Trip to Kingston Uni – part 2

Continued from previous post… recounting my trip to Kingston uni libraries to see a pal and my mentor.  After my time at the Knights Park and Penrhyn Road LRC’s I then took the free uni bus up to the Kingston Hill campus where I was to visit the Nightingale Centre where Anna works.

Anna met me at the bus stop and we headed to the LRC cafe in the Nightingale Centre for a bit to eat.  I enjoyed a delicious sticky bit of home made brownie from there and had my packed lunch.  Anna and I participated in the same series of CPD25 Chartership workshops in 2007-08, so I was hoping to pick her brains a bit about how she did her portfolio, and it was also really nice just to catch up and see her again.  A couple summers ago she came to Brighton Uni when the IS staff at Kingston came to visit our IS department.

We left my bag in her office are and begun a tour of the library.  I was fascinated by the automatic book sorter machine that sorts books out however you programme it, so students deposit their books using the self-returns place and they all get cleverly sorted!

We then took a walk all arounf the LRC, the computer areas were pretty big so I asked about how noisy they get, answer is they do get noisy when it’s busy.

I liked the nice quiet study areas on one of the upper floors, I think this was where music students come as there were lots of CDs and records available to use, plus super snazzy Macs with piano type keyboards for compsing and recording music.   There was also a nice electric keyboard that students can use – have to get the power pack and headphones from the helpdesk.  Nearby was one of the best things I saw – the electronic rolling stacks!! I’d never seen/used these before, you just press the direcitonal button and the shelves neatly roll along… need to remember to check no-one’s down the aisle before you start pressing the buttons! It wouldn’t crush anyone though if there was due to sensors obviously…. I did enjoy playing with that, but like all automatic things, may be a bit tricky if it breaks or a part goes kaput.

One other thing I really liked was that all the study skills books  were kept together seperate from the rest of the stock.  I thought that was a good idea as currently that kind of stock is shelved in a couple of places at our library and it may be more convenient to have it all together near to our

enquiry desk perhaps… I’ll have a think and maybe see what others think about that! 

Kingston have self issue points and the Nightingale Centre is open 24 hours so these are essential.  They recently adopted a new method of processing reserved items so that students can still collect them even ‘after hours’, as previously staff would have to fetch reserved items from out the back.  Now, the books are made available to collect by the people who reserved them, but they are semi-disguised so that they’re not swiped off the sheld by others! This seemed a very good idea, they’ve only just started it so will be interesting if it works OK.

After seeing the whole LRC we sat down for a bit and talked Chartership, I felt greatly encouraged and enjoyed feeling more inspired to crack on with it as I’ve been neglecting it somewhat over the last year or so.

It was a very useful day, and I really enjoyed seeing around another Uni’s Information Services facilities, especially as Kingston is quite similar to us in that it’s a ‘new’ university, has multiple sites and a converged IT and Library service.  So thank you very much to Rachel and Anna for showing me round, I really appreciated it and got a lot out of it.

Librarian Sarah

A day in the life of a librarian – Friday!

Friday is finally here! It’s felt like a really full on busy week, so I’m glad it is Friday, however I’ll be working again tomorrow afternoon, but won’t be blogging it.

In my usual style I arrived just after 9 this morning, and knew I didn’t have any desk sessions today which was good.  My mind’s gone a bit blank as I try and recall what I did first thing when I came in… In the morning I did some preparations for the afternoon: Librarian Emma and I were speaking for half an hour in the afternoon during the ‘Professional Day’ for the MA Information Studies students here at Brighton Uni.  We were asked by the course leader to share the sorts of things we had been doing since we graduated from the course here.  We were asked to show our video we made as part of our application to write a paper for the NewProfessionals Conference last summer.  Librarian Emma may kill me but here’s our video anyway..

now we look back its a bit cheesy but the conference people liked it! So we showed this (just a few seconds of it!) and talked about our experience of presenting at it – only Emma had first hand experience presenting as we recorded my part as I was double booked that day! We spent the session talking about our involvement in CILIP, and the significance of networking in getting contacts, meeting people from other sectors and the potential that gives for getting involved in other activities and events.  I hope we came across OK and spoke clearly and slowy enough, I think we both can speak a bit quick!  Emma and I sometimes feel like a bit of adouble act but we emphasised that we do do some things seperately! We just share an interest in siminlar things and get on well, hence our partnerships with this blog and other things we’re involved in at work and in CILIP.

