Renaissance Utterances

Library and information industry conferences, seminars, events offer attendees valuable opportunities for networking and continuing pro...

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 ...

Me looking professional This is the full text of the talk I gave at the MmIT 2015 Conference 'With Power Comes Great Responsibility...

No kittens on the deep web Inevitably the recent hacking of the Ashley Madison website has caused a vast avalanche of commentary, coveri...

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...

Data protection is normally presented from a risk/compliance point of view and, indeed, it is an essential part of a firm's responsib...

Confusion reigns in the land of CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. What is the difference between people...

Ostracism , (n), exclusion from a society or group One of the legal journals I was scanning yesterday brought to my attention a report lo...

Arousing great desire Passion can be defined in a number of ways. It is derived from late Latin 'pati' meaning to 'suffer...

Last July I went on a visit to the RCS Library and so when an opportunity came up to visit another high profile medical library, I was qu...