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December 2009

Social Libraries

2009, December 6 - 16:42 — PatParslow

 I have had reason to think about Libraries lately.  I am giving a talk to library staff at my university on Digital Identity, so I have been thinking through the whole 'library in a digital world' idea.

Researcher Development Framework

2009, December 11 - 21:57 — PatParslow

 The Careers Research and Advisory Centre announced a consultation on their new Researcher Development Framework back in early November (or thereabouts).  I have been meaning to take a closer look at it, as competency frameworks are part of the area we at OdinLab are interested in, and because, as a researcher, it is interesting to know where I stand in the field (near, I have to say, the muddy corner where the cattle tend to gather...)

Domain 1: Professional and intellectual attributes

2009, December 11 - 21:59 — PatParslow

 This comprises 3 subdomains.

1.1 Knowledge base

1.2 Cognitive skills

1.3 Creativity

Knowledge base

2009, December 11 - 23:15 — PatParslow

 Subject Knowledge

1 Has core knowledge of key concepts, issues and history of thought.

Knows of recent advances within own field and in related areas. (A3)

Working towards making an original contribution to knowledge.

I believe this is the case.  

Cognitive Skills

2009, December 11 - 23:40 — PatParslow

 Analysis

1 Critically analyses and evaluates own findings and those of others. (A5)

Validates datasets of others.

Creativity

2009, December 12 - 00:05 — PatParslow

 Inquiring mind

Power

2009, December 12 - 20:46 — PatParslow

 On the 30th November, an email was forwarded from our 'Clean and Green' team, which pointed to a rather shocking expenditure of £3,500 on electricity on Christmas Day last year.  I assume almost nobody was working on campus, that there weren't any major displays of Christmas lights, and that most lights were not left on.  

It occurred to me to think about how much power our "Thames Blue" IBM blade center (sic) consumes, and how much of that figure might relate to that, thanks to Karsten who mentioned the subject.

Individualism and society

2009, December 13 - 15:31 — PatParslow

 Liam Green-Hughes mentioned in a tweet that "I think though that society is nothing without individualism though, perhaps a controversial point :)" and it made me think it was about time I wrote something on the subject.

Christmas Day

2009, December 17 - 22:13 — Suzetta