A blast from the past at bedtime
Tonight was a night of nostalgia during the boys’ bedtime. We read them two stories – one from the Noddy series, and another from the Mr Men series (Mr Bump, in case you were wondering). The Noddy...
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Patron driven acquisition for e-books – sorted. Thanks to Fi for the meme.
View ArticlePatrons in the driving seat
I mentioned in yesterday’s very brief post that my library has made a decision to go ahead with purchasing some e-books using a patron-driven acquisition (PDA) model. This model is a fairly recent...
View ArticleDone and dusted
I’ve just submitted the final assignment for the Health Librarianship Essentials course that I’ve been studying for the last couple of months. I’ve done OK on the first two, so hopefully I’ll do the...
View ArticleI’ve got nuthin’
Today is my “I can’t think of anything to write about so my post is about the fact that I won’t be doing a post” post. Tomorrow will be the last in my Friday series of posts looking at pop culture...
View ArticleBuffy the Vampire Slayer in the medical literature
As requested by Teresa, the subject for this week’s search for pop culture icons in the medical literature is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It appears that there is a gap in the literature on this topic,...
View ArticleGetting back into text correcting on Trove
I’ve mentioned previously that I’ve done some text correcting of the digitised newspapers on Trove. It’s been a year since I’ve done any though, and I got back into it with a modest 49 lines today. I...
View ArticleA night at the drive-in
We’ve just got home after going to the drive-in to see Minions. It was a bit chillier than when we saw The Lego Movie last year, but we were prepared with our parkas, beanies and blankets. Compared to...
View ArticleWhat I got out of #blogjune this year
For me the main theme that came out of this year’s #blogjune was the future of the Australian biblioblogosphere. There were some posts looking back to try and discover the “golden age” of library...
View ArticleSo what do the numbers say?
As usual, my final post for #blogjune is going to look at my blog stats for the past month to see if anyone’s actually read any of my posts. The data will come from a couple of sources – the stats...
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The hospital cat
The hospital where I work has its own resident cat. It occasionally makes an appearance in the outdoor area where I have lunch, and today it was there. Because we’re never sure if it’s going to be...
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Lego on a rainy Sunday
It was a pretty wet day here today, and the weather meant that it was a good day to stay inside. We all pottered around doing different things – my project was to finish off my Lego R2-D2 that has been...
View ArticleA week in the life of a medical librarian: day 1
This week’s posts are going to be a record of my working days. Nothing too detailed, just a summary of what I spent my time on at work. Hopefully they may prove interesting to those of you who have...
View ArticleA week in the life of a medical librarian: day 2
So, here’s the second day of my working week. Three hours of meetings One-and-a-half hours checking the links for our offsite access authentication Half an hour on emails One hour on a new literature...
View ArticleA week in the life of a medical librarian: day 3
Well, there wasn’t much variety in my day today. Most of it involved working with our electronic resources. Three-and-a-half hours on the front desk (which includes some of the following) Two hours on...
View ArticleA week in the life of a medical librarian: day 4
Another day where a lot of my time was spent working on our online resources: Three-and-a-half hours on the front desk (which includes some of the following) One hour providing EndNote training...
View ArticleA week in the life of a medical librarian: day 5
Well, we’ve made it to the end of the week. It was another mixed bag today: One-and-a-half hours working on my presentation One-and-a-half hours updating our e-book holdings One hour on email Two hours...
View ArticleTaking a trip down memory lane
Today marks 10 years since I arrived home after my first overseas holiday. It was a seven-week trip to the US (with two day-trips to Canada thrown in) with my sister. We had a great time visiting the...
View ArticleOriginal Aussie geocaches
Inspired by the discussion on show 566 of the Podcacher podcast about when and where the first of each type of geocache was placed, I decided to try and find this information out for Australian caches....
View ArticleOldest cache type in each state
As a follow-up to my previous post on the oldest currently active caches of each type in Australia, I’d thought I put together a list of the oldest caches of each type in each state and territory. I...
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