Welcome to my blog!
I have set up this blog so I can participate in 23 Things for Professional Development - an online, self directed learning programme for library staff. Each week I will be investigating a new "thing" and using the blog to share and reflect on what I have learned.
First, a little about me! I work as an Information Skills Training Librarian for Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust & am based in the Warner Library at Broomfield Hospital. I've been here just over 10 years. I work part time (and term-time only) as I have 3 school age children. Life is sometimes a bit of a juggling act!
I belong to a group called EEHIST (East of England Health Information Skills Trainers) and we are looking at running a 23 things for NHS Staff in our patch. Whether we can, what with NHS restrictions on accessing some websites, (and the huge access differences between Trusts) remains to be seen, but as well as helping my own CPD, this will be a useful test to see what I can and can't access from the NHS. I shall also be dipping into the CAM23 programme running at the same time as this, as are some of my colleagues.
I've not used blogger before, but have a wordpress blog for the Warner Library which tends to be more notifications and updates rather than personal stuff. It will be quite interesting to be using them both at the same time.
I do use some social media already (love Twitter!) but could do a lot more so looking forward to learning about the things and having a go - particularly screencasts and Prezi (not tried that at all yet).
So Thing 1 - create a blog - done! I'm going to have a play around now and see what else I can do with it.
Hi Deborah,
ReplyDeleteThis looks really interesting! We have a trainers group here in the NW (I'm the library manager for NHS Bolton), but i've not heard anything about 23 Things at all really. If you do manage to get it off the ground - I would be greatful for any feedback. Good luck with CPD23!
Hi Deborah,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment on my blog, and so I am returning the compliment. I did my graduate trainee year at the University of Essex at Colchester, and so it is good to make contact with an Essex health librarian.
Stephen Ayre
Hi Deborah
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting on my blog as well. I used to work for the NHS in a psychotherapy library many years ago when we thought it was exciting to have a PC with 2 floppy disk drives. (No, we did, really!). Will be keeping up with your blog to see how it all goes. Sally.