My Favourite Tipples from the Director of CILIP in Scotland
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By Catherine Kearney

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Social media and the latest technology solution for current awareness are top-of-mind for many of us. My Favourite Tipples are shared by Catherine Kearney, director of membership body CILIP in Scotland. She has selected resources which help her work smarter and keep her informed.

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I am director of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland, a registered charity affiliated to CILIP, the leading professional body for librarians and knowledge workers. As part of a team of two I'm responsible for ensuring the CILIP membership offer is delivered in Scotland and that the CILIPS charity complies with current legislation and good practice.

My selected resources are those that help me work smarter and keep me informed. The first two are time management tools:

• Boomerang: This is a tool which lets me schedule emails to be sent later, provides email reminders and lets me keep track of important messages by boomeranging them back to me close to the date they are needed

• TweetDeck: Tweetdeck is the social media dashboard I use. It enables me to keep up with several posting streams, to filter, schedule, search and create "collections" and to file and save useful posts from sources such as conferences and thought leaders 

• NetVibes: My current awareness resource of choice - I can't praise this highly enough for its breadth and depth of coverage. It serves, for me, as a one-stop-shop for keeping up to date with all that is going on in Scotland from economics to the arts and I can customise it to deliver alerts on particular interests

• CILIP: The website of my employing organisation is a regular go-to for access to professional reading resources which set my professional practice in context. Annual membership of my professional body gives me free access to a range of academic reading from ProQuest Library Science to the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

An article in FreePint I found particularly interesting:   

• "Digital Professionalism Skills for the Workforce" was a recent article in FreePint I found really fascinating, for its take on information skills and the linking of these to information governance, confidentiality issues and the use of images. 

For fun:   

• Tinned Tomatoes: In my spare time, I'm a keen vegetarian cook and I make a lot of use of this blog written by a Scottish library worker and which features vegetarian and vegan recipes. It's an excellent resource for ideas and menu planning!

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