Stamping The Books

Rudai 11: Professional Brand and Identity All this talk about professional brand, image and identity had led me to reflect and think about what image I am presenting professionally to the world, especially in this social media driven society we seem to be in the middle of, and which I struggle to feel a part of. But  on the topic of professional branding, Facebook is my private domain and not something I wish to open up to all and sundry, and currently I only use twitter as a work social media project to highlight and promote the work of the library not me, and LinkedIn is some distant memory of site I registered with once, and a quick google search of my name produces a few references and links which are relatively unobjectionable. But nothing that says ‘Here is Stephen Leitch, library and information professional’ if anyone goes looking for information on me. Change is needed. I’ve just resurrected my LinkedIn account though I realise it needs a lot of work to bring I up to ...

Rudai 10: Facebook A group I have joined and followed for a while now has been Future Ready Librarians which I joined as it looked interesting and popped up as a suggested link. https://www.facebook.com/groups/futurereadylibrarians/ It is linked to the Future Ready website which is promoting how librarians can be a part of the future ready schools programme in the USA. I joined as a thought this may be an avenue for me to go down in my school library, especially with online and information handling and seeking skills being a high priority at school. The Facebook group has turned out to be perhaps not as useful for moving towards that goal as i  originally thought, but has proved to be a brilliant space to discuss library related questions and queries and ask for help and ideas. Also, folks in the group are rather good at sharing visuals for displays for which I have gained many an idea! It’s good to be able to offer advice on questions fellow librarians are asking and a...

Photo taken by Stephen Leitch Taking time to pause and reflect on tasks undertaken can be a challenging undertaking, and one this librarian has found at times troublesome but ultimately very useful to do.  Below are my reflections upon tasks 3, 7, and 8 for task 9 of Rudai 23.  Visual communication is a key part of society and increasingly part of work on the internet. Tasks 3, 7, and 8 of Rudia 23 have challenged me to look at new approaches to this using image banks, online exhibitions, and infographics. For image banks I undertook the take of exploring on of the image banks mentioned in the post, select an image and post this to my blog. I decided to use Pixabay. You can view the image I selected  here  .  For the online exhibition I undertook the task to create an online exhibition by ‘taking a paper based brochure or poster for a collection or service and recreate it in an online exhibition using a blog.’ The blog I created ‘Those That Came Bef...

Burning the Clavie at Burghead is a very old tradition, where a burning barrel is carried around the village, then placed on the remains of the old fort ramparts to burn down. The origin is lost in time. You can find out more here:  http://www.burghead.com/clavie/ I enjoy attending this event. It's a link back to the past, and there are precious few of these left now.