Our session followed our friend Abi who talked about her positions in public libraries since graduating from the course at Brighton.  She also emphasised the importance of networking, and trying to get to conferences and other events – especially whilst a student as there are lots of free places for students to apply for throughout the year.

Emma and I then had a meeting to finalise content for an ebulletin we are preparing to send out to CILIP members in the south east.  Then we discussed some events planned for IS for You Week as we need to finalise details for the printed programme.  I think we were both pretty tired by the time we were done with that…. I picked up the last few posters from reprographics then went and bought a packet of Munchies.

All in all a busy week and I am quite glad it’s the weekend now.  It’s been quite time consuming to record it all here but I’m glad I did manage to do it and maybe I’ll look back at this week one day and it will be an interesting comparison to whatever I’m doing then.  I still need to write up Kingston Part 2! Think I’ll do that tomorrow!

Tired Librarian Sarah

Day in the life of a Librarian – it’s Thursday!

Thursday is my late night, so I had a very nice morning in Hove, drinking coffee and writing a few notes on my Chartership whilst reading “Building your Portfolio: the CILIP Guide” .  Then we read in the paper that part of the West Pier in Brighton was being dismantled this morning so we went down to the seafront to take a look.  They’d removed the first part of the sunken bashed up old pier because there was unusually low tides which meant there was good access.  So we just saw a big pile of bits of pier on the beach and some wokrmen in diggers.

Back home and had a special treat – battered sausage and chips for lunch, mm hadn’t had that in ages.  Anyway, onto librarian related activities… headed to work for 2, and the phone rang as soon as I sat down.  It was the the Systems Librarian who then popped up and we had a chat about an issue to do with the catalogue and how information is displayed and whether it is clear enough for users of our external colleges and other non-Uni sites.  I still need to consider it and let her know any suggestions/opinions I may have.

It was time then to go to Reprographics and pick up the A3 posters that they did for us to promote the drop in sessions.  They look pretty good and I stuck a few up, and left some for colleagues to take and put up around the Schools so students hopefully see then on their way to lectures.  Following an email from a colleague I was jolted with the realisation I was meant to have ordered the promo pencils for the Information Services promotional week and I HADN’T DONE IT YET!!!! I meant to do it earlier in the week so I very rapidly dug out the email from the rep at the company and requested a repeat order asap, they were very efficient and replied straight away with the quote and I got that signed and sent off. Phew.  They’ll arrive in time too for the week beginning 22nd. Double phew.

By the time I’d finished with that it was dinner time, so I enjoyed my pasta and a few biccys from the tin in the staff room and headed to the enquiry desk for the evening session.  Continued to have a very productive sessions and got lots done, including sending my mentor meeting log to my mentor (bit of a toungetwister that is) and that was a miracle as the deadline was actually Friday! Wednesday night was the last night of 24 hour opening so I stuck a few posters up to remind the students that tonight we close at 2am instead of staying open all night… no one complained this time fortunately.  Last Summer when I worked at the end of the 24 hour opening some students got really annoyed we closed at 2 because they wanted to stay in the library ALL night, because that’s what they always do the night before an exam. Hmm, doesn’t seem a great idea to me.  They demanded the manager’s phone number and that we stay open all night.  wasn’t going to happen.  I pointed out that the posters had said exactly when it ended and had been up for the past 6 weeks, but they still claimed ‘no-one told them’. Oh well… Overall a productive and busy day, was very glad to head home at 9.  As we cycled home a three wheeler looked like it had broken down so we stopped and helped the old chap push it into a parking space at the side of the road.  Initially we rode past but then doubled back to see if he was OK as he could have been quite vulnerable,  but he was alright.  Got home and watched ‘Delia through the ages’ on i-player. Chocolate bread and butter pudding…mmmmmmm.

Librarian Sarah

Day in the life of a Librarian: Wednesday

This is turning out to be a mega busy week, so much in my head that I need to remember to do asap!

