A beginning

I will be using this blog to record my journey towards chartership in the library profession. I have recently completed my post graduate degree and, in the next week will start my role as People's Network Librarian for a Scottish Council. I will use this blog to record my progress and ideas as I go on.

I am a dedicated and enthusiastic Information and Library Studies graduate, with professional experience within academic libraries, public libraries and with learndirect Scotland, and also a member of CILIP.

I have also written and edited for a variety of magazines, including The List, Skinny Mag, Clash Magazine and Mixmag, plus editing and cataloguing the online pages for the Skinny Mag online site.

I have experience of cataloguing, archiving, reference services, database searching and all other day to day library tasks in public libraries. I have also carried out systems testing within a digital library and built resource lists for a digital library within an academic library. At a key government learning provider I worked in the field of information literacy and e-learning resources and specialised in this within my studies. I also created courses material that could be used within Public Libraries.

I plan to transfer these skills and learn new ones in my new role and I aim to keep this blog updated with all I do.