libcampoz the national library unconference which kicked off in Perth and has been held in Adelaide and other States is making its way to Melbourne. I would encourage you to put the date in your calendars. I recently attended Libcampoz (Perth) and had a great time. Participating the unconference was invigorating.  Benefits include: flexibility (choose [...]

As I was walking to work today I was thinking about a metaphor to describe #blogjune. For me reading the blogs is like popping in to visit neighbours and catching up with friends. Many of the people blogging are part of my PLN (Personal learning network) and for those I haven’t met virtually or IRL (In Real [...]

It’s been two days since I returned from Information Online and I woke up from a dream about writing a blog post so here it is. My takeaways from the conference are: Break the rules @thelib – Sarah Houghton encouraged conference participants to be prepared to break some rules in order to deliver the services [...]

Louise Pieper from Gold Coast Public Libraries talks about why  abook club blog can build community and reduce social isolation. Public library users often resistant to more formal instruction in information literacy.  Customers don’t want to lose face or to be seen as ignorant or illiterate. They don’t want to be at school. Louse suggests that libraries: Be [...]

Day 1: ALIA Access Conference (Brisbane) Information literacy with Christine Bruce: Shift of focus from libraries to a much more global scale How do we make it relevant? How can we bring transformative power of information use to peoples lives? (Pat Breivik) Empowering! Experts on information literacy: Dr Lana W Jackman www.infolit.org – paradox don’t [...]

Friday again featured a number of memes.  Morgan asked 20 questions on day 20 so I thought I would ask you a few more: Who said don’t be afraid to change direction when she reflected on why she became a librarian? Who described her life according to They Might Be Giants and The Cure? Whose [...]

For many a long weekend awaits and 30 posts in 30 days is taking it’s toll. Keeping up with posting yourself plus reading and commenting on blogs is time-consuming albeit fascinating. So Friday is the day of the meme and photo. There are a number of memes doing the rounds: Book meme passed on by [...]

The challenge continues and more people have joined #blogeverydayofjune. Thirty at last count. This tweet pretty much sums up the feelings of those participating: bonitoclub RT @nomesd Does anyone else find that all they’re doing now is reading blogs? #blogeverydayofjune <– yes, but it’s great fun! I thought I would mention the following post – [...]

There will be no spoilers in this post. Last week I was privileged to get an opportunity to be an extra on the set of The Librarians. They are currently filming series 3. I spent a total of ten hours on set over two days to film two scenes. Being an extra is not the [...]