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CELIA WATERS
Biography:
Celia Waters is currently Information
Specialist at Dstl Farnborough (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory,
an agency of the MoD). She has spent the past two years setting
up a new workplace library to cater specifically for the needs of
the 700 site staff as well as organising a variety of training and
promotional events to support information literacy and internal
communication within the organization.
Prior to joining
Dstl Celia spent 3 years with DERA / QinetiQ and has also held professional
posts with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Civil Aviation Authority
and the BBC's Engineering Research Department.
Celia is the Meetings and Visits Co-ordinator for the
ADLG (Aerospace and Defence Librarians Group).
Title:
Acquiring and maintaining
specialist knowledge
Summary:
As part of the Specialisms and Enthusiasms
strand of Umbrella this talk will examine the various ways librarians
in specialist sectors can keep abreast of their field. This is more
than a matter of continuing personal development: the need to understand
your own subject area, to know where the best resources are, and
to be ahead of your users in providing such information is vital
for today's information professional.
At a time of decreasing budgets and pressures on staffing
this may seem a tall order, particularly for those in small specialist
libraries, but this talk will suggest ways of addressing it. It will
be run as an inter-active session, and attendees are asked to bring
along their own tips and the sources they find most useful. Although
the speakers' own subject areas are related to the defence sector
the session will look much more widely at that, concentrating on generic
resources rather than specific ones.
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