In the morning I went straight to see Marion our Learning Technology Adviser to find out how to add our drop in sessions to “Student LOCO” which is the onlne booking system that we can use for any student workshops.  So I was shown how to do it, I was supervised doing my first couple and then cracked on with the rest once I got up to my office, and finished off the list whilst on the enquiry desk from 10.45 until 1.  Part of the desk session was taken up with helping to finalise the design of our posters that some colleagues were doing for the sessions and by the afternoon I sent them off to reprographics to be made into nice A3 posters and small flyers.  Phew, another job done.  There were very few enquiries fortunately as I was cracking on with adding the drop in sessions to LOCO.  We wanted to have an online link to LOCO that was more memorable than the real link which is:

www.brighton.ac.uk/is/studentloco/loco.php

Someone suggested we use the website www.icanhaz.com which seemed really random and odd at first, but it meant we could use the stem of their web address which is quite memorable, and add our own blurb after the slash.  We went for www.icanhaz.com/dropinsessions so we’ll see how that goes down!!

At lunchtime I was planning on going to a lunchtime seminar in one of the academic schools but I was really tired after the morning so I went for lunch and a sit down instead.  Fortunately though one of my colleagues in Learning Technologies went along and blogged about it, thanks Katie!

I enjoyed a nice tuna roll and a satsuma, whilst reading my new mag “Women’s Running” which was fab and inspiring.  Librarian Emma is also very inspiring when it comes to running as she’s in training for the Brighton Marathon! Wowzers!!! Go Emma!

In the afternoon it was prep time for a later recording session with the Director of Information Services, Terry Hanson, and me and Emma were going to be asking him a few questions and having a sort of discussion about issues we think students may be interested in hearing about.  We covered the library environment (noise and food issues) and the improvements to the student email service that are currently in development, and a few other things.  We’re hoping it all recorded OK and the techy guys at BURST radio can do something great with it, and our other bits and pieces we’ll be sending their way!

Librarian Emma was at a School Board until 4 ish so she then came to my office and we chatted about the recording we were about to do, and admired the lovely leaflets I’d brought back from Kingston Uni last week.

It felt like a very full day, and Friday is a day of deadlines for which much work still needs to be done.  Including a chartership deadline I imposed on myself, deadline for putting together upcoming events for the next CILIP SE Branch e-bulletin, and getting our recordings sent to BURST radio.  I’m tired now, but it was a productive day.

Day trip to Kingston University: Part 1 Knights Park and Penrhyn Road campuses

On Thursday 28th January I arranged to go to Kingston University to visit my Rachel my Chartership Mentor, who is a Senior Information Adviser on the Knights Park campus.  I thought I’d record here the events of my day out and include a few piccys that I took on my phone.

Rachel sent me very clear directions from the station, one of them was to walk past the tumbling phone boxes…didn’t know what that meant until I saw them. Nice.  I liked them.

So I headed past these and ten minutes later reached Knights Park campus.  I was a bit early but I enjoyed sitting in the lobby area watching the students come and go, and I overheard one student with her tutor receiving feedback on her portfolio which was interesting.  It made want to go to art school! There was also a very nice looking art shop, unfortunately I couldn’t go in, you just ask for what you want and the lady at the counter brings it to you! Bet nothing gets nicked that way. Anyway, back to library stuff.  Rachel came and met me and I then enjoyed a tour of the LRC.  It’s the library for Architecture, Art, Design, Fashion, Film, Photography and Surveying! I was impressed with their DVD collection, loads of great looking films on the shelves.

I think I’d be browsing it every Friday evening to find a good film for the weekend if I worked there! I liked looking at th eposters and signs used and think that their round ‘Silent’ signs were quite effective, so maybe we could consider some shaped signs back at Brighton…. In their group study rooms they had swish flat screen TV’s that students can hook up their laptops to, which was nice and useful for presentation practice.  I liked the carousel of ‘recreational reading’ books and thought that was nice, occasionally we get asked at work if there are any fiction books in the library and sadly we say no… It was interesting to visit another academic library and just see how things are done.  At Kingston all staff work on the main desk which doubles up enquires and issues/renewals etc which I think must help all members of staff to feel part of a big team? I like seeing the types of promotional materials used, and was impressed with the nice leaflets and signs, and also the very pretty leaflet tree as seen here.  We then had a chat about my progress with my portfolio and agreed some deadlines, they will be challenging to meet but I do work better with deadlines so I’m hoping the next couple months will be very fruitful indeed!

After our chat and tour we headed over to another nearby campus – Penrhyn Road where there was another library to check out.  This was quite a biggy, several floors, nice coffee area and even a reading garden! I loved that… I’d like one please. 

