Definitely worth a look… And have a play with the ngram viewer. I used the terms ‘libraries’ and ‘librarians’. There was a peak in 1970s and a decline since then. Uh oh! Or does this just mean that those topics are now being written about in non-book formats?

  A is for the artists who make up rant’s top 5 B is for the Birkenstocks that keep Hoi’s feet alive C is for the conferences and industry gatherings D is for the dinner that Jo wished she didn’t have to cook E is for the evening out, the sun set, take a look [...]

On weekends our thoughts turn to food, hobbies and entertainment for the most part, but there are still a few serious posts in this lot. Kitchen Capers Spam Spam Spam (just kidding about this category) Timing Turkey and coriander balls in tomato sauce Turkey and coriander balls (Yep those meatballs go a long way) Crafty [...]

This week there will be no tag cloud, but there will be apologies to William Shakespeare… To meme, or not to meme: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler on rice to suffer the quirky things our borrowers do, Or to take arms against a gratuitous pet blog, And by travelling through the sense of [...]

I wanted to provide a different way for us to explore the posts from yesterday. This has not turned out as well as I’d hoped, but I thought another text-filled post might be hard to digest given the totally awesome response to this year’s challenge of blogging each day of June. So, here it is. [...]

This is great. The Auslan version of Feathers for Phoebe by Rod Clement – made available by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) for National Simultaneous Storytime 2011 (NSS).   The simultaneous bit starts at 11.00am AEST today.

Today is the first day of Library and Information Week in Australia and there are plenty of events and initiatives kicking off. ALIA has teamed up with the Wiggles to launch two community announcements to ‘make Australia a reading nation’. Here is one to share with parents of young children and babies.   image by [...]

It’s been a long time since we published a LINTerview, but last week Jo tweeted about a staff award her team had won, and one tweet led to another and to a blog post… Jo is Youth Outreach Librarian at Logan Library Service in Queensland.  Logan has 280,000 residents, 63 suburbs, 9  libraries spread across [...]

Been offline over the weekend? You may have missed the news on HarperCollins new licences for ebooks for libraries. This came to the attention of librarians via a message from Overdrive CEO Steve Potash, who did not actually mention the publisher’s name. HarperCollins confirmed it was the publisher in question. Two key things to note [...]

It’s Library Lovers’ Day. With ebook readers now taking off, what will this mean for the personal library? Many readers love their print collections and agonise over weeding them come time for moving house, or running out of storage space. With ebook purchases we are not ‘buying’ a book in the same sense of ‘sale’ [...]