Blog June 2013 – Day 20 – The ‘menial’ tasks
In libraries, as in many jobs, there are menial tasks that need to be done. Jobs that seem trivial, are repetitive, need no special skill or qualifications, but need to be done. These types of jobs can...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 21 – Your reach
Besides this blog, I have been a presenter and have some other author credits to my name, as well as organising professional development events. I have had people tell me over the years, that through...
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Blog June 2013 – Day 22 – Unpleasant side of customer service
I love helping people find what they need. The ‘customer service’ side of librarianship is one of its great attractions for many people, me included. The problem is that not all ‘customer service’...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 23 – The cloud saved me…….
A lot of time – as I don’t have to rediscover my apps and re-enter contacts. As I posted back on the 13th June, I lost my phone (grinding teeth, distress and grief). But today I got my permanent...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 24 – Digital Rights Management (DRM)
We have just launched our first e-book collection and are dealing with Digital Rights Management (DRM) on a scale we have never had to before. It will be an interesting time for us as we have to deal...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 25 – Law-abiding librarians
Librarians are generally law-abiding. We can be great advocates of protecting copyright, reminding our users of their rights and responsibilities under the law. I think this is right and just, we need...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 26 – Lifelong Learning with each other
Tonight I gave a one hour seminar at one of our libraries – an introduction to an online service, which I have been using for years. The aim of the seminar was to give people some tips and tricks to...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 27 – Does your workspace reflect you and/or your job?
I was wandering back to my desk today and noticed how it really was a reflection of both my job and myself. The desk itself is very tidy and organised, like me, and the things that surrounded it were...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 28 – The perils of basic assistance
With the recent addition of e-books to our library offerings, we have created some simplified instructions on how to download an e-book. We have created similar such sheets many times before, to help...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 29 – Victorian Public Libraries 2030
As one of the Statewide Projects this financial year, the State Library of Victoria and Public Libraries Victoria Network collaborated to answer the question of what a public library is now and will be...
View ArticleBlog June 2013 – Day 30 – Challenges ahead
This is the last day of the Blog June 2013 and there were a few times I didn’t think I’d be able to post librarian-related content every day, but I managed. Fortunately we work in a profession which...
View ArticleSometimes it takes a different perspective……
I work with our website and our catalogue and other online resources on a daily basis. It know them pretty much backwards and inside out – know where to find things, know what I can change and what I...
View ArticlePresentation skills training
I am doing a presentation at the State Library of Victoria this week and in preparation for this, they offered me and a number of other speakers for this and other SLV events, the opportunity to attend...
View ArticleLeading lights – SLV – Friday 25th October 2013
Leading Lights was a seminar showcasing winners from the State Library of Victoria’s Ramsay and Reid Scholarships and from the Pierre Gorman Award. I was the first presenter, talking about my study...
View Article3d printing and additive manufacture
The Intellectual Property Institute of Australia organised this talk. I have an interest in 3D printing as part of the Maker Space culture which is developing in libraries and elsewhere and this event...
View ArticleNear Field Communication Smart Phones and Library RFID
I recently attended the FE User Conference – FE is an Australian company providing RFID to libraries. One of the speakers was Alan Butters who is an Australian RFID expert and was invited to the...
View ArticleElectro Magnetic Radiation Testing on RFID equipment at Port Phillip Library
EMR Testing at St Kilda Library – Alan Butters When Port Phillip Library was introducing RFID, there was a lot of staff concern regarding electro-magnetic radiation. Australia has standards for...
View ArticleVALA2014 – Concurrent Session 6 – Near Futures
USB Ubiquitous Superfast Broadband, the promises and perils of Australian libraries – Warren Cheetham – Townsville City Libraries (VALA Travel Scholar) Warren suggested using the hashtag #NBN for...
View ArticleVALA 2014 – Plenary 2 – Johann Bollen – Indiana University
Social media as an agent of socio-economic change – Johann Bollen – Indiana University. Our world is not just physical but also subsists on a virtual array. World internet usage in 2012 – 7 billion...
View ArticleVALA 2014 Plenary 3 – Gene Tan – National Library of Singapore – Singapore...
Got us to share favourite memories of Australia with each other to demonstrate the importance of memory. This is what the Singapore Memory Project is about. It started with a discussion of old...
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