ADHD Librarian

The article (which I won't link to, as it is not the point) was actually about gun deaths in the US, but it was the title which struck m...

And, a closer inspection of my coursework tells me all my earlier fears have been realised. I am pointed towards the maths NAPLAN too… ...

Have I mentioned I am doing a Dip Ed? (or a Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning as it is now more grandiosely known). Well, I am. ...

An awful day in Australian Political Life has lead me to re-pen our national anthem. Australians all let us beware, For we are girt by s...

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

OZTL was having a nice chat about Social Media the other day and, as I often find, there were some nicely hidebound folk who were happy to s...

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,...

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...

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 ...

OK, no preabmble, no preperation and no first draft. I am about to write out what I am thinking now, a few days after the camp in a conf. Th...