New Book Display

One of my goals on my Personal Development Plan was to work on ways on promoting our library and it's resources. By discussing this with other members of the library team we decided to try a Waterstone's style display table featuring a collection of our new books. Well, it is a fabulous success! Books and DVDs that had been overlooked and ignored before flew off the table! It has been decided that it will remain a permanent feature of the library. We even thought that future displays could feature themes - burns books, Nursing, exam revision books, etc.

Meeting with mentor

I met with my mentor Gil Young on Thursday 9th September at 9am to discuss improvements which need to be made to my Chartership portfolios. We looked over where the portfolio was lacking in certain evidence, namely the Library's policy and how it regards to the Trust's. We have another scheduled meetong for the 26th of September at 10:00.

Six Book Challenge

We decided to take part in the Six Book Challenge which is a nation wide initiative to get emergent readers as well as others who read well but have just got out of the habit, to read more. As a result we have broadened our choices of reading material to include Quick Reads and other types of fiction as well as "Health and Well Being" books that will help improve people's lives. These are books about exercise, healthy living, beating stress and eating well.

Progressing nicely

I have just had a meeting with Gil, and I really feel buoyed up by it. She gave me some excellent advice on how to proceed with my personal reflective statement and was so encouraging about the evidence I had collected that she has really spurred me on. She even thinks I should be ready to submit by April/May next year. Our next meeting will be in December where I will (hopefully) have a rough example of my portfolio. It seems incredible that it's all coming together.

Reflective wrting

One of the most challenging tasks of the Chartership process is the Relective writing essay. 1000 words on our various job roles, how we have improved in these areas, and why. The urge is to simply write out a list of taks we do, and how we do them, but this exercise needs to be more introsoective. We need to look at the tasks noted down in our PPDP plan, what training and devleopment we think we need in these areas, why, what benefits could come about this additional training and when it should take place. It's tricky and from what I can gather from the other Chartershuip candidates, the one taks everyone dreads the most!

Websites

One of the goals on my PDPP is to become more actively involved with updating the ERC Library homepage, which requires knowledge in basic html. I sat in with my colleague Stephen while he was making some amendments. Having had some html experience already I bascially understood the gist of what needed to be done. I think it's more a question of just getting some hands-on experience, which I hope to get during our next session.

Wikis, blogs and webpages

As I am interested in learning more about blogs, wikis and webpages, as well as how to use them, I went onto the daddy of them all, Wikipedia, and added my own small contribution by editing an exsiting page about the French film Sans soleil. Very proud.

note - the original author of this article removed my contribution from the wiki page.