05 December, 2012

Dundee cake - a Christmas post

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In my first concession to the currant (yes, pun intended) festive season I baked a nice fruitcake on the weekend. It was a recipe I cobbled ...
01 August, 2012

Teacher Librarians, Luddites in musty book museums

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At the risk of being repetitive... Teacher Librarian Advocacy is useless, there is no way anyone in government could possibly justify thr...
02 June, 2012

Wait, how many days in June?

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Did I suggest yesterday that I might try to blog EVERY day in June? Damn! Here it is, 15 minutes of the 2nd left, I'm about to go to b...
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01 June, 2012

Are we selling buggy whips?

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I am not in NSW these days, and when I was I wasn't a school librarian, so this post has the caveat that I possibly don't know what ...
23 April, 2012

You have exceeded the space for this text box. Some data will be lost.

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Or, so I was told by ACER (the Australian Council for Educational Research) when I tried to answer one of their surveys. How can you have an...
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12 April, 2012

Three blind mice, 1 blind society

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This question came to me over the interwebs... I had a question from one of my staff this morning, she was told (by a parent during storytim...
16 March, 2012

A teacher librarian social conversation

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OZTL was having a nice chat about Social Media the other day and, as I often find, there were some ...
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21 February, 2012

Are all Education faculties insane?

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In my academic librarian life I had a great relationship with the head of our Education faculty. He was insane (but in a good way, you know,...
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29 January, 2012

A new rambling diatribe (and a new reason to blog?)

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Where have I been? Well... I have been being a librarian, working out how a school library works and how I think I could make one work bett...
03 November, 2010

unsubscribing from OZTL_NET : a complex 37 part process?

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It must be weeks since I have offended anyone on the oztl_net list by trying to be funny in a format without subtlety or a sarcasm font, so ...
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06 September, 2010

My (first) library camp reflections

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OK, no preabmble, no preperation and no first draft. I am about to write out what I am thinking now...
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02 September, 2010

Day one - after lunch

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Having fun online, first conf for me where I have been twittering and on-site. But, now I am looking at all the stuff I am going to have to ...
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ALIA Access day one part one session one part one one one

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Woke up to slightly hazy views of the river feeling relaxed and happy. A couple of ciders last night followed by an early night meant I boun...
01 September, 2010

ALIA Access tour day

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The day dawned with the reminder of the tweetup the night before. A night which had ended mere hours earlier with the last of us (including ...
15 July, 2010

ALIA Access - filling fast

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I have just found out that the ALIA Access conference is getting close to capacity. All that wonderful 'elf n safety' (thanks Boris...