Friday, April 21, 2006

Conference papers

When CW over on her blog wrote about getting a conference paper accepted and about the subsequent avoidance of putting pen to pen - or more likely finger to keyboard - I thought it was quite amusing. Until I got an email saying a proposal a colleague and I had send off a while ago had been accepted - suddenly it wasn't so amusing!

We're going to talk about library induction and library anxiety and um... doughnuts. If you want to know more sign up for e-Lit 2006 in Loughborough!

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Why time management is a bad thing

I've always had the feeling there was something fundamentally wrong with a time management system that would have you writing out long 'to do' lists and struggling through them. I thought it might just be a personal aversion to 'to do' lists, but now one of my favourite business bloggers has put his fing..., um, I mean paw, on exactly what is wrong with time management.