Library Trainee in Oxford no more…

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 [...]

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A new role: In charge of the newsletter

As part of my traineeship, and to get a taste of as many tasks within the collection as possible, I have now been given the role of looking after the monthly email newsletter. I have been overseeing the subscriptions for a few months now, so I am familiar with the ‘newsletter editor/server’ we use (www.graphicmail.com). [...]

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Library Day in the Life (Round 4): Thursday

Thursday 28th January 2010 6.00 – Wake up and face the cold, at least it’s Thursday!  7.00 – Go for bus.  8.15 – Get into work 15 minutes later than usual; despite buses being on time and hardly any traffic. Odd. Get Mocha coffee, check emails, and reply to those I need to. Have phonecall [...]

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Learning the library’s content

When searching for new resources to add to the collection, my supervisor still checks over what I am going to add. Just as well, as I often pick up a mass of information which we won’t link to. This is probably true for many libraries (‘should I stock this, or is it not really relevant’ [...]

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My Library: NHS Evidence – Women’s Health

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 [...]

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