I must confess to experiencing some difficulty keeping up with all the posts from Friday – already?? you ask – and so if I miss anyone in this summary, please accept my apologies. It’s the usual case of human operator failure, rather than anything else. The range of topics was definitely impressive. We had posts [...]

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 [...]

Perhaps that should be pacing? #blogjune has officially started and from our experience last year we all know this is a marathon and not a sprint! So pace yourselves bloggers, keep some in your reserves for those busy days, those uninspiring days and those icy days where its too cold to type. This year looks [...]

With over 58 people blogging every day of the next 30 days the amount of posts to read and comment on is reaching staggering proportions.  Want an easy way to check them all out?  Or perhaps add them all to your blog reader at once? A Netvibes page has been created just for this purpose, [...]

Time sure flies when you’re having fun! It’s going to be June soon, and this morning one of the topics of conversation on Twitter was Blog Everyday of June. A group of us did this last year, and it must have made a positive impression on people, since many have opted to do it again [...]

Salem Press has announced the call for nominations for the 2011 Library Blog Awards. The Library Blog Awards aim “to recognise blogging excellence across the library spectrum.” This year’s vote will be ‘bigger & better” with more judges, more blog categories and a public vote. Judges include Andy Woodworth (Agnostic, Maybe) and Jessamyn West (Librarian.net), [...]

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 [...]

Yes, its that time of year again, time for Round 6 of Library Day in the Life. On Monday 24th January 2011: “Any one who works in a library can participate. You may share your day (or week) on your blog, Twitter, Flickr and/or YouTube (or any other way you choose. If you have none of [...]

I enjoyed watching everyone flex their bloggy muscles during June, but maybe we need another exercise to keep up the impetus. I’m being selfish here – I want to read more Australian library blog posts… And maybe some people who did not join in in June could test the waters? Bobbi Newman from the Librarian [...]

This post is just an account of day 30. It wasn’t intended to be a reflection on the whole June blogging challenge, but sometimes it does this anyway. The idea for this final round up post is three-fold: being comprehensive while maintaining simplicity and laziness. I’m posting a snippet, a single sentence, from every single [...]