RSS feeds - baby steps only

Hello there, it's been a while but I have managed to find some time to pick up thing 5 of 23 things.  I'm a little bit behind on the schedule, so I'm hoping this whole RSS thing works fairly smoothly.
I went to Zetoc to set up a contents page alert - after a couple of false starts I think I might have managed it.

Advances in Librarianship

Although having looked at it in preview format, I'm not wholly convinced.

I'll try with another couple of journals which I know updates regularly and see if that will also do the thing.

Health information and libraries journal

College and Research libraries news

and if this one doesn't work I'll be really cross

BBC news

So I've set up four, and my apologies if it now sends far too many blog posts.  I'll work out a way to get them neater.

Back from London

Just to post that I had a really interesting time at the eBooks and econtent conference on Thursday 9th, which gave me lots to think about in terms of new technology.  The big drive was about publishers moving away from 'flat' pdf eBook to more whizzy ePub3 format. This is a format which takes advantages which technology offers of adding extra digital content eg embedding videos.  There was also a fair quantity of chat about the teaching organisations writing their own course books...could be another job role, getting the publisher clearances.

Alongside the day, I also managed to submit my chartership portfolio to CILIP whose building is just down the road, whilst getting only marginally sidetracked in the Gower Street Waterstones.  So, that is now done.  I got home to discover I had a phonecall from CILIP.  It turned out I was minus a form on my submission, however I was able to get it sent to them on Friday.

On the train up I read "The art of hearing heartbeats" by Jan Senker, which I had borrowed from the public library.  A very gentle tale about love and commitment, economically written but gaining impact because of that.  Well worth the effort.  Less scholarly was the teenage semi autobiography by Ned Vinizzi, "It's a kind of funny story", I read on the way back, but it was late, and my brain was rather tired.

And yes, it was a long wait before my train home, and Waterstones on Piccadilly and John Lewis on Oxford Street did benefit considerably!

Vanity searching and portrayal

I've just done my vanity search on the internet, it was extremely unproductive in terms of being able to tell anything about me, so I am quite pleased. 

 

What was interesting was the I have namesakes who are variously

• an international artist
• Madrid based journalist
• international actress
• singer

 and those are just for starters infact, from just a quick scan, I would say that none are information professionals, let alone librarians.

 

Why am I pleased that I'm not on the internet...because I can do without exhusband finding out stuff which isn't his concern.  I am very aware of the potential for reputational effect of posting, so don't come here for salacious news and gossip people.

 

If I did want to be more widely known on the Internet, which I don't, I would be using this for job hunting purposes so my brand would have to be very professional, information person.  I think I had better work on that description a bit more, but I know what I mean.

 

At the moment I am just chuffed that this seems to be working finally...need a cup of tea to recover.

Travelling in hope

Right, I have now started this three times however this may be the most promising point I have got to.  I have abandoned tumblr, mainly because it seemed to only want to link to other tumblr blogs.

I am seriously behind with this malarkey, but in my defence I have had a few other things in my life

CILIP portfolio - this will be submitted tomorrow

So, with one professional CPD item completed, and a book underreview but review not yet written, it's time to add yet another thing to my plate with 23 things.

Apologies if I have ignored your blogs, nothing personal, I have just been otherwise engaged.