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Catching The Reading Wave

admin — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:19:05 +0000

Catching The Reading Wave – Cronulla. Four schools in the Shire participated in the Mob Flash Dance. Woolooware, Bundeena, Kurnell and Cronulla South Public School

No Books? No Libraries?

admin — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:13:19 +0000

In 2007, COBURG SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, VIC. was a new school with dispersed book collections, virtually no non-fiction and lots of computers. (See article in Access, Nov 2007 by Jennifer Sargeant, Director of Information Resources). The principal had said there would eventually be a library “of sorts.” Is there now?

Also in 2007, MORDIALLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL, MELBOURNE, closed its library entirely, disposing of its existing collection “so that the space could be used for a VCE centre, with the remaining books split amongst each year level. No catalogue, no borrowing system.” Each year since, they had to buy duplicate copies of books for access. No TL then. What’s happening now? => http://bit.ly/LYtWX1

Research libraries in the 21st century

admin — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:07:35 +0000

Although the purpose of academic and research library collections remains the same – to support the creation and dissemination of new knowledge – the nature of collections is moving away from ‘local’ to collaborative and multi-institutional. New forms of scholarship are transforming user expectations for broad, barrier free collection discovery and access. Libraries must transform their approaches to meet new user demands.

The Association of Research Libraries’ (ARL) briefing paper for research library leaders sets out to draw a ‘big picture’ of the future of research library collections. =>http://bit.ly/L9uEvu

This week’s books

admin — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:27:13 +0000

Punchlines by Oliver Phommavanh

As long as you can make a girl laugh, she’ll go for you, right?
From the talented and funny author of Thai-riffic! And Con-nerd comes another LOL story about surviving your teens.

Slide:ology – The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte

But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology fills that void.

Maralinga, the Anangu Story by Christobel Mattingley
‘Maralinga – the Anangu Story is our story. We have told it for our children, our grandchildren and their children. We have told it for you.’
In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, describe what happened in the Maralinga Tjarutja lands of South Australia before the bombs and after.>br>

The Motivated Mind: A Complete Guide to Personal Change by Jason Gracia

As you already know, it’s not that we don’t know what to do – the answers to what we need to do are all around us. The problem is getting ourselves to follow through and do it.

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

National Year of Reading Love to Read App

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:06:34 +0000

There’s even an app for that!

Love2Read is a free app designed celebrate the National Year of Reading 2012, by giving you easy access to tools that will help you participate – and to just get reading!

The app allows you to:

- View Upcoming Events
- Locate your nearest library (GPS enabled!)
- Share a picture of a library to us via the app so we can add it to the library profile
- Free reads to download to your phone (PDF)
- Program Information for NYR 2012

The National Year of Reading 2012 is a collaborative project joining public libraries, government, community groups, media and commercial partners, and of course the public. As well as creating specific new campaigns for the National Year of Reading, we’ll be using our joint efforts to bring together and showcase the wonderful projects and organisations across Australia which already exist to promote reading and literacy. => http://bit.ly/LhVyTW

Job for the Day – Culinary Librarian

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:00:38 +0000

She loved food, but she didn’t love the kitchen (at least not as a workplace), so Kimberly married her love of food with another passion: books. Enter the unique opportunity to be a culinary librarian. It certainly doesn’t sound obvious, but when the position opened up at the French Culinary Institute, Kimberly snatched it up. If you’re hungry for a new recipe, you can visit her in the stacks. => http://bit.ly/JYE0dI

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

admin — Thu, 31 May 2012 22:54:21 +0000

I just caught up with the shortlist for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awrds. Is there anything you are sure will win/should win?

Fiction

All That I Am, Anna Funder
Sarah Thornhill, Kate Grenville
Foal’s Bread, Gillian Mears
Autumn Laing, Alex Miller
Forecast: Turbulence, Janette Turner Hospital

Poetry

Ashes in the Air, Ali Alizadeh
Interferon Psalms, Luke Davies
Armour, John Kinsella
Southern Barbarians, John Mateer
New and Selected Poems, Gig Ryan

Non-fiction

A Short History of Christianity, Geoffrey Blainey
Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles, A J Brown
Kinglake-350, Adrian Hyland
When Horse Became Saw, Anthony Macris
An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, Mark McKenna

Prize for Australian History

1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, James Boyce
The Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage
Breaking the Sheep’s Back, Charles Massy
Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation, Russell McGregor
Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us, Renegade Films Australia Pty Ltd

Young adult fiction

A Straight Line to My Heart, Bill Condon
Being Here, Barry Jonsberg
Pan’s Whisper, Sue Lawson
When We Were Two, Robert Newton
Alaska, Sue Saliba

Children’s fiction

Evangeline, The Wish Keeper’s Helper, Maggie Alderson
The Jewel Fish of Karnak, Graeme Base
Father’s Day, Anne Brooksbank
Come Down, Cat!, written by Sonya Hartnett and illustrated by Lucia Masciullo
Goodnight, Mice!, written by Frances Watts and illustrated by Judy Watson

More information here => http://bit.ly/L4oVwP

A Literary world

admin — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:22:22 +0000

From Pinterest

Myth – With Everything Becoming Available Electronically, We Will No Longer Need Librarians

admin — Wed, 30 May 2012 22:20:20 +0000

There have been many articles and blog posts lately debating the future of libraries. It is hard to imagine a school without one of these learning centers (where else would faculty meetings, testing, and baby showers take place?), but this post focuses on busting the myth that librarians will become obsolete.

=>http://bit.ly/JUjgUo

… bringing technology and great people together … for reading

admin — Wed, 30 May 2012 06:48:28 +0000

What a great idea!!

“There are thousands of Indigenous kids whose reading ability is a long way behind their non-Indigenous peers. The Indigenous Project brings technology and great people together to change that and get Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids reading. It targets students aged 10 to 15 who want to read but don’t have access to books. We loan them a Kindle e-reader and monitor their progress over time. If they significantly improve their reading frequency they get to keep the Kindle.” http://bit.ly/Nbfr0R