Thing 3: The "Nia Williams" Brand
I read the thing 3 blog this morning along with some of the other blogs recommended by Jo Alcock and it made me think, as I suppose was the point. What is MY brand? The "Nia Williams" brand. And to be...
View ArticleReplying to comments
Ta to World's Deadliest Librarian for the blog linking up to how to add a reply button to comments on your blog. Thought I'd pass the link on as well!...
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Well as I said I was considering changing my Twitter username to match my blog username a.k.a. llyfrgellyddcymraeg unfortunately this is too long for Twitter therefore I'm going to stick with what I...
View ArticleThing 4 - Current Awareness - Twitter, RSS and Pushnote
Hmm... Thing 4 seems to be a bit of a tricky one. I'm trying to understand/get the hang of all three of these mediums.Twitter - I'm managing OK with Twitter, though until recently I had only a handful...
View ArticleCPD23 - Wales Meet Up anyone??
I've noticed that Wales doesn't seem to have anybody arranging a meet up for cpd23. If anybody's interested I'm willing to arrange a meeting either in Aberystwyth or Swansea (as I know those fairly...
View ArticleY Llyfrgell ar film
English at the bottom.Dim ond nodyn cyflym i ddweud rhywbeth bach answyddogol am ddathliadau canmlwyddiant Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Nid canmlwyddiant y llyfrgell fel sefydliad neu hyd yn oed fel...
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Love your Library? Give it a cwtch!
As I was saying the other day, the National Library of Wales is currently celebrating the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone. And as a part of that, today the staff and the public will be...
View ArticleThing 5 - Reflective Practice
OK. So I've been avoiding Thing 5 all week. Reflective practice isn't my strong point. Description yes but reflection not so much. Hopefully this blog and following cpd23 will help change this as I...
View ArticleThing 6 - Online Networks
1. LinkedInI joined LinkedIn a while ago, more out of curiosity than anything else. I haven't used it that much and find it difficult to use. So far I have seven connections and these are all people...
View ArticleThing 7: Face-to-face networks and Professional Organisations
Well of all the organisations listed the only one I'm actually a paying member of is CILIP and so far I haven't found it particularly useful. This may be due to my nature as a lurker but is probably...
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Library Day in the Life: Round 7 Day 1
Job: Senior Officer of Newspapers and Periodicals (Digitisation Project) at the National Library of WalesI've heard about the "Library Day in the Life" Project before and after seeing it advertised...
View ArticleThing 8: Google Calendar
I like this thing as I'm already using it. Sporadically anyhow. I did use it much more often with people from the digitsation project but then the library started using the Thunderbird calendar across...
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Library Day in the Life: Round 7 Day 2
Tuesday 26th July 20118:15am Arrived at work8:20am Computer on8:25am Checked emails etc and found that I now had the right to Edit the Project page on PBWiki. So this blog has now been added to the...
View ArticleLibrary Day in the Life Round 7 Day 3
Wednesday July 27th 20118:32am Arrived in work.8:37am Turned on the computer, checked my emails etc.8:45am Split up my Day in the Life blog into days as it was getting a bit long. I didn't realise I...
View ArticleThing 9: Evernote
Hmm, right well I'm in the middle of downloading Evernote to my laptop and trying to figure out what I'll use it for. So far I haven't a clue. Mind you thinking about it with all the websites cpd23 has...
View ArticleThing 10 - Graduate traineeships. Masters Degrees, Chartership and Accreditation
Hmm... So this Thing explores how I got to where I am (I'm currently working on a Digitisation Project at the National Library of Wales) and what made me decide on the librarianship route. As this is...
View ArticleThing 11: Mentoring
Currently I don't have a mentor. At least not officially. There are one or two people at work who I suppose could be described as mentors in an unofficial capacity (not sure what they'd think of this...
View ArticleThing 12: Putting the Social into Social Media
Social Media is my friend. Honestly, it is! How else would I have made so many contacts in the library world so quickly? I've got into contact with a whole host of people during cpd23 that I don't...
View ArticleThing 13: Google Docs, Wikis and Dropbox
Google DocsWell in theory Google Docs is quite handy but if I used it I would probably only use it to share documents with people outside of work. Inside work the Intranet allows you to create a...
View ArticleThing 14: Zotero / Mendeley / citeulike
OK so I've got quite a bit of catching up to do really consideing we're already on Thing 18 and I'm only just doing Thing 14. So... Here goes...Zotero While I haven't downloaded Zotero yet and haven't...
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