I liked the swishy self issue machines, the blue lights were nice… I was told that at the Nightingale Centre where I was heading to next there was a machine that sorts the books automatically after they go into the self return area, now that I was looking forward to seeing (library nerd or what?).  You’ll see a picture of that in my next post!  so I enjoyed my tour, and the encouragement that I was on the right track, and just need to write up lots now.  Oh, and here’s a pic of the nice self issue machines….

So I then got the uni bus over to the Kingston Hill campus to meet Anna who works there (we met on the CPD25 Chartership Sessions back in 2007/08) and she chartered last year.  I’ll write about that in my next post…

Library day in the life, round 4, day 5

Do you know what? I started this blog post on Saturday because I didn’t get chance to do it on Friday, now it’s Tuesday and I can’t remember what else happened on Friday!! How crap is that? Just goes to show that I need to write about stuff as and when otherwise it gets forgotten. Eeeekkk!!

This is a bit late, but Friday was another busy day

So, what did I do?

First thing was a quick meeting with one of my colleagues about a photo competition we’re going to run as part of IS for you week. We’ve finally got our ideas down and we’re on way to publicity etc. So that’s good.

Desk session was pretty uneventful. Most unusual thing for that was the delivery of a new toilet seat and then trying to find which toilet it was for! Anyway that was sorted so back to the desk.

The afternoon involved a quick jaunt to see a lecturer about a DVD recording and a reprint, but not a new edition of a book.

I left work circa 4.30 to get to the London and South East Career Development Group (CDG) committee meeting at UCL. I was proper late for it though, which I was a bit annoyed about, but public transport is out of my control! Anyway, I arrived and there was some discussion to be had about what we needed to report back on to National Council on Monday/Tuesday. We had updates from the different officers in the group about what’s been going on and what’s coming up. The rest of it I’m going to have to catch up on in the minutes. This was followed by a couple of pops and then home.

I refuse to believe this is all I did on Friday! If I remember what else I will add to this post.

Forgetful librarian Emma

Day in the life of a Librarian – Tuesday

OK the day isn’t completely over but thought I’d get cracking whilst my day is fresh in my mind.

I walked in to work again, during which I read as I walked as I’m a bit engrossed in my latest book… Mr I did a bit more tinkering with my bike today so that will make my next ride very pleasant.

I checked emails, noticed the annoying ‘your inbox is full message’, another thing to put on the to-do list, why am I so rubbish at not deleting stuff as I go along?!! I’m working on Saturday now after a swap with Librarian Emma so maybe that can be a weekend job.  At 10 I met up with one of the Resource Assistants (RA) who had volunteered to do some posters for our drop-in sessions that are starting next week.  Ideally we should have got the posters done a bit sooner, but the planning of what we’re actually calling these sessions took a bit longer…but we’re nearly there.  Lorraine has cracked on with this and is working with a couple others to finalise the posters/flyers we’ll use so that’s great.  Tomorrow I plan to upload all the drop-in sessions onto a webpage so that we can direct students online to the full list of sessions we’re running.  I REALLY hope we’ll get more people coming this time round.

I got a call mid-morning from staff at the issue desk to ask whether I’d mind being filmed answering a question about inter-library loans! Turns out staff on a day long workshop at Uni had been sent to take photos, make video/audio recordings in order to get to grips with the equipment they were using…so my colleagues kindly volunteered me to answer their questions in front of the camera “because you like doing things like that don’t you?”.  I do actually.

After some more book ordering and module outline checking I went to the gym, so was a bit tired when it came to my desk session at 1.  Got a few things done though, such as letting my boss know all my self imposed upcoming deadlines for chunks of my Chartership Portfolio!  Had a great day in Kingston last week (blog post to follow) where I met my mentor and felt encouraged about the whole process.  so now I have some deadlines, I’ve got to put in lots of work to get it done.  No tricky enquiries today, but lots of booking of study rooms for students.

After the desk session a colleague from the IT Helpdesk came over and we recorded our piece for the student radio for IS for You Week (our departmental promotional week at the end of Feb).  This went really well, we did the whole thing in one take, no mistakes, so was pleased with that.  I was very grateful to Jane for sparing the time, and being willing to do it all over again if necessary if I have a techno disater and manage to lose the recording.  That won’t happen.  I hope.

So, meeting Mr I now at B&Q to buy some light bulbs.  Fun stuff.

I’m a week late, but better late than never!

