I was lucky enough to attend my work’s User Experience (UX) Research & Design training with UK’s UX trainer and consultant, Andy Priestner. It was a 4-day workshop and during that time, Andy introduced and showed us how we could apply UX research and design techniques in libraries. I’ve always thought that the term ‘UX’…
Tag: professional development
Data Unleashed – The data we’ve always had
Last week I attended a workshop called Data Unleashed hosted by LINC Tasmania. As the name suggests, the session was about the data collected by and are readily available from LINC Tasmania and other libraries and government institutions. Speakers discussed their use of available data for research, work and creation of informational products. Three LINC…
My DIY Presentation
My Abstract Proposal Last year, I submitted an abstract proposal to become a speaker at the 8th New Librarians Symposium (NLS8). To my surprise, it (the abstract proposal, which was in the form of an HTML file) got accepted. “Hurrah!”, I thought, “I’m off to Canberra in June!” My Mentor I participated in the NLS8’s…
My NLS7: The beach ball connection
I really, really, really wanted to attend NLS7. I’ve put in a proposal for a presentation but that was rejected. I’ve put in an application to become a volunteer but again that was rejected. I nearly lost all hope when suddenly….I saw a call out for a competition to win a registration pass. All I had…
Another long pause…
Yikes! Another long pause in between blog entries. Sorry about that folks. I’ve been busy trying to get my hands on entrepreneurship. Yes I am in the process (creating artwork/crafts; organising market stalls and creating a website/online shop from scratch – well sort of – WordPress kinda helps me a bit) of selling my handcrafted…
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