The last two weeks have been taken up with the push for online learning we offer. This has required a lot of press releases being written and guides for th online learning to be printed. I have put the guides all over the libraries and branches to make them more prominent and put some information in the press. I have enjoyed this yet a couple of mistakes/inaccuracies on the guides have meant a couple of reprints and replacements being done but that has made me realise I need to be more careful as I have a habit of getting carried away when my excitement levels rise!

Another significant task has been dealing with an evironmental project that the council pays for in the library. This has been a different type of task as the council are really the clients of myself and the group that make the recycling video. This means we need to spend the 3000 wisely on tutor fees and libarry materials and produce a video they are happy with. My role is to spend the budget which I have found a lot harder than I thought I would! This has been a good lesson though as I am inexperienced with budgets and year ends and this has put the pressure on a little right now as I have still not decided what to spend it on!!

We are now in February and things all seem to be going well. My vent skills were tested to the full with our learndirect day that was designed to promote all our learning and other eductaional library services, the evnt went well with good feedback and around 500 attending. It also gave us a chance to raise the library profile as a whole with local council and press!

I have also held short training sessions on learndirect with the staff, this has been a good develkopment area as I enjoyed it and came across well but it has made me keen to try deleivering longer training sessions and I will get the chance to do this soon.

I have also been trying to develop my work within the wider learning community by agreeing to chair meetings or taking part in marketing or other service development areas in the wider adult learning environment. This is all good oppurtunities to help my chartership and overall development. As part of my chartership my PPDP is now finalised and I have been working towards some of the aims for a while already. I will now try and make sure I have a good amount of evidence to back it all up!