Library day in the life….. blogging what I get up to this week.  I know everyone else was doing this last week, but due to various reasons I really didn’t feel like doing it last week, so I’m doing it this week instead!

Monday 1st February

Ah, a new month, where did January go? Well, welcome to February and this month we have the first ever promotional week for our Information Services department (IS for You Week).  I’ll be doing a lot of prep for this this week I think.  This morning I walked to work instead of cycling as Mr I was going to be giving my bike a bit of TLC and trying to get a bit of rust off…

I thought I may be doing my first interview this afternoon for IS for You Week so I was getting to grips with the flashy recording equipment the guys at BURST radio sent over to us last week.  I know how to record and delete now, so that’s a start.  So I chatted to myself for a bit (my colleague wasn’t in the office) and got the hang of it.  Sadly the afternoon meeting didn’t happen, but tomorrow I’m recording someone else so at least I know what I’m doing.  Think I want to change my voice though, maybe I’ll make it go up and down a bit more to try and sound a bit more interesting! Maybe I’ll take some advice from here.

so then it was on to the enquiry desk from 10.45-1, and one of the first enquiries was a tricky one.  A nice Canadian student wanted to find information about cash registers between the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, and it really made me think! She’d already done a bit of Googling, and she was expecting recommendations of sources she didn’t know about, so as I was thinking started browsing the list of online resources we have and when she spotted the 19th Century newspapers databasewe had a look there and found a few references to early models of tills.  A few months ago my husbnad mentioned a resource he’d looked at in class and I remembered it was about museum collections, so we took a look at Cornucopia and the student was really pleased to find a listing of museum collections as she didn’t know how to find such a list before (thank you again Mr I!).   Even after the student went I kept looking for resources as I was sure there must be more out there…manged to spot a few more links I could email her.

Lunchtime was a cakey affair, I was given a very delicious homemade lemon cupcake, and I also sampled some of the cakes brought in my a colleague celebrating her birthday (the cappucino swiss roll was my favourite).

At 2pm I had a meeting with a member of academic staff who had some new module outlines, so I can use these to check the texts we have in the library and order more books if needed.  We also discussed the upcoming course review as the Information Advisers send in a report of how we have supported the courses over the last year, so we just need to tweak last year’s report as the basic information is similar, just the stats need to be updated.

After that I ordered a few books, checked over some of the module outlines, added some resources to the VLE and then prepared to head up to London for the Career Development Group Presidential Resception! This was to celebrate the new President Jon Scown taking over from Maria Cotera.  It was held at the British Library, and as I walked in I was delighted to meet Ned Potter (AKA the Wikiman) for the first time in real life, having only ever conversed on Twitter/email/via blogs before now.  Next I met Jo Alcock and Katie Hill, and I’d read Jo’s blog for a couple of year, and chatted virtually a few times so again it was great to meet her in real life!  It was a nice evening full of chat and I was glad I went.  Librarian Emma and Chris Rhodes did a good job welcoming us as we arrived, and it was very nice to have some friendly and familiar faces there as it can sometimes be a bit daunting arriving at something like that on your own.  I was impressed by all the bling there was, medals and shiny badgegs everywhere! I didn’t know that past presidents all had nice gold brooches/badges, and the current president has a lovely medal on a red ribbon!  Biddy Fisher (President of CILIP) was there too, and she had a nice silver medal, it was quite heavy actually.   Jon mentioned in his speech that his colleagues said he should wear his medal to meetings, good idea I think!!

Well, I headed home at about 8.15, took a bus back to Victoria as I only had enough for bus and not the tube on my Oyster card! Good journey home, munched on some cheese sandwiches and a posk pie from M&S as I was a bit hungry.  The mini quiche and a cheese straw didn’t quite keep me going at the reception, I was too busy chatting mostly to eat much! Librarian Emma took photos so watch out for those on one of her next posts.

Librarian Sarah

Library day in the life – round 4, day 4

Is it really Thursday already? Yowsers.

I’m still at work as it’s my #latenightlibrarian duty until 9pm. I got here circa 9.15 today to discover my colleague had done herself a mischief tripping over and landing quite heavily on her hand. She was first aided, but ended up having to go to A&E just be sure she was all ok and just bruised rather than broken. Still, made things a bit trying for her today!

