cpd23; engage

First web 2, then the concept of librarian 2.0, and somewhere I heard of, or read, web 3, but perhaps I was imagining things.

So why participate in CPD23?
With time and cost pressure on CPD from the workplace, web2 is ideal; librarians are gatekeepers to information, now the gate posts have moved into the clouds where more work is developing and we need to keep up. So participation in CPD23 will help underpin what I know, and help develop new areas to develop. As a mentor for, and member of  CILIP, I have to keep up with current trends to help my CPD and those of my mentees.

My career?
I have been in libraries now since 1978, when I was a small lad selling books from the school library, and 12 years later I graduated with a library degree and went into my first job building a museum library from scratch. 21 years later, I am about to be made redundant because of skewed data and the economic crunch. I have been a solo librarian in commercial libraries, a three year stint using transferable skills in mortgage processing, and in a further education college since 1999. So at the moment I am looking at the end of library work here in Hampshire because of local authority cuts on professionals, a freeze on MOD library jobs, and not enough experience to enter University Libraries. So once again transferrable skills will take me on a new path in the local job market.

What am I hoping to learn from CPD23?
New ways of managing, and communicating information; where to find new web 2 tools, and present perhaps a new way of showing my image in the virtual world.

Most or least looking forward to with CPD23?
Most looking forward to gaining new contacts; there are no negatives about taking part in CPD23.

What do I feel about blogging?
Just a place to reflect and record on events either of personal or public in nature which I feel are worthy of mention, and the possible hope others may find comments useful. I have restarted my blogging activity in the light of my redundancy to record events, focus my thoughts, share information to the world who want to listen, and show the interconnectedness of knowledge.