Welcome to my world.

It’s almost Christmas 2008. I finished my postgraduate MSc in Information and Library Management last month, I am starting a temporary library position next month, and I’m getting ready to (hopefully) pass my driving test (first time).

Welcome to my world! You find me also in the middle of a job hunt. I am calling it a win-win situation. I have this rather good offer of an academic library post set up, and I’m looking forward to that. Plus, I have several other interviews and applications in the pipeline.

I intend to use this blog as a bit of a scratch pad for reflection on the job hunt, but also to record thoughts of books I’m reading and research into information work.

Today I finished watching a two-part video on TCP/IP, the basic building blocks of Internet communication. What struck me was how similar IT becomes to library and information work above a certain level – once you move up to the level of applications and networks, a lot of it is about databases, constructing protocols and allocating, retreiving and using the right contact addesses and so forth. Librarians’ minds work in much the same way!