As regular readers of my blog might have noticed I like to write a lot. BlogJune is my yearly burst of writing when I get most of it out of my system although that has been changing of late with my joining a writing club and also with my work on outlining a novel so I can try and actually do NaNoWriMo this year. I think I say that every year but ( Read more... )

Wool by Hugh Howey and the Future of Publishing.

Sorry this is so late tonight guys, I left my wallet at home when I went to Soccer training tonight so I had to double back afterwards to get some food which ended up just killing a lot more time than it should have.Wool by Hugh Howey is an interesting book on two levels, on one it is a decent enough ( Read more... )

There are a lot of things I find interesting about the culture of librarians, but most interesting I've found is our slight obsession with how we're perceived by the general public, we tend to think about how librarians are viewed and take it rather seriously ( Read more... )

Last week I looked at Prison Libraries and noticed that the ALIA guidelines included space requirements for various features and functions(such as librarians office and returns desk). It got me thinking about just what it is we need to put in a library and how much space should we be giving them. How should we prioritise a limited resource when ( Read more... )

It isn't a secret that the public as a whole is very much against the idea of book burning and book destruction. In fact this is a great sign of a society which values thinking and reading, the problem is that sometimes you kind of need to destroy a book or two in the course of running a library. Whether it is because we need space for more books ( Read more... )

Freshman.

I wrote this this afternoon, so forgiveness if it isn't very polished."So remind me again what I have to do ( Read more... )

Part 3

This is my one and probably only attempt to ever write something as a serial(one small part a week) so here is a link to Part 1 and Part 2.I was in the underground food court near my work, most everyone knows me there because I need to order using my tablet or write it down. I never really thought about it but when I change who I am I change ( Read more... )

I was hoping to have done some more work in the Toy Library before I had to write this but alas I couldn't because I'm sick right now. I was losing my voice last night and now it is completely gone. I don't know what I'm going to do for soccer on the weekend as I can't shout things and it is a team sport which makes it important to talk/communicate ( Read more... )

A friend of mine who lives in the US used to be a teacher and is now working as a prison guard, I asked him about his opinions on Prison libraries yesterday, knowing I was going to write this entry today, and he said that it is nice mainly because it gives prisoners something to do with themselves, that a different dorm goes into the library every ( Read more... )

Who are we ignoring as librarians? Are there people we aren't bothering to attract? Is it worth getting them as patrons?
The idea of a public library is that we serve a large audience comprised of the general public. University and school libraries serve students, legal, medical and other libraries all have their own specific targeted group of ( Read more... )