Superb day at @lilacconf.bsky.social Really happy with how my presentation, Introducing the TRYangle Approach, went. Very grateful to everyone who came to listen and especially to those who asked questions, spoke to me afterwards and caught up with me throughout the day. #LILAC26

Obligatory train selfie as I begin leg 1 of my journey to Sheffield for @lilacconf.bsky.social Very excited about speaking at the conference for the first time tomorrow morning! #LILAC26

Now that the draft programme is out there, I guess it's ok for me to say that I'm really excited to be presenting at this year's @lilacconf.bsky.social in March. I'll be talking about the TRYangle Approach, the framework I've put together for evaluating information sources, fit for the AI age.

This meant everything to me today. At the end of today's annual Southern University Libraries Conference attendees were asked for their most important takeaway using a Mentimeter word cloud. Central to the results & biggest of all was the word "tryangle"- let me explain why that's so special to me

Been a while since I've got an early morning train but off to Bournemouth today for the Southern University Libraries Networking Day at which I'm very excited (and a touch nervous) to be presenting something I've been working on for 2 years! Will be so nice to give it it's first public airing!

A reminder that CILIP's Academic & Research Libraries Group (of which I'm secretary) are hosting our AGM next Weds including a talk from CILIP CEO @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social & an opportunity to contribute to the CILIP strategy consultation. Register to attend using the link in the post below!

I've typed up my summary of the key themes and ideas I took away from last week's brilliant @uksg.bsky.social Conference: Notes from the UKSG Conference 2025 in Brighton www.linkedin.com/pulse/notes-... #UKSG2025

Home, unpacked and snuggling on the sofa with the kiddo after a fantastic 3 days in Brighton for #UKSG2025 So many ideas and learning to unpack but that can wait until tomorrow. For now I just want to say a huge thank you to the organisers and speakers who made it such a great event.

Another really interesting day at #UKSG2025 As someone whose role mainly focuses on student support and info lit skills I'm loving learning more about the publishing debates, with a couple of fascinating panels on the alternatives to the journal establishment.

Really interesting and thought provoking first day at #UKSG2025 One thing that's clear, 2 years into the GenAI boom there is no consensus on the answers for libraries, guidance and governance...in fact some of the answers offered today I fundamentally disagreed with 🤣 The debate rages on!

The journey begins, Woolston-Brighton. See you soon #UKSG2025

Suitcase is packed. Very excited to being making the journey eastward along the south coast to Brighton for #UKSG2025 in the morning!

The outcomes of this research are really interesting. The % of inaccurate results from GenAI search tools makes them plain useless...but the ease with which people can search for & find info makes them too tempting for a lot of people. AI literacy is so important! www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Today is my 20 year anniversary of working in libraries! It's got me in a reflective mood and so I've written a little something about my librarianship journey so far and what I see as my plans for the next 20 years! www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflec...

We are currently firming up our AGM plans. Watch this space for date/time. We'd love to see you there!

Day tickets are now available for DARTs conference 21-22/5/25 The main theme is "Empowering Librarians to conduct and support research". For more details go to: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... Questions? Please email [email protected]

The CILIP Academic & Research Libraries Group (of which I'm secretary) are now on here. Please give us a follow and get in touch if you'd be interested in getting involved in joining us and helping put on events! @cilip-arlg.bsky.social

I've started running some "play with AI" sessions for library colleagues and am prepping the next one looking at the idea of "answer engines" and playing with Perplexity. As they're billed as an alternative to traditional search engines I thought I'd ask it something I would usually Google... 1/4

Really interesting & brilliantly titled article about postgrad research students use & opinions of GenAI. A more balanced outcome than a lot of the discourse around AI, especially when I heard an academic proclaim that the written assignment is dead last week!🤦 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the #Oscars noms announced yesterday I got to work on my annual spreadsheet of tracking what films from the categories I had and hadn't seen in an attempt to watch as many of the nominated films before the ceremony. I've got 24 to watch in the next 5 weeks to tick off all feature length awards!

Have booked my place to attend the @uksg.bsky.social conference in March! Not attended this conference before so looking forward to it, the programme certainly looks very interesting. Plus, always a delight to spend a few days in Brighton! Anyone else I know on here attending?

Research finds that people with a higher level of AI Literacy are less likely to use AI tools. So obviously the recommendation of the article is that we need to scale back AI Literacy training! 🤦 No, no, no, no, NO! theconversation.com/knowing-less...

The number one movie at the box office on your 10th birthday is how 2025 will turn out for you. I'm taking this as a positive. Hopefully it means I'm going to inspire my students!

I like to keep stats on all of the films I've watched for the first time each year (something that's been greatly aided by the advent of Letterboxd) and then compile an annual list of my top 5 as well as an overview of key stats. So here's my 2024 breakdown! Would love to hear your favourites!

