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I am very interested to see what other people are writing about. I was going to include something on copyright and unification and maybe another area. I am still undecided as to whether I will write a PDR or compile a portfolio. Although, at present I am making notes as if I will write a report. I was interested in Hilary's response that she didn't write a lot about professional awareness. In my job I have a limited number of training days / days I can take away from work for courses as I work according to the school year, so there is also limit to the conferences etc I could attend in my own time. So I am somewhat limited as to what I could include on an a personal experience front regarding awareness. I know Andrew summarised advise on the length of sections for a PDR, but shouldn't we write a few hundred words on wider professional awareness? I thought it would be equally important to demonstrate that we are aware of our professional surroundings, as it is to demonstrate that we are capable of doing our jobs; and putting theory into practice? - Is professional awareness normally a separate section or should we be referring to these issues in other relevant sections? I'm a little confused! Ruth Ruth Buckingham LRC Manager Wellington School Wellington Road Timperley Altrincham Cheshire WA15 7RH Tel: 0161 928 4157 -----Original Message----- From: Hilary Phillips [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 12 April 2002 11:17 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Wider professional developments Lesha Fossey wrote: > > 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