CILIP North West Member Network Blog

 Blog by Daisy Hogarth CPD is something we all want to do, but conference places are expensive, right? I’d highly recommend reaching out to CILIP NW for support through their bursary scheme. I found myself wanting to attend this year’s CILIP Conference but with no way of funding it. I work for a public library, so support via work financially was out of the question, and I didn’t have the money to fund the entire conference myself. I decided to reach out to CILIP NW and see what support I could be offered, and found the bursary application really simple and not too onerous to complete. I found out pretty quickly that I had been successful in my application to receive some money towards my ticket and the process of then obtaining my ticket with this money was really simple. Now on to the good stuff, the day! The conference was in Birmingham so I got the train from Liverpool. I used the train journey to have some uninterrupted reading time, something I don’t normally get to do on ...

 Written by Bethany O'Donoghue, Systems Assistant at University of Manchester Library I was lucky to be successful in obtaining a bursary to attend UKSG's 'Introduction to Resource Discovery' online seminar split over Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th November. I found out about the event from a LIS-Link email and thought it would be useful to attend as it would expand upon my current (admittedly rudimentary) knowledge of Discovery within libraries. In my application I listed my interests for going were to improve my technical skills, learn more about metadata and learn how libraries use Discovery and I can confirm that this seminar met all of these aims and more. Each day the seminar began with a welcome from Anja Van Hoek (of Amsterdam University Press) and Magaly Bascones (of Gale). Each welcome was very friendly, established the structure of the webinar, provided insight into how to ask the presenters questions, and fostered an environment of enthusiasm towards what we...