Yorkshire and Humberside CILIP Member's Day Event

After months of planning, emails, dedication, frustration, a rail strike and determination the Yorkshire and Humberside Member's Day finally arrived. The event and the actual planning were extremely helpful and useful for my professional development and were an excellent opportunity for CDG to work in partnership with Yorkshire and Humberside Branch.

The actual event went very well and was positively received by those attending. Biddy Fisher attended to give an excellent and inspring keynote address. I discovered the world of Twitter, which was awash in the room, with people busily tapping away on either their I-PAD, I-Phone or Blackberry. At first I was struck by how rude this form of social networking is, but during the day the idea of typing a short message about your perception or highlight of the day was something I thought I'd quite enjoy.

The sessions throughout the day were excellent and provided those attending with food for thought. The choice of sessions included a professional networking sessions, user consultation session, active learning techniques session and finally a session which created a debate around the echo-chamber effect. For those who don't know about this effect. It is the idea that all our marketing and promotion is done to those we've already converted to the wisdom that libraries change lives and are worthwhile institutions. The session looked at successful methods of reaching those outside the effect such as non-users and how we can perseptions.

I thoroughly enjoyed the day and it left me on a professional high as Events Co-Ordinator. Over the course of the next few months I shall be taking up a new role with Yorkshire and Humberside Career Development Group as Chair.