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This week is week one - the first lectures of all my modules in the MA. Everything so far has been pretty interesting. The modules I'm taking this term cover management, libraries and society, information literacy and information retrieval, and the practicalities of the course itself. Each one's been a good mix of subjects I've got a genuine interest in, subjects I've got a background in and subjects where I feel I have a need to grow, so I'm neither feeling out of my depth nor like I'm covering old ground. I hope this persists!

The other big news is that I've won a place to go to the RLUK Conference (Research Libraries UK, formerly CURL) from the 22nd to the 24th of this month in Leeds. My department ran a competition for two sponsored places, and my essay was one of the winning two! The full details are available on the Department of Information Studies blog. My essay focused on my interest in the new Research Excellence Framework (which is to replace the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)) and the talks on digitisation I'll be able to attend, so the conference should be relevant to my background in academia and learning technologies. However, I'm generally keen to hear talks from my new Head of Department Sheila Corrall and Dame Lynne Brindley from the British Library. The RLUK consists of several research libraries, including Sheffield University, where I'm undertaking my MA, and Nottingham University, where I worked as a library assistant and undertook my PhD, so the conference feels like it's on my home turf, so to speak. I'll update later this month with all the news from Leeds.

Labels: conferences, MA, professional development, RLUK Conference