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Legally Blogged

So, what a great start: first post, and Blogger lost it, retaining only the first word. Brilliant.

Anyhoodle, I decided to set this blog up so I can post about things that interest me professionally, and keep a separation between my personal life (and blog), and my professional life (and blog). It does mean constantly having to switch between my two IDs for Blogger, but I'm a big girl, I can handle that!

I'm interested in the ways that IT can be integrated into my working life, and my regular reading of the blogs I've linked to has already helped me out: I've started myself a wiki to organise my Chartership materials (but this unfortunately means I'm pretty much ready to submit, so I'm now perfecting my procrastination techniques), I'm using Cite Bite quite a lot already, and I only read about it a week or so ago, my awareness of professional issues is much better....

This "series of tubes" is pretty exciting and fun stuff to be working with! (Lookee, I Cite Bited again!)
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lo-fi librarian said…
Another Law Librarian blogger! Welcome to the ranks.
16 June 2007 at 21:00
hypatia said…
Welcome indeed! It's great to see another UK library blogger join the ranks :)
18 June 2007 at 14:10
Unknown said…
Jennie, welcome to the wonderful world of Law Librarians blogging!
19 June 2007 at 12:33
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