Moving on!

Yes, A homage to my favourite composer - there may be other references scattered around.
How to build up a record of professional thoughts?  This is my next task.

 There's been a glut of children's book award listings (either being awarded or lists announced)  Roald Dahl - Costa and the wonderful CILIP Carnegie/Greenaway too.  A busy time checking that there are copies in stock of those that we can use; as well as the little local irritation that I can't justify buying all those tantalising titles on the Carnegie listing as many of them are aimed at children/Young Adults - not our primary target age range.  Oh well, I'll get to read them sometimes.  I am going to prioritise The Hunger games series though, and the Paolini ones - neither of which I have read and about which there is so much discussion.  (Forthcoming film and the latest in the sequence making such an impact - does everyone choose their "emergency reading" like this?)

Now inductions etc have finished and having just undertaken some library skills training from a course where I am the student, not delivering the session, has made me reflect on my own practice.  In essence I think I need to build in "some familiarity time" for the layout and needs of each database.  Whether that is in the tabled session or by some means outside it - (not just handouts, but interactive quizzes and using technology more imaginatively etc) I'll have to investigate.

Now the thing is over - what next?

Strangely after being so resistant to blogging and any other form of communicating on the web (apart from strictly professional, work reasons,) I may just try to keep this running as a form of cpd running evaluation.  My older word document is very unwieldy and this may just keep my interest going.

I'll try to add some more interesting "gadgets" - a few more blogs that I follow (although I see them from my RSS feed, so is this just duplication or a way of declaring my interests to others? - which pre-supposes that anyone else looks at this!) and try to make it a little more dynamic and interesting rather than purely reflective naval gazing.

My next task is to really get the most out of Twitter.  Let's see how it goes ...