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National Library of Wales presentation on becoming an information professional at Gregynog.
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Becoming an Information Professional
Nia Williams
My first steps to becoming an information professional
• Making a choice
• Creating my own Graduate Trainee experience
• Choosing a Masters course
• My experience at Loughborough
• My first professional post
• Building and complimenting my skills
2007 – Graduation from Swansea University
History BA(Hons) – What next? Teacher?
Archivist?Librarian?
2007 – 2008 My first steps to becoming an information professional
• Too late to take up a position as an “official” Graduate Trainee.
• Started volunteering at my local Public Library – Neath Library.
• NPT County Council employed me as a Library Assistant from November 2007 until May 2008.
Summer 2008
•Eight weeks at Swansea University Library
•Part II – Of my “unofficial” Graduate Traineeship
•Given the opportunity to:-Shadow and complete tasks with various Subject Librarians
A week at SWML
Cataloguing
2008-2009 Loughborough University
• Information and Library Management MA
Information Needs and Use
Research Management
Information Law, Policy and Society
Web Design and Web Analytics
Collection Management and Preservation
Information Organisation and Retrieval
Management and Marketing of Information Services
Information Services and Libraries
Digital Curation
Dissertation: “A race of men who will read and inwardly digest” (Glamorgan Free Press). The Miners’ Institute Libraries of South Wales and their users, c. 1880 – c. 1945.
September 2009 – Present
Senior Officer of Newspapers and Periodicals at the National Library of Wales
Digitisation Project
• The biggest digitisation project the Library has ever undertaken
• 2 million pages of 19th Century Newspapers and Periodicals to be digitised
Facts and Figures
Correct on the 1st of June 2011
My role within the project…
Line Managemen
t
Metadata
Creation
Checking
Metadata
Uploading Metadata to WOMBAT
Surveying the libraries holdings of 19th Century Newspapers
and Periodicals
Bringing volumes together in
Digitisation Suite
Returning volumes to the stacks once digitisation is complete
Liaising
Saturdays in the Reading
Room
Staff supervisionAnswering reader
queries
Using VIRTUA
Working withthe readers
What next in my quest to become an Information Professional?
Chartership
23 Things for Professional Development
Taking the next step on theCareer Ladder
• Picture of Neath Library - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1330294
• Picture of Swansea University Library - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swansea-University-Library-and-Information-Services/141938469175330
• Picture of Loughborough University Library - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/about/index.html
• Picture of National Library of Wales -
http://www.rsawaw.org/archive.php
• CILIP logo – www.cilip.org.uk
• CPD23 logo - http://cpd23.blogspot.com/
• Career Ladder - http://adminsecret.monster.com/benefits/articles/420
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