Graduate Library and Knowledge Services Trainee – 6 Month Update
My name is Amy Clancy and I am documenting my year as a Graduate Library and Knowledges Trainee with Greater Manchester Mental Health and Cheshire Wirral Partnership.…
Getting Retro’ with the planning posse
Members of the Great Up North Conference Planning Team met via Skype on 2nd July to discuss our learning from the recent event. Being good Knowledge Specialists, we chose the Retrospect from the KM Toolkit to help us to identify and record our reflections.…
Its Great Up North – Job Shadowing
When I was offered the chance to attend the Its Great Up North Conference on 6th and 7th June in Harrogate as part of job shadowing, I immediately said yes. Although I work in Health Education England,…
It's Great Up North - friendly and well organised (but Harrogate needs more pavements)
Health Libraries North was a friendly and well organised conference that was high energy and focused on ensuring positive experiences of the attendees. Whilst I didn’t gain any specific ideas on…
My Experience of It’s Great Up North 6-7th June 2019
I arrived in Harrogate with much trepidation having volunteered – after too much coffee and cake – to do a 3 Minutes of Mayhem presentation telling everyone all about HCLU Library Assistant Study Days and how much I had got out of them.…
When Your Twitter Quacks, Rather Than Tweets
You know you’re being indulged when you ask “What are we going to use as a twitter icon?” and the answer down the phone is use a duck! So Wat the duck came to pass! Then came the challenge of sourcing the real life duck that you’ve got a picture of…. thankfully the web provided!…
Preparing to present at Its Great up North – reflections on the support on offer
Gil’s Young’s warm invitation to all Northern healthcare library staff to present at “Its Great up North” hit my in-box last November. It looked really appealing, particularly for new presenters as the emphasis was on a relaxed and enjoyable event for healthcare staff at all levels.…
Need help promoting your service? Ask a publicity champion
My name’s John and I’m a Publicity Champion. This sounds like something you might hear in a church basement where everyone confesses their bad habits or at a seven-year-old’s fancy-dress party but for the past few months I’ve been working with other librarians up and down the country developing publicity materials for libraries to use to promote their services.…
The Garden Library is Open!
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Garden Library, based in the Four Seasons Café, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT).…
“I’m absolutely petrified to present!”
I’ve not been to many conferences before, and I was extremely excited about this one as knowing it would be full of other health library staff made it less daunting than the annual CILIP conference.…