Telling and creating stories as part of #octshowntell has been the fun, creative and almost easy part. However, as @restructuregirl has pointed out, sharing our collective storytelling has turned out to be harder than we thought. YouTube groups were considered and then found to be no longer supported or available. Setting up a group within…
I was doing some updating of my ALIA PD points today and it startled me to see that I have pretty much already accumulated the points I need for the 2011 year (it’s a financial year thing). I only joined the scheme in April 2010, realising that all the reading and learning I had been…
I’ve only just caught up with this project… slow but accurate. Remembering that MPOW is a very small private higher education college where I do lots of things seemingly unrelated to librarianship (and I’m the Records Manager as well), here is a snapshot of yesterday: 9am: arrive, sort out the papers (put out today’s, put…
Tonight Miss 16 rang wanting a lesson in Harvard style referencing – over the phone no less. Even more than I love being a librarian, I love that I have a child who is ‘nerdy’ enough to be appreciative of the fact that I’m a librarian! It makes me feel, well, kinda cool. I have…
My browser of choice, both at work and at home is Google Chrome. It’s fast, light, has some nifty features and I LOVE that the URL address line is also the search box – that still thrills me every time I use it, it’s so sensible! Of course, I can’t use it for everything can…
I’m currently writing the Plagiarism and Referencing part of my online library modules for our Moodle here at MPOW. Delivering information literacy instruction entirely online is a challenge, I would far rather be in front of the students talking to and working with them, particularly bearing in mind the ESL status of our students. I…
OK, so there’s some challenge out there to blog every day in June. Seems like everyone’s doing it, so why not? Not sure if these few lines count as a blog post, but I’m busy writing a glossary of library terms for my moodle project so it will just have to do for today! Happy…
Today I’ve been focussing on marketing. A few weeks ago I developed a library user survey for the students using Survey Monkey. Due to a whole lot of technical issues we only managed to send the link out to our students today so I’ve yet to see how useful that is going to be. I…
I am heartened by the fact that other staff at MPOW seem to think that student patronage of the library has increased tenfold since it has been staffed full time (about 6 weeks now). I like to think that the fact that I am bombarding the students with messages, information, classes and emails is helping. …
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