Renaissance Utterances

February was a prolific work blogging month where I enjoyed investigating the art (and science) of collaboration. As Vable's Topic S...

Where were you for the start of 2019? This was originally published on the current awareness based  Vable blog in January but I wanted ...

May your training room be full! In this article I want to highlight the vital role that UK legal information professionals play annually...

Looking for me? Independence can be an obstacle to effective mentoring. From a personal point of view I'm happy to go away and look ...

I've now completed my first full week of truly remote working so am reasonably well equipped to comment on and consolidate the notes tak...

The notes that follow arise out of the BIALL Conference 2017 and given the theme of the conference was 'Together or Apart? Effective wa...

This is the fourth and final debate in this Thomson Reuters series. Having attended two of the others, they have offered an entertaining ...

LexisNexis is the in the business of tracking and working with the legal market because it recognises the huge potential for profit. Alth...

Sometimes it is only with hindsight that you realise you’re going about things the right way, professionally speaking. Over the past year ...

Last night saw the inaugural debate of the new Legal Debate Series organised by Thomson Reuters. It was a timely discussion around the hi...

Old and New Clare Style Collyer Bristow is home to a long-standing art gallery which presents the best and most interesting contemporary...

I changed my CILIP Special Interest Group membership recently and, although it is too early in the year to tell, it’s possibly cemented th...

By the 'c' side An article and event came together in happy synchronicity this week. The resultant combination made me consider ...

Reflections... CPD is an essential part of being a chartered professional of any type. So I’m pleased to announce I’ve just submitted m...

Remember these? This is the fourth in this series of Twenty Years in Law Librarianship. Given it has been generated by general high leve...

The ICLR was established in 1865 to “prepare and publish, in a convenient form, at a moderate price, and under gratuitous professional c...

Early librarian communication This is the second in my series of 'Twenty Years as a Law Librarian' blogposts. Although the first...

Not a computer pic It’s not just the internet that has been around for ages. Turns out I have too. I have been mining my LA/CILIP Profe...

Two of the best things about being in law librarianship for decades are 1. seeing the changes in colours of institutions’ rule books; 2. the...

Continuing professional development has never been more important. Content remains the most serious aspect of training but in reality, provi...