Week 4: tasks 9 & 10: professional networks

Task 9: Explore online networks: LinkedIn, Library 2.0, LISNPN, CILIP communities. What advantages (or disadvantages) could the LRC get from creating their own network through Ning. Discuss on your blog.

Task 10: Sign up to national/regional and special interest groups. Share what attracted you to these groups on your blog.

I have been in LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com for several years, and been aware of the LIS New Professionals Network http://lisnpn.spruz.com since July 2009 when I attended a CILIP Career Development Group conference in London http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/careerdevelopment/cdg-benefits/newprofessionals/Pages/newprofessionalsconferencepapers.aspx. 

Library 2.0 http://www.library20.com is less familiar to me however.

The previous B&PC LRCs Manager asked me to look at Ning http://www.ning.com in 2011/12, especially http://psychfutures.ning.com and http://mathematics24x7.ning.com . Because people have to pay to use Ning, I didn't think it would be used much by the LRC or B&PC tutors. 
Teresa at LD LRC was appointed our Ning specialist in April 2012.

I edit a CILIP Communities blog for SE Hampshire & Wight http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cilip-hw/default.aspx, but this will be archived when the new CILIP website goes live later this year.

I am on the committee of, and web edit for, the 2 most local CILIP groups: SE Hants & Wight - I switched my CILIP region from SW to SE -, and ARLG (Academic and Research Libraries group) Southern. I am also a member of CILIP's Cataloguing & Indexing group. I have been a member of CILIP for 10 years, and achieved CILIP Chartership (MCLIP) in 2012.