Well, and that is that. My graduate library traineeship at Oxford University is finished, and it is back t’North for me! We (me and my boyfriend) will be moving to Lancaster (due to his doing a PhD!!) which I can’t wait for as Lancaster is where we both did our undergraduate degrees, and it is a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘library trainee’
Library Trainee in Oxford no more…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged library trainee, NHS Evidence - women's health on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Session on Presentation Skills
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged library trainee, personal reflection, Public speaking, trainee project on June 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we had a ‘Presentation skills’ training session. I wasn’t particularly sure how to approach and/or feel about this session. On the one hand, I could really use the help and practice as I am pretty sure a stuffed monkey has more presentational skills and confidence than me. On the other, I was nervous [...]
Trainee visit to the Cairns Library
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annual Evidence Updates, Cairns Library, library trainee, medical library, personal reflection on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week all the library trainees had a visit to the Cairns Library. I went along partly to see how the tour would be given (as opposed to me shadowing other librarians) and partly to see how the other trainees would respond to a medical library. There was a brief tour round the library, before [...]
Placement at the Cairns Library – Day 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cairns Library, library trainee on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My second day at the Cairns Library was the week before last; and as with the first, it was thoroughly enjoyable and interesting to sample the various tasks a health care librarian might encounter on a daily basis. Despite my visit first-thing last week to another library; usually Wednesday mornings begin with a staff briefing [...]
Placement at the Cairns Library – Day 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cairns Library, library trainee on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Well, last Wednesday was my first day at the Cairns Library; and it was great! On Wednesdays the library does not open until 10.00am due to staff training/meetings in the morning (which in future I will take part in); but on this first day I was going to go visit the Girdlestone Memorial Library at [...]
Placement at the Cairns Library – initial visit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cairns Library, library trainee on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today I went to visit the Cairns Library before my placement starts there in March (starting on the 3rd March I will shadow someone there every Wednesday for five weeks). I met with the head of Oxford Healthcare Libraries (HCL), and he showed me round the library and gave me some background information on the [...]
My Library: NHS Evidence – Women’s Health
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annual Evidence Updates, library trainee, NHS Evidence - women's health on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I will probably just regurgitate what I wrote about my trainee position on the Oxford Graduate Trainee blog but thought I would discuss in more detail what my position actually entails. I know from other trainees and people in general that my position as a library trainee isn’t quite clear. From what I can understand [...]
Entering the world of blogging
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, library trainee on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My name is Sarah, and I am the library trainee at the NHS Evidence – Women’s Health Specialist Collection (based at Oxford University). The collection (formerly a specialist library of the National Library for Health) is a free, online collection of the best evidence in the area of women’s health. This blog is intended to [...]
