have as part of our data management subject at Uni this semester. Our first assignment was to write a press release explaining research data management to the general public in a way that wouldn’t send them straight to sleep.…
I seem to remember promising some sort of #newjob update. As I’ve now been there nearly 2 months (time flies!) it’s a good time to stop and think about what I’ve learned and what I’m doing. I’m reading and reading and reading about research data management, funding body requirements, data management planning and data citation…
This semester, in my quest for a postgraduate qualification, I’m doing a subject called Value Added Information Services. Turns out this more or less covers what we do all day every day as LIS professionals, but with a slight twist towards a kind of business advisory service. Anyway, I’ve chosen to look at the feasibility…
OK. So the ‘thing’ for 2012 seems to be coding. Everybody is either doing it, or urging others to do it, or writing, blogging or tweeting about doing it. Roy Tennant over at Digital Shift says all library professionals need to at least understand coding & urges us to try out Codeacademy’s Code Year initiative.…
This post is my final entry for the Social Media subject for my Masters and is designed to both evaluate and reflect on my learning throughout the semester. As library and information professionals there is no doubt that web 2.0 technologies and social media tools are useful professional development tools and allow us to find…
In June, I blogged about the issues of online privacy and security and I’m revisiting that a bit in the context of online identities. The places you can find me online are outlined in a post here but the issue of online identity is a bit more complex than just a list of social media…
The video Did you know 4.0 highlights a number of trends in the way we use information that have implications for policy development within the library and information sector. Some of the shifts and trends identified in this video include: a significant (and climbing) increase in the use of mobile devices the increase in digital…
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