Thing 15: Attending, presenting at and organising seminars, conferences and other events

This thing shows you that there are many ideas and ways of attending /organising face- to- face events that could help develop your professional. They are great ideas but as the thing mentioned, events cost money and time. Due to the financial difficulties we are all facing at the moment it is difficult to ask your employer to bear the cost of sending you to a conference or workshop. As result of that some institutions started to explore cheep ways of providing PD for their staff such as in house training or fund for local/regional events.

 

I’m a librarian who is currently does not have the money or the time to attend conferences or professional events?  I substitute them by relying more and more on e social networks. However enjoyable they are to use, great on answering questions and connecting you with peers across the globe, face the face events will still be the best way to pick up, up-date and share ideas. I have to admit, it has been quite some time since I attended an event. I have been busy enriching my experience since I finished my masters. I think it’s about time for me to start looking into this. What I would really like to attend is one of those big conferences where I can meet many librarians and information professionals to compensate for the years I have not been able to. But I have to fund it from my own money and use my own time.

I have no fear of speaking in public as I did this before although it wasn’t library related issue. Perhaps working overseas for quite some time and in different countries where you exposed to different cultures and people with different background and understanding I think has enable me to overcome the fears of speaking in public