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Dear all
my current professional interests are mostly in the field of governance for good information management practices and I strongly believe that standards, cataloguing and information policies are key for advances in this field. So although I spend most of my time looking for work I am going on doing a little research about it.
Keep up with developments in the database market is essential.
Having organised a "thematic visit" to the National Gallery's Exhibition "Close Examination: Fakes, mistakes and discoveries" in my spare time, as a volunteer for the Ramblers Association, I am happy to share some links available at:
- http://www.brunellalongo.it/boyf/
The aim of the Web page is to document the idea of the "thematic visit" (which title was "Beware of your feet!" and for the occasion my Facebook account was suspended bytheway, boo!), along with summary of the contents and further resources (databases) to learn more about scientific approaches to the authentication of artworks.
The visit was conceived as an event for The Metropolitan Walkers' social program.
I am sure that many creative colleagues can find the idea useful to think about new ways in which electronic resources and information literacy may be promoted, thought and discovered - inside or outside the approaches of the subject-based curriculum. In fact, roles of "learning and research support" or "senior liaison librarian" are still available on the market (and I am applying for some of these too). But there is also an increased high skilled workforce of librarians and information specialists unemployed or early retired available for volunteering in this field.
My recommendation about volunteering in the information literacy field - according to findings from my Application for the Admission to the Chartered Register of CILIP, Document 2 - Career Options (see also my CPD-Wiki at http://brunellalongo.wikispaces.com/Career+options+and+lifelong+learning for more information) is this: if you like to or you are pressurised to volunteer in areas where you have been a high skilled professional, do it in style and enjoy the lifelong learning challenge yourself.
For this 1-single Web page format I have re-used, slightly modified, the XHTML and CSS code I wrote in 2005 (it was for a two days course about Web usability and accessibility, some documents still available but in italian at http://www.brunellalongo.it/awib/ ).
If you want to copy the code you can do it and quoting me under a license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0.
Comments or questions welcomed.
Brunella Longo
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