International and Health Libraries So yesterday I went to the AGM of the West Country Branch of CILIP’s Career Development Group at which I had been invited to talk about my experience of carrying out research in Malawi at a rural primary school library The first presentation was delivered by Jane Villa from North Bristol [...]
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16 Mar
last nights Newsnight
So, my initial thoughts on last nights Newsnight ”Do libraries have a Future” debate. Firstly where was CILIP and where were the librarians? It was Maragret Hodge and Alex Gibbons a “library campaigner” who took part in the discussion. Whilst it is great there are “library campaigners”, it seems bizarre to me that there was no sign of anyone [...]
15 Mar
My research trip to Malawi – The Warm Heart of Africa
Here is a wee video I made of my research trip to Malawi. Make sure you have the sound turned up…there is some amazing singing on it that I recorded at the schools end-of-term celebrations. For my Library and Information Management MSc dissertation, I went to a primary school in rural Malawi, to which a British NGO [...]
12 Mar
How does CILIP support newly Qualified professionals who work in institutions that have no professional development budget?
What do you do? You are a recently qualified librarian who is about to embark on the road to chartership and who is also on the look out for a senior professional post. The academic library you work in, as an assistant librarian, has had no budget for new resources for almost 2 years and journal subscriptions have been cut [...]
