It’s a Blog Eat Blog World Out There

I have been thinking about blogs recently. I have been thinking about them rather a lot. In fact you could probably say I have been thinking about them too much. My editor in chief will probably be grateful when I’m not thinking so much about blogs! Currently I write for two blogs, this one and [...]

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The greying of the profession

I was at a meeting the other day when I heard a phrase I hadn’t heard in a long time.  “The greying of the profession.”  It used to be bandied around a lot when I was attending some of my first LIANZA meetings 15 years ago. The phrase was used to refer to librarians getting older then [...]

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Shared Research Repository Project

Digital institutional repositories are close to my heart and open access repositories more so. Good old Wikipedia tells us that a repository is “an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating — in digital form — the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository) Many people use the Web these days to [...]

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A librarian? Must be nice to read all day…

So how many times have you had that comment when you announce your professional affiliation?  We all know that librarianship is so. much. more. But having said that, I will boldly state that yes, I do actually like to read.  I read a lot.  I do like books in all kinds of formats.  I just [...]

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Libraries and Facebook

I recently read a blog entry about libraries’ use of social networking sites and the mention of Facebook.  I then realised that I had only recently become a “fan” of one library’s Facebook page.  This made me want to search out more to see what was out there and to see how libraries were using [...]

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The Best form of Defence Is Offence

  When reading Saturdays Dominion Post I came across a two page spread about the National Library. I am always happy to see large pieces on the National Library, or libraries full stop, in the media, especially when it is positive coverage!  After reading I wondered if someone in the top floor had been reading [...]

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What I Read: Library Matters

Interspersed with my normal posting, I am going to bring to you a series of reviews of library related websites, and library blogs that I read, with this being the first. Library Matters is a blog by Joann Ransom from the Horowhenua Library Trust. Her posts are entertaining and very informative I only wish she [...]

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Computer Error Alerts

A bit of humour this week, thanks to the Warrior Librarian. Computer Error Alerts for Library OPACs I quite like the “Budget Exhausted” message and the “Sticky Keyboard Error”. I’m sure we could come up with more.  Any suggestions?

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Lost in Space Or Down the Rabbit Hole!

Every Sunday night now I have what is developing into a little ritual. I hop onto the computer after tea, skip around the websites I like to read, power up Word, write my post for The Room Of Infinite Diligence and then schedule it to appear first thing Monday morning. Usually during the previous week [...]

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Happy Library Week

During this Library Week I’ve been updating my Library’s online customers on the things that they can find in the library.  The theme “Escape, explore, discover” has lent itself to a wide variety of promotional opportunities.  I’ve tweeted about books and databases and free internet and renewals and the events calendar and then crossposted that [...]

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