I’ve mainly been at work, or at least that’s what it feels like! Not only has it been the beginning of the new academic year, but we have also moved into the Shiny New Learning Centre. The SNLC (or SNeLC (sorry)), is lovely, but comes with its own problems, like an over-sensitive self-returns machine that [...]
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Things I’ve been doing
Posted in Libraries, Library of Doom, Music, singing, tagged chartership, CILIP, library, Messiah, pacemaker, work on October 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The invisible library
Posted in Books, Libraries, tagged art, Books, Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, gallery, INK Illustration, invisible library, library on July 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I went to an invisible library yesterday. It was very cool. We stumbled upon it as we were wondering around the Charing Cross Road area and went to look at the old-fashioned second hand bookshops in Cecil Court. The Invisible Library is (until the end of today) a “library filled with books that have been [...]
Rotas, Rubik’s cubes and Sudoku
Posted in Libraries, Library of Doom, tagged issue desk, library, rotas, Rubik's cube, Sudoku, work on October 2, 2008 | 8 Comments »
One of my current jobs is to create rotas for the staffing of the issue desk. You might not think this is an arduous task, but you would be wrong. Even when it is enough to write a rota which applies week after week for the entire academic year, the business of rota creation is fraught with difficulties. Of [...]
A small library in Melaka
Posted in Libraries, Malaysia & Singapore, Travels, tagged library, library rules, Malacca, Malaysia, Melaka on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We happened across this small public library (above) on our day trip to Melaka. It’s inside a shop house on Jonker Walk. In the library foyer we met a man who might have worked in the library or might just have been running the Buddhist bookstall that was in the foyer. We had a short chat with him about where [...]
A reading meme
Posted in Blogging, Books, Libraries, Memes, NaBloPoMo, tagged Books, Libraries, reading on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I stole this from Reed, who stole it from Charlotte…
1. Do you remember learning to read? How old were you?
No, I don’t remember learning to read, but then again I don’t remember much about my early childhood. I think I vaguely remember my mum reading stories to me at bedtime and I remember that at [...]
Library news
Posted in Librarianship, Libraries, Library of Doom on February 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A while ago (rather a long while ago now), Music Man mentioned that he liked to follow what was going on concerning the struggles of Reader Services at the Library of Doom, and I realised the other day that I haven’t written much about this for a while. So, here is a summary of the [...]
Library Lite
Posted in Libraries on November 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Fury as spin doctor tries to update image of book lenders”
The above is the subtitle for an article on page 20 of last Thursday’s edition of London Lite, which, as you are probably aware (at least if you live in England), is one of the new free London papers, following in the footsteps of the Metro.
The main title [...]
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