| Editorial:
Career Development Group 2.0
Welcome
to our first online edition of Impact!
The Career
Development Group is making the leap into the world of web
2.0 – Vice President Amanda Quick
writes about the initiatives CDG are embracing. And in keeping
with an online theme, in this issue are some articles full
of tips on how you can make web technologies work for you
in articles by Jennifer Findlay
and David Bruce, looking at ways in
which you can use wikis and blogs to put together your portfolios
and continue using to manage your professional development.
For those who have already gathered their evidence, Paul
Tovell shares his top tips in picking your evidence and
assembling your final application.
The skills
required of an information professional are ever changing
and ever diverse, and so we have some articles on two such
skills that we may be called upon - event planning and fundraising.
As former Honorary Events Co-ordinator for CDG, Amanda
Quick shares her experiences and wisdom in a comprehensive
guide to planning and running an event. Ideal for all
you active CDG members out there, and certainly some tips
everyone involved in events can learn from. For fundraising,
Humeyra Ceylan of the Islamic Foundation
Library talks about her experience with a fundraising project.
Yet with all the skills in the world, sometimes our career
paths aren’t as smooth as we would like. Daniel
Park, author of a series of articles on redundancy in
recent issues of Gazette has written for Impact on how to
recognise the signs and what to do about it.
Our International
Officer Maria Cotera writes
about one of CDG’s latest international projects, the
Zambia Prisons Library project, which was launched recently
and is a cause that CILIP’s Chief Executive, Bob McKee
is supporting in his own way – for more information,
see Maria’s article and a link to photographic evidence!
As always
some members have attended conferences and have kindly written
to share their experiences – we have roundups and reviews
of a conferences including the CDG national conference in
Brighton on ‘Engaging Communities’,
‘Engaging Learners’ and research
trends in the library and information field in ‘Featuring
the future’.
Enjoy
your online edition of Impact – and while you’re
online, why not sign up to the new CDGBulletin, a monthly
members only e-mail service bringing you details of events,
visits, news and short feautures. Sign up at http://www,jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/CDGBULLETIN.html.
Catherine
Davies
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