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Katie the Librarian: July 2015
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Sunday, 26 July 2015. At the beginning of July I spent a couple of days in Liverpool at CILIP Conference 2015. Having been lucky enough to win a bursary from the ARLG London and South East region. I was keen to attend the conference, having worked in the area of Special Collections for well over ten years, so my conference attendance had tended to be restricted to those events that were closely connected to my specialist area. Concert Hall, where the keynotes took place. So, what next? 1879-1880: Robert ...
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Katie the Librarian: January 2015
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Thursday, 29 January 2015. HLF conference 2014: Beyond the bid. The 2014 Historic Libraries Forum conference took fundraising, project management and related issues as its theme. I was one of the co-organisers, and also hosted it at Brunel University Library. These topics had been suggested by attendees at previous conferences and workshops. Slides from most of the speakers are available on the HLF website. Took time away from working on other projects - with a small staff someone still has to do the work.
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Katie the Librarian: September 2013
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Sunday, 29 September 2013. I spent a morning last week at a digitisation workshop hosted by the Wellcome Trust, as part of their Wellcome Digital. Work It was in the rather smart new building on Euston Road. And consisted of three presentations by Christy Henshaw. Christy's presentation is also available online. Opens a pdf], and Matthew's. Followed by a trip upstairs to see the digitisation studios and equipment. They discussed the software used: SDB. And metadata: administrative metadata (created autom...
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Katie the Librarian: Out of the box: enabling access to archives
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Monday, 11 May 2015. Out of the box: enabling access to archives. The day after the charismatic connecting course. I went on a very different day. This was held at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives. This was a free day organised by THLHLA as part of the ". Out of the box. Project, with support from The National Archives and a local disability arts organisation, Film. It started with seven 10 minute case studies (with a break halfway through! Out of the box. Royal Air Force Museum. A free (...
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Katie the Librarian: Training: Charismatic connecting
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Thursday, 7 May 2015. I'd spotted that our Staff Development department at work was running a day's training on networking skills, which I thought looked interesting and useful. The day was led by Russell Wardrop. From Kissing with Confidence. An organisation that offers training in public speaking, networking, coaching, influencing and negotiating. We started off by talking about self-confidence. Then we worked our way through the seven principles. This covered self-regard and resilience, optimism, happ...
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Katie the Librarian: September 2014
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Wednesday, 24 September 2014. Visit: Special Collections at Royal Holloway. At the beginning of September I spent an afternoon on a visit organised by ALISS. To Special Collections and Archives at Royal Holloway. Founders Building at Royal Holloway. As we discovered during our visit, the Archivist, Annabel, explained that things are very different now, with Special Collections and Archives playing a role in teaching various groups of students, as well as featuring in students' research. On the college we...
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Katie the Librarian: CILIP Conference 2015
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Sunday, 26 July 2015. At the beginning of July I spent a couple of days in Liverpool at CILIP Conference 2015. Having been lucky enough to win a bursary from the ARLG London and South East region. I was keen to attend the conference, having worked in the area of Special Collections for well over ten years, so my conference attendance had tended to be restricted to those events that were closely connected to my specialist area. Concert Hall, where the keynotes took place. So, what next? 1879-1880: Robert ...
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Katie the Librarian: October 2013
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Sunday, 6 October 2013. Archives Hub contributors' workshop. The same week as the digitisation workshop. At the Wellcome, I was also able to go on a contributors' workshop organised by Archives Hub. And held at Tate Britain. I found the day really useful. We covered everything from an introduction to archival cataloguing using the Hub to future developments. Although I've been using the Hub at work for cataloguing our collections (you'll find them listed here. Tips I picked up included:. For the first ti...
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Katie the Librarian: Training: Train the Trainers
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Monday, 20 April 2015. Training: Train the Trainers. Using Special Collections in your dissertation. 65279;. Me, during a workshop for a community group visiting Special Collections for the first time. So, in an hour's session, you should make sure you change activity 3 or 4 times per session to keep their attention. We moved on to talk about the key components of the learning and teaching process:. Identification of training needs - Plan and design course - Deliver course - Evaluation of course. Basic...
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