A new year.

Taking the opportunity of a few spare minutes to reflect that it is almost a year since I started in my post as Knowledge Support Librarian. I have learnt a lot and am very aware that I still have much to learn but am beginning to feel that I am making a valid contribution to the work of the Library service. 

I am enjoying the marketing part of my job and being involved in new developments  I am getting to know more people and making more contacts. The coming year is full of change with the re-organisation of the NHS but also budget cuts that we know are coming our way. I know it will not be fun but it will be interesting. But being part of a supportive team will help. 

So have started the blog and looked at a couple of others which are more colourful than mine - something I need to explore. But I  thought I could experiment with putting links into libraries that I have worked in.
Bracknell Forest where I started my library life and met some great people http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/librariesgeneralinformation
Royal Holloway University of London - I always felt so privileged to be able to work here http://www.rhul.ac.uk/library/home.aspx
Prince Consort's Library where I met lots of interesting characters including Prince Philip but no direct link to its webpage because of security http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Consort%27s_Library
and finally the Healthcare Library where I have worked since February and which is encouraging me to re-engage with the Library profession http://www.hantshealthcarelibrary.nhs.uk/libraries.asp

The Beginning

Well here I go. I am not a new professional having gained my MA in Information Management in 2001. I have worked in public libraries, in the academic sector, in a specialist military library and have recently taken up a post in the NHS working in a healthcare library. I feel that I need to reinvigorate my interests in professional matters and CPD23 seems a good way of encouraging me - who knows I might even complete my Chartership.