Day trip to Oxford

Tuesday 6th March saw me in Oxford all day at the home of Heritage Library Management software, receiving specialist training on the many areas of the management menu. My new job since January has been a systems librarian in all but name, but makes my last few years of managing and developing our library software officially part of my duties. I am currently blessed with a tame server engineer in IT who is glad of the support I give, and allows generous access to the two servers so I can tweak and play, sorry, develop our system. Very good lunch provided at the pub down the road, beats in house catering and makes things simpler for the company to manage. Training would have been better over two days as there is so much in the management module to cover, the few hours would not have suited the novice user; fortunately I have eight years experience to compensate, and I still learnt some new things, but mostly had confirmation what I had been doing was good. It was also good to meet some people I have been corresponding with on the Heritage mail service, Marvin.