HLG: Monday
Today, the morning of the first day of the HLG conference in Eastbourne, we heard a keynote speech by Ian Snowley, CILIP's President-elect. Ian's presentation, entitled I am a medical librarian and including a clip fromMLA's video of the same name, discussion stressed how professions and professional values are changing, citing a recent Demos report Production Values: Futures for professionalism. Everyone is now a professional and the relationship between professions and government, the media and society generally are different and more critical. We can continue our core tasks, setting standards and qualifications, advocacy and CPD. Above all rank-and-file CILIP members need to become advocates for the profession.
Professor Mike Pringle of Nottingham University gave a succinct and at times humorous description of progress to date on the electronic patient record, in a session chaired by Veronica Fraser.
The venue is charming, the exhibition spectacular and the posters impressive. After coffee there was a choice of interactive sessions. I went to the anatomy of e-learning, led by two staff from the FOLIO programme, Lynda Ayiku and Anthea Sutton, who described the development of FOLIO courses. They then got us to divide into groups and design a e-learning programme, using different pedagogical techniques. This was a slightly artificial exercise, as we had no curriculum content, not any learning objectives, which normally would have influenced our choice of methods. Nevertheless it was an interesting insight into electronic course design.
I'm afraid I missed the sessions after lunch, as I had to prepare some papers for the HLG Annual General Meeting.
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I wish we could have made it this year! The HLG meeting in Belfast was a real highlight of my year, and I was looking forward to Eastbourne. Alas, the rest of my travel schedule made it impossible.
Posted by: T Scott | July 11, 2006 at 12:51 PM
Never mind, Scott, but thanks for the comment. We missed you.
Posted by: Tom | July 13, 2006 at 04:17 PM
"Everyone is now a professional"
A few years back I decided this word had lost its meaning, at least in the U.S.A. I was having my car repaired and picked up a magazine in the lounge, titled something like "Professional muffler repairman."
Posted by: Norma | September 03, 2006 at 09:08 PM