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Overdrive – downloadable ebooks and audiobooks: now a part of our Networked School Community
I wrote this in March 2010. We have three Kindles, and will begin lending them out for a week at a time next term. We’ve decided to not invest in more of them and are awaiting the release of the … Continue reading
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Where does learning come from today?
Well, according to my son, it’s from the Internet. Here’s what he told me tonight about his day. “She gave us a tub of books, random choices off the shelves of books they thought we would like. My library teacher … Continue reading
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Creating a Library for the future
Well, that’s what we hope we’ve done. Created a Library for the future, that is. When we started planning Toorak College’s new Norman Carson Library, we knew this would be a space that had to meet the needs of a … Continue reading
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Reinventing our Library space – what did we do?
Tomorrow, I return to work. It’s an early start for me, and that’s because the new library that has been under construction is completed. It’s very exciting and something I have alluded to over the last year. Our library, and … Continue reading
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Reinvention – stage one
I feel like I’ve hardly been here of late. There have been plenty of things to write about, but, quite honestly, no time to write about any of them. I’ve been pretty time poor because we’ve been in the process … Continue reading
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Mindspot – a library of the future happening now
Watch this. We can learn from this example. Ask our users what they need. Simple idea really. You can find more information about the project here. It’s a German site so you’ll need to find a way to translate the page. … Continue reading
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The Robert Pattinson effect
Cover of Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition) An interesting thing happened on the way to building readership of our school library blog. One of our staff wrote a post about Robert Pattinson. (You know him, he plays Edward in this film that’s … Continue reading
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The future of libraries, continued….
I’m finding it harder and harder to get to my RSS feeds in my Google Reader. I’ve no doubt this is in large part due to Twitter consumption. The temptation is always there to just check in to see what’s … Continue reading
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