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A New Professional: Reflections on the positive and negative impacts on my career to date

A New Professional: Reflections on the positive and negative impacts on my career to date. Eli Bastin 18 th June 2012 UHMLG Summer Residential. What do we mean by “impact”?. http://oed.com/view/Entry/92036?rskey=dTytzl&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid. Career.

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A New Professional: Reflections on the positive and negative impacts on my career to date

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  1. A New Professional: Reflections on the positive and negative impacts on my career to date Eli Bastin 18th June 2012 UHMLG Summer Residential

  2. What do we mean by “impact”? http://oed.com/view/Entry/92036?rskey=dTytzl&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid

  3. Career • Social Anthropology BA, Cambridge University • Evidence-Based Social Interventions MSc, Oxford University • Information Scientist • Information Specialist and Outreach Librarian • Information and Library Management MSc, Northumbria University • Knowledge Centre Manager and Outreach Librarian

  4. Positives • Jobs available – right time, right place

  5. Positives • Oxford

  6. Positives • Conferences: 2010 European Association of Health Information Librarians, Portugal. • Colleagues/mentor

  7. Positives • 23 Things projects • Old Road Campus • Literature searches, systematic reviews, getting published! • Bodleian Library…

  8. Negatives • Building site opposite our office/ library

  9. Negatives • “Current economic climate”

  10. Negatives • Communications problems at work = stress

  11. Solutions

  12. In Conclusion… • Turning negatives into positives. • Make an impact with CPD opportunities. • Communicate • Build good working relationships (over tea and scones?) with colleagues

  13. Eli Bastin Knowledge Centre Manager and Outreach Librarian Bodleian Health Care Libraries eli.bastin@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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