Lesha Fossey wrote:
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> I still have this fear that I might be missing something major and end up
> looking completely stupid by not mentioning it at all! So, for my reassurance
> (and perhaps that of others on the list), what "wider professional developments"
> are people who are currently writing their PDRs discussing?
I'm a cataloguer, so I talked a little about the replacement of UKMARC
by MARC21 which I attended a meeting about. I also mentioned the impact
of the Disability Discrimination Act on libraries, and copyright
relating to electronic materials, but only in passing (I said I attended
workshops on these topics at the CoFHE conference, and that they were
very interesting!). I _think_ those were the only wider issues I
mentioned. And my PDR has just been accepted even though I didn't
waffle on about wider issues for pages. It probably helps to
demonstrate your interest in a wider issue if you can say that you've
been to a meeting or a seminar or something about it. Don't forget to
mention that you contribute to the discussion of wider professional
issues on e-mail discussion lists (it only takes a sentence)!
Hilary Phillips
Assistant Librarian (Cataloguing)
Oxford Brookes University Library
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