Posted in Library, Web 2.0 on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Seems like Kathryn had a blogging reflection day on Sunday as well, and she has noticed her posts are slowing down. As I have noticed many blogs are doing the same (see blog list in right hand column). I find Kathryn and others blog posts highly interesting and informative, I learn about new library or [...]
Posted in Intranet, Launch, Leadership, Library, NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Professional Associations, Professional Development, Web 2.0 on February 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Hi there happy readers / bloggers,
Happy New Year !! Yes, this is my first blog for 2008, and I feel terrible that it’s already February, but I have been contemplating the content for this blog this year. However, a few bloggers have commented that they love my blog - thanks for that - and I’ll [...]
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 Library, Web 2.0 on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Usual question ? What do you do? My answer, “I get paid to blog and search google.” It’s not really what I do all day, but some part of my work is submitting information to my library portal via a blog. BTW, we use wordpress.
Initially the blog started as a way for me to handle [...]
Posted in Professional Associations, Web 2.0 on October 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
At work we have been using a team wiki for close to two years and it’s proved to be a great workspace where information, passwords and procedures can be stored. I even co-wrote a conference paper with Iggy on our work wiki. It proved to be more effective than emailing each other a word document. [...]
Posted in NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Web 2.0 on August 23, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Okay, small observation, but I seem to like doing this.
All of the NLS4 Team is blogging, see in my blog roll on the right for the links
Aus Library Technician
Ballarat Library Chick
Dunn and Wilson
Librarian Idol
Thoughts and Reflections
Totally Trevor
and of course, moi, Intech the Verve
This wasn’t deliberate, but what a great way to consolidate our thoughts and [...]
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 Higher Education, Library, Podcasts, Student Placements, Web 2.0 on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
My student (Minzah) has been moving right along with her learning, and a fair bit of it is self driven as I like to see my students become independent in the workplace. As this is what it will be like for them when they hit the real world.
Minzah was given a task to create an [...]
Posted in Higher Education, Library, Podcasts, Student Placements, Web 2.0 on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I thought it would be a good idea if you heard from my student. She has also given permission for me to put her name on this site.
Here’s what she has to say about her placement so far…and, it’s her first blog…
Minzah Hussain, RMIT, 2nd year…
My first week is already over and it feels like [...]
Posted in Intranet, Web 2.0 on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
My Library Intranet Portal was a relatively static page until about a month ago. Currently I receive about 8 to 12 emails a day from various news sources, then staff need to send me an email and sign up to each individually and manually, and when staff leave, I then need to take them off [...]
