Having to look again at my current job description, to alter in, so where I work can recruit a suitable replacement, whilst I am on maternity leave.
Wish list
A qualified librarian, ideally with Chartership
Copyright and information literacy, so we have someone who is knowledgeable in both fields.
Experience in FE and HE education- you never kow when Ofsted are going to turn up.
Useful points to consider from Laura about the job advert.
http://darkarchive.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/writing-a-job-advertisement-that-will-attract-the-candidates-you-want/
Friday, 20 April 2012
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Back to college
Having had a two week break, feeling very freshed. I've managed to work on my Chartership, starting to feel more confident, and happier with the content, to the point where I have started to remove some less needed information. I need to look in to reflective writing, and my mentor has kindly sent me some information to read up on this morning.
Other developments for the week are: read the rest of Art libraries journal, focusing on copyright, having already read two of the article and been very impressed with what i've read, as I am currently working on a digital achive for the college. pulling together all the images of students work, in the first instance it was going to be for academics to have a pool of images they can use for presentations and to demonstrate what previous students have done. However, looking in to the copyright, and consulting with other who have provided a similar service, but gone global. I am hoping that our archive has similar success.
Other developments for the week are: read the rest of Art libraries journal, focusing on copyright, having already read two of the article and been very impressed with what i've read, as I am currently working on a digital achive for the college. pulling together all the images of students work, in the first instance it was going to be for academics to have a pool of images they can use for presentations and to demonstrate what previous students have done. However, looking in to the copyright, and consulting with other who have provided a similar service, but gone global. I am hoping that our archive has similar success.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Digitial archive
Been working, what seems like ages on the digital archive for the college, don't seem to be getting very far. The content is great, we have images of students work from 2007 to present, but I am the only one tagging and adding in details such as course and year information. As it is taking me a morning to do between 6-10 files depending on the size, I might be on the task for some time.
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
My day
Following the diaster of yesterday, I feel today has to be better.
Started day at 8am, ordered a pile of books for GCSE english course, must do a budget transfer later today! I'm terrible at remembering finance.
First job of the day is to re-write my CV, easy peasy, I have a completed and up to date version as a I am doing my chartership, but I am struggling with the section professional profil and creative practice section. Ok, after a cup of tea, I manage to type and drink. Finished that task and sent it to HR.
As I have no teaching today, there is nothing major in my diary, I have a report to read on copyright and I have two reports I need to finish for SMT. Plus I could probably order a few more books and do the connected paperwork for contemporary craft.
Well my plan worked for all of ten minutes, when I relised that WilsonWeb has still not had the problem solved, needed to re-contact IT. Back to Copyright article.
Managed to last 20 minutes this time, before getting distracted- this time it was with tomorrow's display, it's on Brazil, so each member of the department has made a few carnival masks.
Finally managed to finish the document on copyright, it seems to have answered a few more questions I had on digital copyright, but created a few more.
Before lunch my plan is to work out the classmarks for the books that have arrived/ been donated to the college library, so one of the assistants can catalogue them. Will work on the SMT reports this afternoon. Hopefully.
It's 1.45pm and I have completed 2nd draft of the report for SMT, not sure how many drafts I need to create, so I think I am almost there. Very happy, once I have this report done about art and design libraries, I have managed to create a little network of art and design librarians, done some work on criteria 4 for my chartership and managed to (finger crossed) impress SMT.
Overall today has been pretty successful, managing to almost complete the report is a very big task, and doen two finance tasks, however I have broken my email account and can no longer communicate to the outside world.
the next three hours, will be spent- cataloguing books, not work on the report and giving my brain time to heal itself
Started day at 8am, ordered a pile of books for GCSE english course, must do a budget transfer later today! I'm terrible at remembering finance.
First job of the day is to re-write my CV, easy peasy, I have a completed and up to date version as a I am doing my chartership, but I am struggling with the section professional profil and creative practice section. Ok, after a cup of tea, I manage to type and drink. Finished that task and sent it to HR.
