The past few years I have participated in an activity known as ‘Blog every day in June’. It’s a collection of (mostly) librarian types taking on the challenge to blog every day for a month. In 2013 I’m taking a year off this project, although I’m going to keenly follow the list of participants on…
Today, as I head off to a family party weekend in the country to celebrate a much loved aunt’s 60th birthday, I bring you a link to a wonderful post by the wonderful & thoughtful K.G. Schneider over at Free Range Librarian, about resetting priorities and examining what really matters. That is all. Except that…
I tweeted today that IT at MPOW are having some trouble figuring out why dropbox won’t install on my work PC. Some background is needed. As I’ve recently changed teams I have been the lucky recipient of a long overdue new computer and I’m one of a handful of staff testing the Windows 7 environment…
First, a rant warning! Bookworm was 18 yesterday. At her request, we travelled to Wollongong yesterday afternoon to watch the Matildas play New Zealand at the very beautifully located Win Stadium. The ocean is just over that hill on the far side of the ground. It was a scrappy game in parts, with Australia down…
Tonight I’m reflecting on the fact that it’s Bookworm’s 18th birthday tomorrow. After tonight I only have one ‘child’ left – the other two are adults, whether actually or technically. It’s gone so fast.
I’m a little bit obsessed with the stats page here on WordPress – I like to see how many folk are reading my blog (not very many, trust me) and what they are reading when they get here, but I REALLY like to see where they’ve come from to get here. Sometimes the search strings…
I’ve been involved in a review of some material in our Library & Information Science collection and in the process have come across some gems from the past. I’ve already highlighted one book that devoted a (short) chapter to the role of women in libraries. Today I bring you a short quote about the future…
Yesterday I finally presented back to MPOW on the Digital Humanities conference I went to in March. Because it’s mostly pictures, to make any sense of this presentation you’ll have to go look at it on Slideshare – I didn’t realise the embed code doesn’t bring across the notes. I’d like to thank my colleagues…
This month sees the retirement of Bishop Pat Power, Catholic Bishop in the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese. A long outspoken critic of the way the church deals with women, gays, divorcees and the idea of married priests, Pat is not exactly going quietly. Quite simply, he believes the current conservative attitude of the Church towards a large…
For the Friday photo challenge this week we have the theme of pets. I have plenty of pets so this one is quite achievable (I’m an intermittent contributor to say the least). One of the points of the photo challenge is that the pictures have to be taken in the week of the challenge –…
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