Playing catch up here for Thing5 and cheating by posting a previously made video!
Gwenius
Friday, October 13, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Thing 3 of Rudaí23: 23 Things for Information Skills
There are two types of people in the world, those that like
pubs decorated with job lots of de-accessioned library books and those who are
appalled by the idea. I happen to be a type 1, as I see this fashion as both a perfectly good way to upcycle unwanted titles and an
excellent insulator (as I suspect was the purpose in the image posted below). However, when an interior designer
redecorates a pub with wall-to-wall shelves of books and it is then renamed The
Library, I do find it distressing to take an interesting-looking book out of an immaculately neat
line of books to find that it has been cut in half to fit!
Thing 3 is about using imagery, and the task is to post an
image to one’s blog.
Pixabay has been my go to image bank over the last year or so when
designing event invitations and web postings.
Pixabay is a source of free images with no attribution required and
contains photos, illustrations and vector graphics.
So I’m posting this pic because it caught my eye and because
it reminds the viewer that in this born-digital age, printed books still possess
aesthetic qualities discrete from the information they contain.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
My first blog post
Well actually it isn’t! In a previous life I participated in
communal blogging with other research librarians on the Read Around Research blog when I was a Research Support Librarian
at NUI Galway and I used Twitter and a Facebook page to promote
and effectively build community and public support for a trial marine passenger
service between Galway and Clare.
The blogs that I actively read nowadays are the ThesisWhisperer and the LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences. I read these because the posts are written in an engaging style, often by guest writers so the content doesn’t get samey and I like reading. I have only just discovered Libfocus but expect I will enjoy this too.
The blogs that I actively read nowadays are the ThesisWhisperer and the LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences. I read these because the posts are written in an engaging style, often by guest writers so the content doesn’t get samey and I like reading. I have only just discovered Libfocus but expect I will enjoy this too.
About me
For the next few months I am acting Librarian at Shannon
College of Hotel Management (NUI Galway) based at Shannon Airport, Co. Clare. Before this I was in a variety of roles in academic
libraries and in a couple of hospital libraries too though I’ve had a break for
the past 5 ½ years due to being made redundant, so I am very pleased to be back
doing what I love to do and it is truly a joy again to go to work every day.
I have set up this blog because I have decided to do R23: 23 Things for Information Skills. I missed it the first time and thought it
would be an ideal way to brush up my digital skills seeing as I have been out
of things for so long.
Reasons to blog include:
·
to
communicate within the profession and share ideas and knowledge best practice
with other librarians and the library profession in general
·
to
communicate outside the profession and advocate for and promote the profession
·
to
share knowledge
·
to
promote and build the visibility of the blogger and/or collections and services
·
To generally network, interact, and invite
feedback
(Dalton et al., 2016)
However,
I am not sure I will be blogging for any of the above reasons! I don’t have a lot to new knowledge to contribute to the
profession yet, and locally we have a good communication channel through our College app so I use this to promote library services. Instead, expect this blog to be filled with
random trains of thought and lots of free writing (just like this). You see, aside from the wonderful day job, I
am now studying part-time so all my disposable free time is spent reading and thinking
about project management. My hope is
that I will be able to fuse information skills and project management in the
months to come but for now I am content to absorb all the new stuff I’m
learning and spend my writing energy on assignments.
Dalton, M., Kouker,
A. & O’Connor, M. (2016) Many Voices: Building a Biblioblogosphere in Ireland.
New
Review of Academic Librarianship, 22(2-3), 148-159
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