Blogjune #20: Random Romance Novel Title Generator

This probably isn’t worth a whole post, however perhaps this could be my one filler-post that I don’t think about a helluvalot prior to writing. Thank you to Sean for sharing this link on Twitter. Hooo it’s a gem people! A brilliant ‘resource’ found on the internets that helps the Mills and Boon writers come [...]

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#blogjune 19: Libraries and library fandom

Let’s start with a definition from a “Tomorrow People” fan: Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, freedom, etc.) is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of sympathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest.1 Soon after local government [...]

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Lifelong Learning – for Librarians

Anyone who knows me, knows one of my perennial soapboxes is that librarians need to stay current with changing technology trends, which probably most of the people who read or post to this blog do. However, there are a whole bunch of librarians who once employed do not receive any further technology training or professional development in an organised, methodical fashion. (You can [...]

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#BlogJune Day 13 – Slackery

I blame the date, work, life, in fact the universe for the fact that on Day13, when I am due to put forward another missive of editorial importance, I have nothing. Well actually that isn’t strictly true; I do indeed have something I just haven’t started it yet. So you will have to wait for [...]

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Blog every day of June : 12th June – A book review

Why helloo there! I am going to review a pretty little book I picked up the other day called, “What’s the Time, Mr Wolf?”.  Why?  Because I can!  And because I love little children’s books, they make me smile and get all excited. Lets start with a reference.  OR ‘Lets start at the very begiiiiinniing’ [...]

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#blogjune makeup post: The new Copyright law

I take some time to form opinions approaching final, so I was hesitant to comment when the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Act 2011  was brought in under urgency in April. I’ve had some interesting discussions about the act since that time, and read some mighty interesting things coming from other library industry professionals and groups. Myself, I’m [...]

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#blogjune Diligent Room: Foreshadowing upcoming copyright post

I’m posting this now so that I can maintain my contribution to the effort whilst deferring the actual work. Thus, TROID (an acronym I hate, by the way) gets to have its contributor posting on the correct day, but I get to feel I deliver something more effective. So tomorrow I shall communicate some of [...]

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Blog Everyday Day of June: June 10 – Managing The NZPLS By Michael

We can’t really pursue the idea of a New Zealand Public Library Service any further without discussing governance, management and financing.  I had thought of dealing with them separately but they are linked so heavily it is impossible to do so. Governance: Will this initiative be a standalone organisation? Could it be run from the [...]

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Academic publishers vs freedom of information

I read disturbing news in an article by Barbara Fister recently, that three academic publishers are in a lawsuit with Georgia State University over the right to share information.  Sage, Cambridge and Oxford University Press want their university clients to ‘ensure that their faculty, students, and staff will be “restrained from creating, reproducing, transmitting, selling, [...]

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#blogjune Day 7: Tech, libraries, elearning & pedagogy

It may come as no surprise to some readers that I have geek tendencies.  In this post, I wish to talk about tech, libraries, elearning and pedagogy*. What is elearning exactly? According to Wikipedia, *gasp* it “comprises all forms of electronically supported teaching and learning.  The information and communication systems, whether networked or not, serve [...]

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