Thing Seven: Professional Organisations & Face to Face Networking

Being a Mommy to a one year old little boy means I don't get much time to actually get out there and meet other professionals. Online networking is fantastic for me as I can do it after William has gone to bed and I have a few hours spare before going to bed myself. Saying that, I am still a member of both SLA (schools library association), and CILIP. I keep my eye out for any events that may be worth going to, but tend to be limited to day time events when I would normally be at work. Arranging child care for any other time would be a nightmare!

Thing Six: Online Networks (Part II)

LISNPN
I have signed up to LISNPN and had a look around. Everything looks great on here and I will be sure to dig down and do some serious reading and discussing on here in the future.

Librarians as Teachers Network
This is not something I'm going to join at the moment. Although I do teach library and information studies, I only teach roughly 6 lessons a fortnight, and only to 11-12 year olds. I hope to expand our library studies sessions in future and then I will return to the LATN to further my skills etc.

CILIP Communities
Having already been a member of CILIP for a few months I am ashamed to say I've never looked at the communities section. I have now created a small profile for myself and uploaded a profile picture (the same across all social media sites - my son and I with purple hair lol).

I will look into all of these more in the future. At the moment I think I'm suffering from social networking information overload!