I watched, with interest, the discussion among school librarians in America after the spate of attacks on schools recently.  They were having to consider locking their libraries.  Obviously school libraries, and probably school buildings, are very different from the ones I’m used to here.  I guess I knew that, but had never considered it in these [...]

Childrens’ Book Week is almost upon us. I asked my teenagers what books they loved when they were really little. Out of the hundreds of books they read, looked at and listened to in their early years, these three struck a chord. (The links are to Librarything – if you haven’t tried that out, you [...]

I love the sense of community that blogs can create.  It’s brainstorming – internet style, really, with all the value that we get from the brainstorming process, as well as that personal (yuk hate the word) bonding.  I’ve found a corollary of this process… where the brainstorming happens in person and then the results are shared [...]