Courses: Approaches to induction

This course reinforced an idea I have been getting from a variety of sources recently. To get your message across you need to keep it brief and to the point and make it relevant to your audience. Otherwise you risk your message getting lost in the background noise of information overload we all live with these days.

Wizards in the back office!

Half way through my second day of training on the new library system and have been only very slightly boggled some of the time. I have certainly understood enough of it to see that we will have some very nice new front end features to play with once it's up and running. The technical stuff is accessed via something called a back office wizard, but luckily we have our own real live back office wizards to deal with that!

Courses, courses, courses!

One of the things I have found this blog excellent for is keeping track of the various courses, conferences and training sessions that I attend. I can look back and remind myself of what I did when and any key points I might want to act on in future.

I've not been blogging much lately due to the usual excuses of pressure of work/life etc and I would like to get back into the habit. This week seems like a good time to do it as I have training events on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday!

Monday's was a course in supervisory skills. Today and Wednesday I get my first sessions on the rather interesting shiny new system that we're getting to replace our old library catalogue. Then on Thursday I'm off to London to a course on library induction where I will be presenting on our approach and, hopefully, doing a bit of what Tom Peters calls 'creative swiping' - being inspired by other people's ideas.

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