Attending Conferences

Thing 12.... Conferences are not things I attend being a library assistant...So I will do task 2..

Having looked up the links ye provided which I found very interesting and surprised of the amount that could of applied to myself. My perception of  conferences were they were for the heads of depts. or serious academics... but on looking at the provided links I found some that I would find interesting and even maybe be applicable to me.

There is one on the 12th of Novemeber at 11am in The John Rylands Library University of Manchester. Its title is New Professional Day.. Its about rare books and special collection group, which i find interesting.

I found this presentation through CILIP, its found under the sub heading for academic libraries.

If it was applicable to me and our Librarian found this of need or of interest to me there would be funding to attend these conferences and iam sure they would schedule me in for this if it was needed or appropiate to me. However it is not something that we have being known to do, so this is my conference of interest.

I feel this would be of interest and would give a knowledge of special collections and rare books.

My fears would be that I would not have enough knowledge and would be out of my depth...... Also taking the advice from(Caroline Rowan)  to bring a tablet to take notes which I could reference at a later time if a link or notes were not provided.

Regards

Jackie

reflective practice

Thing 11

Reflective Practice

I am enjoying the course, so writing this today even though Thing 16 is just out does not look like I have time managed well. However, I feel I am doing ok on it and have not falling too far behind. 

I created a bit of a study plan for this(kids are in bed) . Its working so far. Also if i have a quiet time its great that it can be done via my phone or tablet eg.  lunch breaks.

I think though if you are very behind you get to miss out on eg Hangouts/ Twitter chat as you have not got that far so you wont include yourself in these things which are the only way of getting to know how they operate. So I would suggest that people stay somewhat up to date with the course.

Hope this helps others.

Moving on to Thing 12 hopefully this evening!!!

Take care

Jackie

LIVE STREAMING

Live Streaming.....

I enjoyed exploring live Streaming.. Its something that I would not need to use in my daily work routine but I can see the benefits of it. I think its a great idea for streaming different platforms within libraries. I had a look at periscope its a great idea and one I feel would work really well. I viewed TEDx which is another great streaming facility. I watched several streams which I found some interesting and also gave a better idea how all this works. There are a few I pinned for later viewing.. Overall very interesting and well worth creating a live stream with events etc within libraries.

Jackie