Ken from You Tube - my favourite speech.

Here's my go at embedding a You Tube clip.

This speech always gives me goosebumps. Watch carefully and you'll see a very young Christian Bale!

Library of Alexandria

Two
Originally uploaded by (mO)²

. . . or this?

Eileann Donan Castle, Kintail

Eileann Donan Castle, Kintail
Originally uploaded by travelal

Could this be the winning design for our new Library?

It would save decorating on those Harry Potter trivia nights!

Your Wish Shall Be Granted . . .

After 13 years of working at this Library, coping with an old building, cramped space, bad lighting etc, we learned this morning that Council has approved a proposal for a large new Library!!!!

We still have a long way to go, but at least things are much more concrete now.

Meetings will now be held with staff to finalise guidelines for architectural plans.

What should a new Library have?

Busy Busy Busy

A cyclists conference has taken over our town!

There are hundreds of visitors from all over Australia and they all want internet access
asap.

I wish town councillors and managers could see our library this morning. Two packed storytelling sessions, not enough chairs for people to sit and read, internet booked out
til 6pm, family history section full. It warms the cockles of the heart.

All this in a 19th cent building totally unfit for the purposes we call it to fulfil day after day.

Sigh . . . . new library . . . .

Wikis cont

Forget what I was supposed to be doing!

Library applications for wikis -
HSC support site
Staff procedure manual
Customer book reviews

And I'm sure there's more.

I did notice on the Blogging Libraries wiki that hardly any of the blogs listed actually had people commenting regularly. Are they worth all the work of setting up and maintaining?

Week 5 - Wikis

Han Solo and Leia had three children? One of them went to the Dark Side?
Well, I'll be. . . . .
The things you can learn on a wiki.

I enjoyed the Princeton Book review wiki. Might have a go at a review.
I recently gave up about a quarter of the way through Ken Follett's
"World Without End". I finally couldn't take all the anachronistic language. It
vaguely annoyed me in "The Pillars of the Earth", but I must be more cranky these days.
I don't expect a book set in the 14th cent to be full of "Forsooth!" and "Prithee"s,
but I wince every time someone says something like "He made her feel really
sexy" or "I'll catch up with you later". I think use of language plays a big part
in creating and sustaining a believable historical world - don't you (whoever you
are!)?