Out of office is on and I'm shutting down for 2 weeks. I hope you have a peaceful holidays however you celebrate (or even if you don't). See you next year! 🎄

I cannot recommend LILAC enough. If you're working with information literacy in any capacity it's such a useful conference. I've loved attending the last two years & am gutted that I can't make it to Cardiff for 2025. Keep an eye out for bursaries - fewer people apply for these than you'd think

I've had a crazy busy last 5 weeks of back to back support appointments with our Adult Nursing students as they complete their dissertation. Seeing them go from panic to understanding, knowing I've made a difference, has made it worthwhile though - that & this bag of goodies from the Nursing team

Happy #ChristmasJumperDay Frankly everyday is Xmas jumper day at the moment for me but today's the official one and offers an important reminder of the great work that Save The Children do at this time of year (and always).

Today Karl McCormack from Uni of Staffordshire introduced us to playful learning using Playmobil! We had to adorn a figure with 5 items that represented us. Was a great way of encouraging us to introduce ourselves to others with details unlikely to have come up in a standard intro This is me...

Obligatory "I'm on a train heading to a library event" selfie. Used to be up and down to London a few times a year for training and events pre-pandemic but far less opportunity to do so these days, so nice to have a little day out in the big smoke. Discussing inclusion in HE today!

If anyone was unable to attend my webinar on easing the transition of students from FE to HE from a library perspective, delivered for @uksg.bsky.social last Friday, the recording is now available here: attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/12...

Massive thanks to all who attended my webinar with @uksg.bsky.social earlier today. I was so pleased that it seemed to go across well and am really grateful to those who reached out with kind words afterwards. I think this could be the start of something and I'm excited to see where it can go

Today's the day! Still time to sign up to my webinar on the transition of students between FE and HE! Don't think I've ever been as equally nervous and excited about something work-related - it's a bunch of ideas that have been buzzing around my brain for months now so will be great to get it out!🤣

Comment in the chat at the end of an online session I've just delivered to nursing students: "I should have married a librarian instead of a nurse" I think that's a compliment! Not sure how to record it on our feedback form 🤣

A reminder that in a week's time, I'll be delivering this webinar for @uksg.bsky.social's FE series (although HE colleagues are welcome too). I'm really looking forward to it and hope it might incite some important conversations in how we approach the leap from college to uni from a library stance

The next episode in our free FE webinar series: "The next step: How FE and HE libraries can work together to improve the transition of students from one to the other" | dub.sh/8VbLLi4

I'm delighted to be hosting a session next month as part of @uksg.bsky.social Further Education Webinar series, looking at how FE and HE libraries can collaborate to improve the transition experience of students from one to the other. Find more info & sign up here: www.uksg.org/events/free-...

Make a band milder: Foo Appeasers

Recently I was delighted to be contacted by Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf & asked whether I'd be interested in sharing my thoughts on academic librarians use of social media. I, of course, jumped at the chance & the resulting interview is now live here: blog.degruyter.com/taking-libra...

Having attempted to digest all of the brilliant talks I attended at #LILAC24 I've attempted to summarise my 19 pages of notes into 3 key themes that I spotted across the sessions I attended. Thanks again to the LILAC team for a brilliant conference www.linkedin.com/pulse/though...

Home & unpacked after an amazing 3 days at #LILAC24 in Leeds! A huge thank you to the conference team for putting together an incredible event and programme of talks. I feel so enriched by all I heard. I've got pages & pages of notes to decipher but for now it's sleep time!

And so my #LILAC24 journey begins. Train number one heading towards the capital! Lovely to have some blue skies to accompany the journey, hopefully this will last for the whole of the conference (checks weather forecast and clutches to the brolly I thankfully put in my bag 🌧️🌂)

A little boost for this blog I wrote last week where I put down some of my thoughts on what I want to see from an AI research tool before I would even consider recommending it to my students: www.linkedin.com/pulse/im-jus... Would be really interested in your thoughts!

I've been pondering AI again, this time in relation to search tools and what I want from them in order to be comfortable in recommending them to students and colleagues. I'd love to hear your thoughts! www.linkedin.com/pulse/im-jus...

Staying up to watch the whole of #TheOscars seemed like a good idea last night. This morning as I prepare to deliver a referencing session to 1st year sport students on 4 hours sleep it seems a little foolhardy. Still, was worth it for Ryan Gosling's epic "I'm Just Ken" performance 😀

Really positive first meeting of the new ARLG committee earlier. Lots of good ideas and looking forward to helping get us back out there creating learning and networking opportunities for colleagues in academic and research libraries ☺️

Just booked my spot to attend #LILAC24 - had a wonderful time in Cambridge last year so can't wait to visit Leeds. Heading up the day before so any recommendations for things to do on a Sunday evening in Leeds greatly appreciated😊 Hope to see some of you there!

After feeling sorry for myself last Tuesday, having missed out on an opportunity - this Tuesday started much more brightly when I arrived at my desk to find this little fellow, a gift from one of my academics as thanks for some help with her research. Also pictured, today's awesome Xmas jumper!

Had some disappointing (but completely fair) work-adjacent news this afternoon but can't be down when I'm wearing a Xmas jumper this awesome!