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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This linked site may be blocked at some locations but is worth checking out if you can. Shelfari has a series of features on authors and their bookshelves and this particular one is focussed on Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline, The Sandman and many other titles. If you ever want to feel envy about books, [...]
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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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There are many things which happen in school libraries which are not quite “proper” and which would probably offend some people. Many teacher-librarians develop house rules to accomodate their own local situations and here is one that we have adopted.
Many fiction titles which are part of a series can be easily lost in a large [...]
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We have had a name change. No longer are we the Library. We are now the Resource Centre. This should reflect our purpose within the school, providing a range of resources for students and staff, not just library books.
This begs the question, though, what’s in a name?
Does it really matter what the place is called? [...]
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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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