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Technology… 19 Aug 2012 | 11:02 pm
I have not posted for quite a while, I have just not been inspired to. My work-life has been trundling along, I am not particularly challenged or enthused by it and I know it is time to move on should...
End of year one 24 Nov 2011 | 03:31 am
Earlier this month I passed the one year mark for the time spent in my current post as a cataloguer at the University of Strathclyde. I have come to grips with the various aspects of the job which ha...
Information Visualisation – better than words… 26 May 2011 | 08:50 am
I was classifying a book the other day on information visualisation and it was so interesting I found it was distracting me from my primary task. The book was Information is Beautiful by David McCandl...
Time Flies (when youre having fun) 3 May 2011 | 09:11 pm
I have been working in the library at the University of Strathclyde for six months now, which I find hard to believe – time does fly… I am still based in the cataloguing and metadata section with shi...
Month five… 29 Mar 2011 | 08:47 pm
I have been working in the cataloguing and metadata section at the Andersonian library at the University of Strathclyde for nearly five months now. It was a steep learning curve at first, but now mos...
Month One Day Thirty 30 Nov 2010 | 11:00 pm
Today will be the last day of my first month working in the library at the University of Strathclyde. It has been interesting and there has been a lot to learn, the finer points of MARC 21 and classi...
Working in a Library 28 Oct 2010 | 11:16 pm
On November 1st I will be starting my first work in a Library – and academic library at the University of Strathclyde. Although my work over the last year and a half, doing applied research in IT rela...
The great quango massacre 15 Oct 2010 | 12:47 am
Out of curiosity I read through the list of public bodies being reformed – abolished, merged etc. that is available from direct.gov.uk and realised there is quite a diversity of bodies in the list. I ...
Times of Change 16 Sep 2010 | 02:56 am
A lot of people I have talked to at different universities are saying they are currently being restructured. This is true of where I am currently working and I suspect is very prevalent across higher ...
