Posted in Library, NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Professional Associations, Technology, Web 2.0 on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
The NLS4 Team is humming along and we have made alot of progress over the last few months, including:
Confirming the date and venue, December 5th and 6th 2008 at CQ Functions, in Melbourne, Victoria
An email subscription list to stay up to date
Launched the call for Abstracts, to get people thinking over their Christmas break
Announced the [...]
Posted in Technology on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I remember in the early ’80’s when I was at primary school, I predicted we would all have our own mobile phone, I think I drew a picture of a car and a phone in it. Now, I wonder if that was from watching too much Maxwell Smart with the shoe phone, and maybe Hollywood [...]
Posted in Library, Music, Technology on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
As I mentioned in the previous post, I saw Priscilla Queen of the Desert with groovy Librarians from the Ath Library, with Norma, Anna, Katy, Donna and Jill B. Donna also has a great posting about the musical.
Being a true Priscilla fan, I have seen the movie many times and have listened to the music [...]
Posted in Library, NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Podcasts, Technology, Web 2.0 on August 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well, I came home from work on Friday, after a bit of a fun night on Thursday, glad to be home so I could catch up on some sleep but also do some of my other extra curricular activities, only to hit the house and find the house pump blew a gasket !! (literally). So [...]
Posted in Intranet, Launch, Technology on June 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Okay, so all motions were set in place for the Intranet Launch this morning.
My email informing our 270 colleagues of the new intranet was sent at 6.30am (thanks to outlooks’ abilities to schedule when my email will be sent). With a login script ensuring everyones browser opened up with the new intranet address, and all [...]
Posted in Student Placements, Technology, Web 2.0 on June 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My RMIT student started today, and we eased her into life at Urbis. Katy showed her around the two floors, and introduced her to people on our own floor. Then she got her cataloguing, she’s right in there ! First day and picking up the tools.
This afternoon I had some time, in between the Intranet [...]
Posted in Intranet, Launch, Technology on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Gee, just when you think everything is going sooooo smoothly, with all the bells and whistles of the intranet redesign coming together, and then left of centre, an email is sent around our company today (Friday at 12pm) indicating that the launch of the new brand is not happening Monday, but Wednesday. Luckily my [...]
Posted in Intranet, Technology on June 14, 2007 | No Comments »
What do you do when you had planned to complete a task in 6 weeks time, only to be asked by the CEO to deliver the outcome in only 12 days!! Freak?
No, relish! Let’s get into it, let’s do it! And trust that the team will pull together to deliver the required product, under stress, [...]
Posted in Podcasts, Technology, Web 2.0 on June 6, 2007 | No Comments »
I would like to find ways, by using technology, to give my colleagues more information about the National Library Service at Urbis. Currently, we have offices in Melbourne (where I’m located - 90 staff, hardcopy library), Sydney (60), Brisbane (40 - hardcopy library), Perth (new office with 20 staff) and Dubai (2 staff). I give induction [...]
