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WENDY BUCKLE
Biography:
Wendy Buckle is currently Assistant
Director Information Services at Cranfield University (Royal Military
College of Science). Working in a university which delivers postgraduate
courses to both military and civilian students she is interested
in both higher education issues and issues related specifically
to the defence sector. As such she is a committee member of the
CILIP sub-group ADLG: Aerospace and Defence Librarians Group. She
has a strong commitment to staff development, being a member of
the CILIP Chartership Board; and is a unit organiser for the MSc
in Information and Library Management, currently run by the University
of Bristol.
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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