We here at Enquiring Minds Want to Know would like to wish everyone reading this a happy and wonderful and positive and fulfilling and engaging and terrific new year and year to come.
May it be everything you want it to be, and everything you don’t know you wanted yet :)
London Eye - New Year 2006Originally uploaded by diamond geezer
Tags: randomFirstly, a thankyouthankyouthankyou to whoever nominated us as one of their favourite library blogs in Meredith Farkas’ favourite blogs survey! We are thrilled and delighted to have been mentioned – there may even have been some surreptitious squealing :)
Secondly, apologies are in order for our paltry posting regime of late – I have no decent excuse, begging lack of time and an overabundance of trainees, but happily Davina has returned from her jaunt to the Australian Law Librarians Conference in Sydney, and will soon be posting tales of her adventures there and of the interesting things she saw and heard from the librarians back home.
Thirdly, and most importantly, Jessamyn alerted us to the fact that it’s Banned Book Week this week! So go out and read yourselves a book that someone, somewhere has considered to dangerous to read. Davina will be reading And Tango Makes Three (a heartwarming tale of gay penguin love) and I’ll be rereading my favourite bits of Ulysses, with which I was tortured at university, but have since grown to love. Go, read, enjoy, challenge :)
Tags: conference, links, randomAs of today, I am officially a graduate of the Masters of Information Management degree at Queensland University of Technology.
It feels a little anti-climactic though as the ceremony was in Brisbane, and seeing I’m here in London I couldn’t attend. And I’d even forgotten it was happening until one of my coworkers reminded me! I handed the last piece of assessment in in July, so I’ve felt finished for a couple of months now.
The last semester of study was one of the best I’ve done. It was that semester that got me inspired about my choice of career and made me want to get involved. It was part of the impetus for starting this blog and for getting more involved in the professional associations that exist in London. Even though I was studying externally I still felt like I was a part of something bigger and that I needed to give back to that.
The first steps of my career have been taken and I think they’re heading in the right direction.
Tags: professional development, randomI opened up this weeks Legal Week yesterday afternoon, and upon flicking through I found an article titled ‘Information Overload’. Upon reading it, I couldn’t believe that there was no mention anywhere about the library or information centre!
The first paragraph:
Information overload is a problem for all of us: too many emails, too much data, too many magazine articles to read. Sorting the wheat from the chaff is a major challenge. And if lawyers are to focus on the right information, a lot of the sorting has to be done for them. How can firms approach this challenge?
could easily be answered by getting your library/information department involved. That’s what we’re here to do!
I wouldn’t want the article to be all about the library, but a small mention would be nice.
Tags: randomI meant to post the three-quarters written post that’s been sitting in my drafts folder for about the last week before I left for BIALL, but I seem to have run out of time (time is something that I seem to be in seriously short supply of at the moment). I’m off to the conference in Sheffield this afternoon, and will be sans interwebs whilst I’m away, unless I should stumble upon a web cafe of some kind. (note to self: must get laptop /nods). I’ll be twittering though, so keep an eye on that if you’re interested.
And, in light of having a proper post of any real content, I give you a bunny. Cause I don’t know about you, but my morning could totally do with some bunny schnorgling action.
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