Revised PPDP

Ok - the PDPP is basically revised. Just need to compare it to an edition at work as I think there might be two versions hanging around... To avoid this happening in the future I've posted on Google base here: PPDP.

It's basically the same document but I made the web development objective a bit less specific - I'm still not convinced a formal user survey is the way to go on this one as I don't think I'll get much response and there's a paradox involved. The reason I'm redeveloping the website is to get more information to people's desktops and to give me a tool to promote resources that people don't know about. If they don't know about the resources how can they have an opinion on how they should be promoted in the website?

The other main change is in the Archiving objective - made less formal so that rather than reading I'll be doing research (or having a chat with my new found tame archivist!).

Handover meeting

My last mentor meeting was a bit of a hand over as my current mentor is finishing work soon to go on maternity leave. It was great that she took me on as a mentee at such a busy time and I really appreciate it - considering that she didn't know me before we started the process, I think it shows a real dedication to developing the profession.

The handover meeting went well. It was quite reflective as it seemed like a good point to review where we've got to and what we have to do moving forwards. Basically, more forms (for someone who hates filling in forms I seem to attract them like iron filings to a magnet). I think my fear of forms (or any sort of admin) combined with a tendency to put off anything I don't like might be one of my biggest weaknesses so I'm going to make a big effort to tackle this and get myself organised...

I find blogging is a really good way to brainstorm and using a to-do tag helps me to take action rather than just record ideas - once the actions are complete the to-do tag can be removed...

Here's my list for the transfer process:

1) Send role profile, organisational chart and any other info about my setting to my new mentor.
2) Review my PDPP(PDDP? - ah, who cares!) and send it to my new mentor to sign and return.
3) Bundle the revised PDPP with the mentoring agreement and the completion form from my old mentor and whap it off to CILIP with a covering note.
4) Confirm that it has been received and understood at CILIP HQ (this last point is very important!).

Other actions that arose are to sort out a CDG course actually, why not do that now...

...ok, job's a good'n - there's a course in London on 13.05 so hopefully I'll get a place...