Library Week 2006

I was busy with Australian Library Week as I judged a photo competion, went to the Library Technicians Dinner. This was at Karawa, the CDU training restaurant,you can see why I enjoyed the meal!.(Great food and prices)



then the next night a tour of the new Palmerston library
and a panel session all of which I was asked to be the
official photographer for and then today a morning tea
where I announced the winner of the photo competition.
This is a photo from last nights panel and tour.
It's myself with Elizabeth from our Library Studies Unit,
and Leigh from my team.

Dave, (my son) and I visited a couple of universities whilst we were in Singapore around Easter, Nanyang Technological University and also the National University of Singapore.
This is just one of the libraries at NUS where I gave a talk to the Library Association of Singapore on Google Scholar.

They have a chill out or "Perk Point" area with food and drinks available as well as zones where mobile phone users can duck into!

This seat is tucked into the stacks and I liked the quote, I guess that's what librarianship is all about!

Evidenced Based Librarianship and ALIA TopEnd

I was involved in organsing the ALIA TopEnd Symposium and also attended a dinner and a workshop on Evidenced Based Librarianship with British authority Andew Booth. This is Andrew enjoying himself at the workshop. It was a great professional development opportunity.

I asked Valmai Hankel, wine writer and former Rare Book Librarian to speak at the ALIA TopEnd dinner. It was a great event and she was a delightfull success.

Di Thompson a long time Adelaide library colleague came to the conference as the keynote speaker. She was well received. Here she is with my new team member Pauline Ferguson at the Darwin Sailing Club.

I had to arrange to get Powerpoint presentations for the TopEnd event and load them, fun!

Jose Mendes

Jose Mendes has spent the last month living with me and undertaking training here at Charles Darwin University, He is from the Library at the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosae (UNTL) (National University of East Timor.)
See this site for more information about his university and library.
http://www.untl.labor.net.au
Their library need lots of help....
Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosae


This was on a visit to the Northern Territory Library.
With myself, Robin Hempel, Reference Librarian, Northern Territory Library and Faridah Antwertinger from CDU Library

Jose has a farewell lunch at which he was formally presented with a laptop computer for the library. We enjoyed a good lunch and some speeches.

We thanked each other, I have learnt a lot about East Timor and now want to visit one day.

ALIA Top End garden party

This was at the ALIA Top End garden party in the Chinese Gardens at the Casuarina campus of the Charles Darwin University.

A new role in Health Librarianship

I have taken on a new role in addition to that of Liaison and Information Literacy Coordinator.
I now have responsibility to liaise with:
School of Health Sciences
School of Social and Policy Research
Menzies School of Health Research
Centre for Remote Health
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health

I have long had an interest in the health sector and I am currently building web pages to support our nursing courses.

One of the best Information Literacy related blogs created by librarian Michael Lorenzen who discusses library user education, library instruction, librarianship, information literacy, and search engines. Also covers other observations on life in general.
The Information Literacy Land of Confusion

A good comment on blogs and Information literacy

Weblogg-ed

A very useful blog from Sheila Webber in the UK.Sheila has visited Australia, and her Weblog has a lot of international comment and good links.
Information Literacy Weblog

Talking of Wiki's how about a Kiwi Wiki ?

My NZ friend Richard Elliott sent this link only this morning!
"Alan Levine from the Maricopa Community Colleges Group in Phoenix
Arizona is currently a visiting educator at Unitec.

Alan has covered Wikis (how about a kiwiki?) e-portfolios ,
learning objects, the web as a learning tool and hybrid courses so far.
The site will grow as the workshops are completed."

So, go to:
Kiwi Wiki

Content, Not Containers

My colleague here at Charles Darwin University, Anthony mentioned this report from OCLC, 2004 Information Trends: Content, Not Containers.
Content,Not Containers

Amongst other things its discussing the'growing phenomenon of content being created, published and shared outside the traditional structure of the library.' It contains a very useful glossary. I now know what a 'wiki" is!!!!
Take a look at the report

Another new title

This is a new title, Journal of eLiteracy (JeLit). JeLit is an online open-access peer reviewed journal focusing on eLiteracy and related issues. Volume 1, issue 1 can be accessed at
Journal of eLiteracy

Just in another e-zine

Check it out. I have not had a long look at it, but see what you think.
EX LIBRIS

Some great e-journals

Here are a few of e-journals I recommend
"firstmonday
"D-Lib Magazine"
"Ariadne"

This is where I work

This is a photo looking at the library building at the Casuarina campus of the Charles Darwin University where I work in the Northern Territory, Australia

This is my professional interests blog.

For a more personal "blog" go to topend.blogspot.com

Here I hope to point to things I like, sites and sights I have seen and perhaps the odd sigh, from things I have seen or wished I was seeing!