Renaissance Utterances

In the library and information world, who could have predicted a few months ago that organisations would be pushed to change so rapidly;...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

A guide for the grumpy! Sometimes it's good to go back to basics and take a fresh look at a topic. In the past I've worked with ...

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

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...

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

This is the third in this series of twenty years in law librarianship. I already have covered technology and communications , both of whi...

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...

New pic due soon, thank goodness Lawyers and various support services staff here have embraced new challenges recently; we have been mod...

How many men have been injured opening bra straps? How many people currently have a cold at the moment? These aren't questions that ca...

’ Do you remember when you started your first post-university professional job? When you were eager to sign up to your professional organi...