this blog started as a travel blog almost a year ago when i went to india nepal and tibet, then it morphed into a library blog when i got back. for the next three weeks in on the road - most importantly im in the sun. so im taking a break from library related stuff.
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if anyone has any good holiday reading ideas then please let me know. by today if possible as i’m leaving tomorrow morning for my 19 day tour of europe and asia (yeah I know, half the world).
not to heavy, but not too light so i will finish it in a day. and not too interesting [...]
i got to work this morning at 7am to open up the library for a tradesperson…who didn’t f*&$ing turn up. 6 emails to three different people and two unreturned phone calls, i am still waiting for the assets department to ‘get back to me’ about something which I actually cant remember is now cause it was [...]
i wandered into dymocks yesterday to pick up some books, and i recognised it as soon as i spied it on the shelf of surf titles. THIS is the book that I have been trying to find for the past few months. Here’s the synopsis I got from the Allen and Unwin site (hint for [...]
we had a work experience kid the other day and had him crushing boxes and shredding stuff. i think he had a good time. we’ve got another work experience kid coming in this thursday and he’ll also be crushing boxes and shredding stuff. if we are extra busy he will be lucky in that he weill get to stick [...]
not some special library code. at my chinese class this evening I learnt how to talk about my job, hence the title: I am a librarian; I would like one bottle of red wine.
”one beer, please” is probably the most important phrase that any traveller should know (unless you’re in the middle east, where “mohammed rocks” [...]
this is my friend junko’s child. his name is ryohei. i havent seen him since he was born over 3 years ago, so i love getting these updates. does anyone have any good suggestions for books that children that age like to read? his mother speaks english fluently and is trying to teach him too.
i do have a life outside the library world. am leaving for vacation in france/japan at the end of this month. please submit requests for tabi socks.
ALIA, also known as the Australian Library and Information Association, also known as the cult you can’t leave once you sign up, is loved by some and despised by others who think it’s a useless clique. people usually start their careers in the former then end in the latter.
politics aside, as all i wanted to do [...]
i signed up two friends to the library the other day. amanda already has a bikram yoga book, which was put on hold for her from another library, waiting for her to pick up at her local branch. i am hoping that this will be just the start of their happy and long lasting relationships with the [...]
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