A Good Moment: Getting More Stuff Out There – Spike and The Student Magazines of Victoria University

One of the elements I really like in my position is seeing new resources go up on the web. Fifty years of Victoria University’s The Spike student magazine is now online. The University Library has digitised the complete run of The Spike Victoria College Review which ran continuously from 1902 – 1949, then in 1954, 1957 [...]

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Keep the customers satisfied

Some readers will have noted, if they follow my personal blog, a recent post where I discussed, in fairly unambiguous terms, the fact that I manage a mental illness. I don’t place this into a separate category to “work/life balance” – if such a thing is possible, except in terms of shifting tensions for us all. [...]

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Blogjune 3: Tag, you’re it!

Tag as in we didn’t have a blogjune tag until I just did it now and in actual fact I’m it because it’s my turn, which I’ve known since exactly yesterday thanks to a small email-related hiccup. That’s the joy of the digital age. We had a round of emails as to how we might [...]

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An Exit Plan: How To Leave it All Behind

With just over a week until I finish and head off to Victoria University I have been busy beavering away trying to clear my back-log, and to leave documentation on what I have been doing. It is time for the exit plan to take effect! As is often the way when you leave work, there [...]

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It Summer of Was The 09

Not quite the same as the summer of 69, but then I couldn’t really use that as I wasn’t even born then.  Tomorrow is the first day of summer, and I don’t know about you, but around here in public library land we are really starting to gear up for the school holidays and the [...]

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Back To The Real World

Well that was a busy week. I had a fabulous conference, meeting up with many colleagues, including several co-conspirators from here at The Room of Infinite Diligence. I also had several productive chats with the vendors, attended interesting and stimulating presentations, and attended the LIANZA AGM. The keynote speakers were thought provoking, I especially liked [...]

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