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Library Camp 2012- Enlightening!
Following on from VALA, an unconference or Library Camp was organised at the University of Melbourne. Nearly 200 attendees attended from academic, school, public and special libraries. It was free for delegates, thanks to sponsorship from libraries across Australia. The … Continue reading
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5 Lessons from VALA 2012
Last week was a huge week on the Victorian library calendar with the biennial VALA 2012 conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Having been to this conference over a few years, it was good to see how the infrastructure has … Continue reading
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Being a professional
Walter was my Law for Librarians lecturer when I was ccompleting my library graduate diploma. Amongst teaching our class law reports, Hansards and Statutes, and the Copyright Act, he drummed into us that we were professionals. If we were providing … Continue reading
A blinking cursor
Hello June 30, I can’t believe #blogjune is over! I was going to title this post with ‘And now the end is here’ from the wonderful My Way, but that would indicate something else, such as I’ve gotten sick of … Continue reading
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I find stuff
Library and Information Week is a big deal in library land. Lots of activities, posters and bookmarks mark the event, including the National Simultaneous Storytime which was held today. The theme of Library and Information Week is ‘We find stuff’. … Continue reading
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“Libraries Hire Learners, not the Learned”*
The head librarian at MPOW is very keen on professional development. We have a learning and development committee (of which I’m a part) which conducts an annual survey of our training needs. The committee encourages using inhouse expertise to facilitate … Continue reading
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Discovery Channel
This weekend has been one of discoveries: Miss BG and I had a girl’s afternoon on Saturday, where we visited Lincraft for some yarn to make her a scarf and a cardigan. Thoroughly shopped out, we went to Cake, a … Continue reading
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Thanks for all the fish
I’m back at work after my two week break or me holiday, and glad to be back amongst my colleagues and undertaking a couple of reference inquiries for my clients. I’m listening to the future of libraries podcast on Radio … Continue reading
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We are worthy
Sue’s insightful post on blogging got people thinking in a very good way about the nature of what they blog about and why they blog. A couple of weeks ago I wrote the my blog is my soapbox. If there … Continue reading
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Can books talk?
I am counting down the days- 7 to go- until I hand in my last assignment for uni for this semester. I have a pile of books, a pile of projects and a list of shops I am keen to … Continue reading
