{"id":291,"date":"2011-11-23T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2011\/11\/23\/thoughts-from-finland\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T11:34:37","slug":"thoughts-from-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2011\/11\/23\/thoughts-from-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/67\/files\/blogger\/-Sde4n8u4-OM\/Ts9-Fc9In4I\/AAAAAAAAAJU\/oBppD6LaxpY\/s1600\/chairs.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/67\/files\/blogger\/-Sde4n8u4-OM\/Ts9-Fc9In4I\/AAAAAAAAAJU\/oBppD6LaxpY\/s200\/chairs.JPG\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>After our second conference talk I enjoyed chatting to a couple of smaller groups of Finnish librarians. In the large conference they had been unwilling to ask many questions, but that wasn&#8217;t the case in the smaller groups! We talked about how to engage researchers in developing their IL and I mentioned the self assessment tool I use at Newcastle. This just encourages folks to reflect on their own abilities and to identify areas they want to develop. A cut down version of it is going to be published soon as a Vitae booklet called the Informed Researcher.<\/p>\n<p>Cafe in Finland provides blankets for customers brave enough to sit outside in November!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5051173628076948634-6214057600090772279?l=moirabent.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our second conference talk I enjoyed chatting to a couple of smaller groups of Finnish librarians. In the large conference they had been unwilling to ask many questions, but that wasn&#8217;t the case in the smaller groups! We talked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2011\/11\/23\/thoughts-from-finland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}