It has been some time since I have posted on this site. Why? Blame my new iPod Touch which has meant that I am now watching vodcasts instead of reading (sometimes) and checking out apps for use in school. You can read about this here, on another site I have set up to discuss ICTs. [...]
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A recent browse through the SLAV Bright Ideas site got me thinking once more about library home pages. They should be more than just a page of policies and opening hours, though these things have their place, too. If we are serious about organising information and helping people to find their way through a variety [...]
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We have a collection of teacher reference which is housed in the library itself, like most, I suspect. There are also small satellite collections out in the faculty areas and I am not too concerned about them (yet!). What worries me is the useful titles we have on hand which are not looked at as [...]
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Over at Skerricks, Ruth Buchanan has a regular series of posts called Good Ideas for School Libraries. These provide usually simple and always practical ideas that make you think, “I wish I had thought of that first!” I have often been inspired to try things out from these ideas although like most people, I might [...]
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Recently, Ruth at Skerricks posted about culling. This has been an ongoing mission of mine for the past 18 months. Not a week goes by that I do not put some books into a weeding pile for the staff to duly process. Many of the books get shipped off to some Pacific Island by the [...]
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I just returned from a Library 21 Workshop run by Education Queensland which was all very exciting. Lots of ideas about BER spending and plans but for us in a secondary library, that does not matter as much. Instead, we have to be content with thinking about ideas for refurbishment.
Many of the ideas presented [...]
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In a recent post, I mentioned that we were continually looking for ways to enhance our spaces in the library. One obvious solution has been to attack the reference section and intershelve some parts of it. Kids did not seem to be aware of it and had to be forced to use the World Books [...]
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