A quick post to start the year, on the January GLAM Blog Club theme of “What I learned last year and/or what I want to learn this year”. Last year was a big year for me on the learning front. I started to learn how to be a manager, after … Continue reading
Earlier this week marked 100 days since I started in my new job, which is my first experience of being a library manager. Taking a leaf out of Sally’s (The Library Boss) book I thought I’d take the opportunity to celebrate and reflect on what I’ve achieved in that time: … Continue reading
It’s been just over a month since I started my new job and became a first-time library manager. It’s gone very well, and I think I made the right decision to take this opportunity. In my first few weeks on the job I’ve done some collecting, which fits nicely with … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I posted about how busy this year has been for us in terms of geocaching. Well, it hasn’t gotten any slower! Earlier in July we spent a week on holidays in Cairns. We had a good time enjoying the warmer weather, and doing some day trips … Continue reading
As well as working on a couple of other challenges, we’ve recently starting focussing on trying to find “unloved” geocaches i.e. ones which haven’t been found for six months or more. Our motivation for doing this is to rescue the caches to keep them active, and in some cases to … Continue reading
As mentioned in a previous post, this has been a very busy geocaching year for us. We’re working on three challenges that have helped with this. The first of these started in April, when we began to work on filling our calendar. In order to do this, we need to … Continue reading
2018 is shaping up to be the biggest geocaching year yet for Sensible Shoes. We started the year on 524 finds, and currently we’re on 762 finds. That’s 238 finds this year alone – over half of all the finds from our previous 10 years! If we keep this up … Continue reading
I’m not really the artistically creative type, so for this month’s GLAM Blog Club I’ll be talking about creating the next stage of my career. Next month I’ll be starting a new job as the manager of a small special library. This role is my first ever management position, and … Continue reading
The theme for this month’s newCardigan GLAM Blog Club is “Happiness”, so here, in no particular order, are some of the things that make me happy. I guess the most important thing I’m happy about is making the career switch into librarianship. As I’ve discussed previously, I started my working … Continue reading
My former colleague Fiona has started a monthly journal club on her blog, and this month’s article about Boolean searching piqued my interest. Fiona posted a couple of questions to get the discussion going, and I thought I’d contribute my opinions to the discussion. In case you haven’t guessed from … Continue reading