I had my first performance review with my manager yesterday to discuss how I was getting along with all of my new tasks that I had picked up since starting to work here. I think that I am getting along okay, and she seemed to agree, which is great news. I also mentioned that I would like to take on a bit more work if possible because I seem to have the time for it at the minute, and so I hopefully will be getting to try my hand at a few other areas of the information service, which is all good news for my chartership and experience!
I really think that I need to start looking for some training courses to go on but there are just so many of them to choose from. I will have to have a really good think about what training I can realistically get from practical experience on the job and reading, and identify any gaps in my skills that I need to fill and base it upon that. I think that one thing that I may need to attend courses on is general management as I am not really getting the chance to learn things like that here (particularly managing people) due to the organisational structure of the information service (i.e. there ain’t really any library assistants that I am responsible for). So perhaps that’s an area that would do well to be covered by something like a training course. The other problem is that they all seem to be in London!! Hardly anything ever seems to be up in Scotland, so I will need to plan a little ahead if I am going to go to anything like that. I wonder what kind of training everyone else in my position is getting to do? I should count myself lucky however, that I am in the position to go to these if I wish, and that my employer will pay for it. I guess many people don’t have that kind of priviledge.
Finally, just wanted to say (again, think I may have mentioned it before but not sure) how great the LIS-CILIP-REG mailing list is (it’s for chartering librarians to keep in touch with each other/ask questions/compare experience etc.). I submitted a quick query about whether I should have received notification of my registration for chartership from CILIP (as i had not heard back from them) and within a couple of minutes I had at least five responses and an email from CILIP apologising for not getting back to me and saying that they would send something out once my application had been processed. Magic!
And how cute is the picture????
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