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

F is for the friendship when opposites attract

G is for the great company and drinking chocolate hot

H is for the handlebars featured in Mal’s shot

I is for the iPhone app the Farmers market has

J is for the jamming folk rock duo, no not jazz

K is for the Kolding Bibliotek

L is for the Little Women memories

M is for the mutterings about the literacies

N is for the noisy places in which busking can occur

O is for the Olives for which JayGee has a cure

P is for the Peter, Lord Wimsey is his name

Q is for the question should I stand or should I go

R is for the rules to which staff discretion might say no!

S is for the Significance, degrees of which unknown

T is for the travelling when time has really flown

U is for the Urban conservation studies in Kew

V is for the Voice, Jenelle’s a fan of you

W is for the two Wes Moores by the grace of God they go

X is for the cross reference – would this cookbook help for Jo?

W is for the Webby’s revealing keepmeout

Y is for the Yesterday in which the posts were all let out

Z is for the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz a lazy day includes

I can’t be bothered making sure they all scan and rhyme,

Any guesses, gentle readers, which tune is in my head?

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 Work

• Learning to Crochet
• Stash Plans – Man Socks
• Stash plans – cowl neck scarf
• Friday Scrap Class
• Saturday Crop Day

Up Close and Personal

• Book Review : Winning after Losing by Stacey Halprin
• Diabetes and Me

Crowd Sourcing – your thoughts wanted

• A Pending Purchase
• Saying no away from work

Cultural Pursuits

• Film Review – Super 8
• Red Riders on Stage for the last time at OAF (Image)
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Bavarian State Library
• fear
• This Busker at Penn was Amazing (Image)

Concerning Books

• This is how two designers organise their bookshelves (Image)
• Stupid Stupid Stupid
• Have eReader will Travel

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. It kind of works. Have fun exploring …

I used Tagul (beta) to create the tag cloud. I also created a custom search engine in Google to search across the blogs taking part in the challenge. The search engine is linked into the tags, but the date range and indexing of posts is not quite what I was hoping for.

BTW – I’m not actually taking part in the challenge over at Inn0vate.

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.

Sometimes, its the simple messages that say the most.

A good example is this new video from the Finnish Library Association.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Benjamin Wheal from the South Australian Library & Information Network (SALIN) Committee wrote to tell us about their latest exploit.  He writes….

“We’re a grass-roots, unaffiliated group which creates networking and professional development opportunities for people in the Library sector in South Australia (especially for newer graduates). In 2010 we’re 10 years young. This year the SALIN Committee has chosen to celebrate our profession through production of the 2011 calendar "Zombies in the Library". The calendar covers such topics as the role of the Zombie in reference, the frustrations faced when the Undead hog the photocopier, and for cataloguers, poses the eternal question: 299.675 or 398.21?

The point behind creating the calendar was to develop professional skills by doing something different and creative … and we hope that Library folk will get a good laugh along the way. We consider the final product an achievement, an oddity, and something of interest to the profession.”

Proceeds will cover costs of production and after that will go to local charities. So if you love a little zombie-esque time management, this calendar is a must-have. Might also make a good Christmas gift for your quirky loved ones.

Can a cataloguer comment and remind us what those numbers are for? It’s been a long time since I catalogued with Dewey!

These reports were produced a little while ago, but they are worth the look.

The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) produces the IFLA World Report a biennial series that reports on the state of countries of the world relating to freedom of information, freedom of expression and other related issues.

So I checked out the 2010 report on Australia, fully expecting that I would know everything that was there.  Not so. The report was quite interesting and reported on numbers of libraries – broken down by type, libraries and the Internet – including filtering used and national policy towards it, legal issues, open access, social issues, ethics and more.

You can view individual or multiple country reports, using the Google Map to access them, either in full or customised form. You can also access the Analysis and Conclusions of the World Report 2010 and comment on the whole report.

Well worth a view and an interesting insight into libraries and information worldwide.

This event sneaked up on me this year and was almost over before I noticed. 18-24th of October.

“A global event, now in its 4th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.” — http://www.openaccessweek.org/

If you missed it too, here are just a few links I found of interest in the closing days.

Did your library celebrate?

n two days it will be 10/10/10 (10th of October 2010). ALIA is promoting a library top ten lists campaign and has invited anyone to create a list of top 10s. In this set of webslides I’m not sure these are THE top 10, but they are 10 top links to inspire a green library initiative. Find out about special interest groups and libraries that have already headed down the green path.

Enjoy!

I’m looking forward to seeing some other top 10 lists, and will be checking the #top10for2010 tag on Twitter over the next few days. Check out the ALIA Library Top 10s for 2010 blog for ideas and links.