So,  I was  bit grumpy this morning for no particular reason, which generally makes me even more grumpy, because I can’t rationalise it! Idiot! Anyway, I had the usual start to my day- emails. Emails, emails, emails, emails. I finally sorted out the journals stuff for GY327 and the lecturer seems pleased, this was the start of his reply:

‘Wow, you are super-efficient in the library.’

Loves it! So, journal articles have been requested. Great.

I then did some more preparing for the recording for BURST and went over to Watts where we have a sound studio. Phil (the sound engineer) and I set things up and did some testing, testing, checking the levels and all that and we were ready to go. My colleagues arrived and we had a discussion about safe computing. This will feature in IS for you Week. One of my colleagues, Robert Schifreen used to be a hacker, so knows all about safe computing!! Recording went well and was fun too.

We had a break for lunch, desk lunch for me again, (which I actually hate doing, but have done twice this week I think, naughty) this gave a bit of time to catch up on emails etc. I then went back over to Watts and loaded the recording onto a computer with Adobe Soundbooth on, I would have preferred Adobe Audition, but that isn’t on the computer I was using, nevermind. I made a start on the editing, which takes a bloody age! I really enjoyed it though. I used to do internet radio stuff back in the day and this was a reminder of how much I did enjoy it.

Anyway, bits of editing done and back to the office to try and organise more recording for BURST with our SUVP for Education and Equalities and our Director of IS. Still need to schedule these in, but the SUVP for EE seems keen which I’m pleased about.

Freaking out slightly about the lack of time we have, but we’ll get it done. Sarah and I will be out and about harrassing students for their views and ideas about IS. I’m looking forward to that

So, I’m now on the enquiry desk and it’s been a fairly busy session. Things keep breaking, well a phone and the printer credit machine, I’ve had to do a few more walk arounds than normal to try and keep the noise levels down as we’ve had a few complaints about that. For the most part though, people seem to respect others are trying to work, but there’s always a rowdy few!!!

Tomorrow is set to be another busy day with more IS for you Week stuff, this time a photo competition to discuss and get moving on. Then an enquiry desk and then I’m off to a Career Development Group London and South East Committee meeting at UCL. Phew!

I’ve got chartership activities that need attention which will have to be this weekend I think. Rock and roll!

Ok, that’s the end for today, just half an hour to go for Late night librarian Emma.

Library day in the life – round 4, day 3

Mid week already and another busy day.

I was a bit later arriving to work today and finally started climbing the email mountain circa 9.30am. A colleague was off poorly, so we had two desk sessions to cover. I volunteered for the 1-3.15 slot as I wasn’t scheduled to be on the enquiry desk at all today. I ended up splitting the session with another colleague in the same position.

So, once emails had been done, I went and placed my votes on the names for the drop in sessions we will be running from February.
I had some follow up to do with a lecturer about a book, a DVD and copyright. The copyright issue took up a fair amount of time and we’re now waiting to hear back from the publisher as to whether we can have permission to photocopy under our licence with the CLA. Following this I did another bit of searching for some journal articles requested by a lecturer for a module starting next semester, there’s a fair few of them to get through and I managed to finish this today! Hurray!
I had some reservations to sort out and a request from another of our libraries for a book to have there for semester 2. That was sorted and sent over to them.

I then had a brief visit from my mentor Sarah Friend, who was dropping off two marantz audio recording kits for Sarah and I to use to get some material for IS for you week for BURST, which led on to some emails about that too. We’re organised to record the first piece tomorrow morning, so we’ll see how that goes!

I had some lunch at my desk while checking Twitter and the blogs that I subscribe to. I then went down to do my bit of the enquiry desk session. Back up to the office with a hot chocolate and a quick check through the latest reservations list. Sarah and I then met to have a go with the audio recording kits, which are great! We’ve figured them out, pretty straight forward to use, so we’re good to go tomorrow, hopefully!

I then attended an open meeting with the VC about the future of the university, it doesn’t sound great, but it seems we are in a better position that some other universities. There was the opportunity for questions and the idea of these open meetings on a termly basis seemed very welcome by staff. I’d be rubbish as a VC or any sort of managerial type!! The sector as a whole has it’s work cut out for the coming years. We’ll see how it goes.

The day was rounded off with preparations for the recording tomorrow. We’ve got the people, we’ve got the topic, we’ve got the equipment – this can only go well!!

Tonight is belly dancing, so I’d better get my shimmy on!
Librarian Emma