professional development
Growth and Ethics
I recently undertook a personal development practice and found out that two of my highest personal values is growth and ethics. It explains why I find people who refuse to learn, or grow extremely infuriating, and reinforced my stance on personal and professional ethics. So when a professional library group in my state decided to invite a speaker that (for me) violates both of those values I was deeply disappointed. More so, the response I got from my objection was met with: "Our belief is that
Low Bar
Recently I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Alice Procter entitled Muddling the Museum. It looked at ways museum collections and interactions were being decolonised by external groups, as well as critiquing the internal processes of these colonial institutions. The event was filmed and hopefully it will be available for others to view as Alice is an exceptional speaker and was able to provide a clear picture of the complicated and often messy nature of decolonisation. I came away from th
What I learned in 2016
This post is for the GLAM Blog Club set up by newCardigan. If you aren't in Melbourne check out CardiCast for some great GLAM talks. My professional ethics are something I will stand up for 2016 started off pretty rough for me professionally, over my December/January break some internal censorship of the library I was managing went down. I returned after the decision to remove items from the collection had been made, a decision I deeply opposed both in principle and application. Censorship i