Hello Librarians, I’m happy to announce the Discussion, Writing, Activity and Service Guide for my YA verse novel The Language Inside (Delacorte/Random House 2013). You can download this extensive Guide HERE. Created for classrooms, book…
Red Dot Longlist – give us your comments by end of day Monday
The Red Dot longlist spreadsheet was made public on Sep. 2 (see previous blog post) and several of us have added our comments. I had hoped to close the document…
GAFE: Google Apps for Education – @SAS – this Saturday & Sunday
I don’t know how many of you are going to the Google Apps conference this weekend at SAS (I think there’s still space, if you’re interested). I went last…
Follett Workshop @ UWCSEA East – Thu, Nov 21 & Fri, Nov 22
Jenna Emerson, Tim Ramsey, and Larry Gilbert are running a Follett Workshop in November at UWCSEA East. Click here to register or see more information. Day 1 – Destiny Training…
New page off this blog: Librarian Journals/Resources
At the top of this blog there’s a new page/tab: Librarian Journals/Resources If you click it, you’ll go to a public Google Spreadsheet which anyone can edit. Just like our…
Red Dot Longlist… discussions to lead us to our shortlist……
It’s that time of year… when we pool our ratings and comments on the Red Dot longlist in order to move towards the magic movement when we settle upon a…
The Charles Sturt Student Librarian Tour of Singapore Libraries
This week Judy O’Connell is in Singapore with 25 Charles Sturt University distance-learning students in librarianship for a week-long study visit. Most of them have come up from Australia, while…
A few photos from last week…. IFLA / ALA….
I took a few snaps with my phone last week. They’re not great photography, but they give you a sense of the evenings. First we had the Gale-Cengage reception, where…
“How was ALA?”
Quite a few of us attended the American Library Association (ALA) conference back at the end of June in Chicago. Kate Brundage (SAS) Ali Cuthbert (SAS) Rosa Shin-Gay (SAS) Nancy…
Thursday: Social event with ALA (American Library Association) executives attending IFLA
Again, emails were sent out on the Google Group list about this, but just in case you didn’t hear…. Below is the original invite. As you may be aware, the…