If you’ve tried to check something in Wikipedia in the last hour or two, you’ll probably have seen a blacked out page linking to an explanation of its protest against SOPA – hundreds of other sites are doing similar. It might seem unfair to blackout all these sites worldwide (24 hours without lolcats!) for the [...]

It actually feels like it’s gone by quite quickly, but that may be because I’ve only contributed about weekly instead of daily!  Some people wrote 30 posts (or more!) and some wrote less, but I count anything done that wouldn’t have been done as a winner. So, a great many people spent the 30th reflecting [...]

The day-to-day NewGradLibrarian revives “A Day in the Life”.  Penny posts her own hectic day.  And Tania plans to scrapbook a Week in the Life. Professional professionals ACrystelle is planning an upcoming conference paper about her out-of-the-ordinary job. Sophie Mac reports on a Teaching and Learning Forum and JayGee reports on a webinar experience. Joy [...]

I wasn’t actually inspired by the A is for Apple meme (honest, guv!) but it makes for a lovely synchronicity. A is for Androids and apps for the iPad B is for Balwyn Library and blogrolls and more blog goodness C is for cheezels and caramello koalas D is for desks, despondency, and playing with [...]

The “Five Books Meme” continues, with Mal Booth, NewGradLibrarian, Macaronic, and Peta climbing aboard. Then the “Add exponentially to Deborah’s to-read list” theme continues with: Following flexnib’s suggestion of creating a “100 articles every librarian must read” list, Kathryn Greenhill starts the ball rolling with 40 articles plus a Zotero group where we can add [...]

Cunningly timed to give you plenty of weekend reading! Seven Things Katejf, FromMelbin, jobeaz, Teresa Bennett, a Public Librarian, Lutie, and Alethea all tackle the seven things meme. Help wanted Katejf asks about apps for iPad for research Kathryn Greenhill asks what people are doing well professionally/in their libraries Miss Sophie Mac asks for library-related [...]

What do you write when you’ve already written your introductory post?  Some took comfort in food:  Hoi takes on cabbage, KateJF wine and rice, Teresa Bennett blueberries and porridge, Lissy lemon and honey — and Kris Wehipeihana is ready for the good kai of Matariki.  (Mm, I might have to go and raid the dried [...]

At 4.36am on Saturday 4th September, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck near Christchurch, New Zealand. How it affected the libraries here is an overwhelmingly large topic, but Kathryn Greenhill kindly responded to my plea for some questions to prompt me in writing about it. 1. Do you remember where you were when the earthquake hit? [...]

In library-related news: Bun-toting Librarian answers “Why am I a librarian?” Connecting Librarian writes about work experience students in the library, and commenters add their own… well, experiences. Creative Circ shares their library’s plans to create a “library based on trust”. In the handy ‘miscellaneous’ category: Opinions from an OPL writes about organisational aps. Bonito [...]

I’ve been on leave, busy, or sick for most of June so far, so today was the first day I’ve had the chance to actually read all of the posts for any day, and I’m super impressed! Beyond the memes, Day 16 brought us videos: sallysetsforth posts a Simon’s Cat video, Connecting Librarian posts “Who [...]