Our Library Service is looking at new job titles primarily because we are looking at unlinking ourselves from our Branch Librarian roles and looking at portfolios. When I started the traditional executive portfolios under the Chief Librarian were Adult Service, Youth Service and Reference Services. When I worked at Westminster Libraries in the UK it […]
https://lnkd.in/dSdHCV5X. Congratulations to Joseph Coelho Britain’s new children’s laureate. He will be looking at making poetry more accesible, shining a light on the background people working in children’s publishing and focussing on a ‘Library marathon’ to celebrate Britain’s libraries.
I am taking early retirement after five years at the same secondary college. I began at the school as the Library Manager but after an accident in 2018 I could only work three days a week as a librarian. A Teacher-Librarian, Marian Lees was appointed full time in the second term of 2019 to manage […]
Emeritus, which is the Latin past participle of the verb emereri, meaning “to serve out one’s term,” was originally used to describe soldiers who had completed their duty. Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person […]
Recently I posted about our Weblinks, our deadlinks and our effort to edit them during lockdown. After consideration we chose to bulk delete our weblinks from the catalogue as effectively as we could. We use Infinti as our Library management System. The best way we could do it was to search by subject in the […]
When I worked for SCIS one of my roles was to recieve a huge printout of deadlinks and go through them and update links. As I quickly learned many links particularly by Government and its agencies could be archived and moved. The dilemma that we had was that although we could update our records for […]
No Sugar Biography – Jack Davis English Works: Strangers in “our own country”, No Sugar by Dr Jennifer Minter Overland Literary Journal: No Sugar, no recognition It’s doubtful that the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Twenty would have imagined such an ongoing legacy for a play they commissioned in 1984. Thirty years have now passed […]
Stories from Growing up Asian in Australia Growing up Asian in Australia (Transcript of radio Interview with Alice Pung) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/bookshow/growing-up-asian-in-australia/3265578#transcript Representations of Belonging in Asian Australian Writing Alice Pung https://www.alicepung.net/ Growing up Asian in Australia Flash Cards Original Introduction to Growing up Asian in Australia https://mindmetaphors.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/8/13689850/growingupasianstudynotes.pdfhtt Quotes from Growing Up Asian In Australia. Insight text […]
Here is a review of from the Read,watch,play,participate Blog A few thoughts on The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-By-Shelf Guide http://readplayparticipate.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-few-thoughts-on-weeding-handbook.html
The novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins has sparked controversy. The story of an Mexican mother and her son fleeing a drug cartel and heading for the border to try and cross into the USA has been criticised for being ‘appropriative’and the writer criticised for ‘brownfacing’ The controversy is well explored in this article on […]