Catching up: CPD23 Things 1 and 2
Not off to the greatest of starts, I’m nearly three weeks behind on CPD23 already. Luckily I already have a blog, so I only have part of Thing 1 to do, unfortunately it’s just what I hate doing which is writing about myself, but as one of the reasons I’m doing this is to improve my reflective thinking and writing here goes.
I’m an Information Services Librarian working for a public library service in the South West. I’ve being doing this job for far too long, but I seem to have come to a halt career wise. (Confession time, I’m not a qualified librarian which limits my options a bit). I have signed up to do Chartership via the extraordinary route and I’m trying to pull my portfolio together at the moment.
I’ve had this blog for a while but I don’t update it very often. I did think about starting a new one just for CPD23, but I’d rather have everything in one place.
As I’m behind I’m going to briefly cover Thing 2 as well. I read (well scan) a lot of blogs. I have far too many in my Reader and sometimes find it hard to keep up. I’m a frequent user of the mark all as read button.
I’ll often read something at work and want to comment, then have either forgotten what I was going to say by the time I get home or the moment has passed. I’m not helped by the filter at work which blocks all Blogger blogs.
The Delicious list of CPD23 participants is slightly overwhelming, but thanks to some great tagging is very easy to navigate. I started with the public library blogs as it’s what I know, but this is also a great opportunity to find out more about working in different library settings.
I’ve added a few to my Reader and promise I’ll start trying to comment more.
