Last Tuesday, I went back to work after a 7 week holiday (I only work during term time).
It is fair to say that I needed to be eased back in gently! It was good to catch up with my colleagues and see and hear about the changes in our library over the summer.
One of the main changes has been an extension of our library (into some of the staff room) as we will have a larger intake of students this year. The extension looks good but I only hope that we will be able to control the noise level in the library. The whole library is meant to be silent study. Is this realistic? We will see.
We also have one more person in the team for four days a week so that should help us.
From Wednesday to Friday our team were helping the college with enrollement. Our sixth form is very popular and entry requirements are quite stringent. Unfortunately this meant that a lot of young people coming in to enrol were very disappointed as they hadn't met the required grades. As I spent some time helping the Careers team, it was good to see the support that was on offer.
We predicted that the loss of the EMA this year would impact on numbers enrolling, but by Friday afternoon the majority of our courses were full.
I am looking forward to one more student free week where I can make progress with preparing inductions and cataloguing books.
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Thing 11
At the end of my post on Thing 10, I mentioned that I am interested in working towards Chartership and getting a mentor.
I really do believe it is worthwhile having mentors - both informal and formal - throughout your career. I have as yet not had anyone I could call a mentor.
I did have a look at CILIP's list of mentors. There were many within the London area but some already had at least a couple of mentees. Others only wanted to mentor someone at their own organisation and there were those who were only taking Chartership candidates.
I therefore think my options are either to register for Chartership and contact one of these mentors on the list, or to ask someone that I already know and work with. It is more appealing to approach someone I already know but then it's more likely they might say no or they might not have done mentoring before.
Still, I do have a couple of people in mind and I think my next step is really to get in touch and see what they say...I will keep you posted!
I really do believe it is worthwhile having mentors - both informal and formal - throughout your career. I have as yet not had anyone I could call a mentor.
I did have a look at CILIP's list of mentors. There were many within the London area but some already had at least a couple of mentees. Others only wanted to mentor someone at their own organisation and there were those who were only taking Chartership candidates.
I therefore think my options are either to register for Chartership and contact one of these mentors on the list, or to ask someone that I already know and work with. It is more appealing to approach someone I already know but then it's more likely they might say no or they might not have done mentoring before.
Still, I do have a couple of people in mind and I think my next step is really to get in touch and see what they say...I will keep you posted!
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