I read this the other night. I could not put it down yet I have had trouble getting kids to borrow it from the new fiction stands. I have finally convinced someone to try it and I hope she likes it.
The book is very much like Alice in Wonderland, but with a sinister twist, almost [...]
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All I seem to have been reading lately are books about vampires! Last year, I forced myself through the Twilight series (Meyer), all in the name of duty!
Then I read a great horror/vampire/crime series whoich begins with 13 Bullets and is followed by 99 Coffins (Wellington). I really enjoyed those but more for the crime [...]
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Today, I was at an ICT conference in Maryborough but one of the highlights was listening to Sean Tierney discuss his current project/role in EQ, ie working with schools to develop elearning spaces in schools. One of his focus areas in the seminar was libraries, though, and it was totally inspiring.
A lot of what he [...]
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The challenges of finding room for things and promoting certain resources continues. A reorganisation of the newspapers and magazine area was the start and yesterday I moved the Big Books and changed the storage options for the mags.
I guess there was not much new to be done here but if it makes it a bit [...]
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I moved these two pieces of furniture around this morning. Why? To try and promote the papers, mainly. They have tended to be tucked around the corner out of the way and people probably didn’t even know they were there.
The location of the magazines continues to be a nightmare. While I like where they are, [...]
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We are after feedback about the range of magazines. There are some new titles, including Curl, Geare and Top Gear. Do students and staff like them? Will they read them?
We have had some teachers say that they will bring some of their classes down for looking at the mags so I will keep an eye [...]
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I have just finished Anthony Horowitz’ Raven’s Gate, the first book in a series and thoroughly enjoyable. 14 yo Matt Freeman is a street kid on the verge of being sent to prison when he is instead made to spend time in the countryside. Little does he know that he is about to have a [...]
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