Sometimes it takes a different perspective……
I work with our website and our catalogue and other online resources on a daily basis. It know them pretty much backwards and inside out – know where to find things, know what I can change and what I...
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VALA2014 – Concurrent Session 14 – Skilling time
I need more hands on training – reflections on creating self-directed learning by Con and Michael Wiebrands at Curtin University. They have been running training programs for staff for years. They are...
View ArticleBlog every day of June – Best thing about working in libraries – Fri 6 June
There are many wonderful things about working in libraries: the great jobs we have to do the wonderful people we do those jobs for – our library users the toys we get to play with the people we met the...
View ArticleBlog every day of June – Delicacy of online communications – Sun 8 June
We have an online form for people to contact us and people use it for a lot of things – asking questions about collections, querying their membership, info about events and so much more. The query...
View ArticleBlog every day of June – Teamwork – Sat 28 June
I worked at our biggest branch today. It was quite busy already, but made busier and more of a challenge by a couple of unexpected situations. First, we had to send one of our team members to another...
View ArticleALIA Biennial Conference Day 1
I was fortunate enough to attend and present at the first day of the ALIA Biennial Conference 2014 in Melbourne. Here are my notes from the sessions I attended (all good stuff). I will get my...
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Digital Literacy Seminar – Public Libraries Victoria Network (PLVN)
Here are my notes from the PLVN ICT Special Interest Group Digital Literacy Seminar, held in Melbourne on 3rd June 2015. Hugh Rundle – MC Victorian Public Libraries: Our Future, Our Skills Research...
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Leadership Learning Forum – State Library of Victoria – Marianne Broadbent
I was fortunate enough to attend the most recent of these annual events, with guest speaker Marianne Broadbent. She was a very thought provoking speaker. Hope you get as much out of my notes as I did...
View ArticleVALA 2016 – Day One – R. David Lankes, Lee Rainie and so much more
Always take away great thoughts and ideas from VALA – here’s what I got from Day 1. Librarianship: saving the world one community at a time – Dr R David Lankes Technology advances have made the world...
View ArticleVALA 2016 – Day Three – Nancy Proctor, Karen Lauritson and so much more
On Day Three I both chaired a session and presented in another, so there are less notes, but I hope you still find them helpful/useful. The museum as startup – Nancy Proctor (Baltimore Museum of Art)...
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