As I have no teaching today, there is nothing major in my diary, I have a report to read on copyright and I have two reports I need to finish for SMT. Plus I could probably order a few more books and do the connected paperwork for contemporary craft.
Well my plan worked for all of ten minutes, when I relised that WilsonWeb has still not had the problem solved, needed to re-contact IT. Back to Copyright article.
Managed to last 20 minutes this time, before getting distracted- this time it was with tomorrow's display, it's on Brazil, so each member of the department has made a few carnival masks.
Finally managed to finish the document on copyright, it seems to have answered a few more questions I had on digital copyright, but created a few more.
Before lunch my plan is to work out the classmarks for the books that have arrived/ been donated to the college library, so one of the assistants can catalogue them. Will work on the SMT reports this afternoon. Hopefully.
It's 1.45pm and I have completed 2nd draft of the report for SMT, not sure how many drafts I need to create, so I think I am almost there. Very happy, once I have this report done about art and design libraries, I have managed to create a little network of art and design librarians, done some work on criteria 4 for my chartership and managed to (finger crossed) impress SMT.
Overall today has been pretty successful, managing to almost complete the report is a very big task, and doen two finance tasks, however I have broken my email account and can no longer communicate to the outside world.
the next three hours, will be spent- cataloguing books, not work on the report and giving my brain time to heal itself
Monday, 9 January 2012
Blog day
Some of my collegues arranged a blog day, sadly I wasn't unable to attend but manager to get hold of the power points afterwards. Read lots of interesting information. Some ofthe students at the college are using blogs as PDP, which is a very interesting idea.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
imagine program
Having just watched Imagine- books the last chapter, I felt I should write something today.
On one hand, I love e books, any tool which appeals to people to improve literacy skills of the population is worth embracing. However as I am the librarian at an art college I'm not sure how this would work here- on a practical level. Some books because of the scale of the images and the detail would loose so much being made in to a small screen.
I can see the advantage of fiction going to Ebooks, but for a generation , of which I am still part of, I love to hold a book.
So, I'm on the fence, I love books and Ebooks.
On one hand, I love e books, any tool which appeals to people to improve literacy skills of the population is worth embracing. However as I am the librarian at an art college I'm not sure how this would work here- on a practical level. Some books because of the scale of the images and the detail would loose so much being made in to a small screen.
I can see the advantage of fiction going to Ebooks, but for a generation , of which I am still part of, I love to hold a book.
So, I'm on the fence, I love books and Ebooks.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
thing 13 and thing 14
Must get back in the habit of writing here.
Thing 13- I've started using drop box, due to a project I've been working on for a while, it's been pretty useful to shuffle documents to and from each other.
As for Wiki's (apart from Wikipedia) I came across them a few years ago, due to the MIS department in college, they seem to have an addition for them- plus they seem to be able to make the useful and workable.
Moving on to thing 14-
Referencing is one thing I am quiet keen on, mainly as I've struggled with it for years, had to teach students it and created a document to help students.
I'm always in two minds about referencing software- part of me (the slightly mean bit of me) things, I suffered, so should they. But on the other hand, I think life is too short to get hung up on , and ('s.
Having looked in toZotero I was totally amazed, I think this might be a possible thing to adopt for the college. Spent a fair amount of time watching the promotional video.
Thing 13- I've started using drop box, due to a project I've been working on for a while, it's been pretty useful to shuffle documents to and from each other.
As for Wiki's (apart from Wikipedia) I came across them a few years ago, due to the MIS department in college, they seem to have an addition for them- plus they seem to be able to make the useful and workable.
Moving on to thing 14-
Referencing is one thing I am quiet keen on, mainly as I've struggled with it for years, had to teach students it and created a document to help students.
I'm always in two minds about referencing software- part of me (the slightly mean bit of me) things, I suffered, so should they. But on the other hand, I think life is too short to get hung up on , and ('s.
Having looked in toZotero I was totally amazed, I think this might be a possible thing to adopt for the college. Spent a fair amount of time watching the promotional video.
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