How to catalogue your library

I found this in a review of a book called How to catalogue your library: “The subject may at first appear uninteresting, but the possessor of a small collection of books finds it advantageous to have a list of them, and is often perplexed as to the method to be employed.” From Northern Notes and [...]

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Nice comments

I was delighted to receive the following comment from a visitor, who said, It’s a great library. You can tell the children feel very comfortable here. Made my day.

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Child of the Library

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Library phones

My husband got a new Android phone for his birthday, and I was wondering if any libraries have moved towards having ‘tickets’ on phones? You klnow, scan your mobile, rather than a bit of plastic. Much more user and environmentally friendly surely? Seems a really obvious move, but there may be all sorts of problems [...]

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To weed or not to weed

Helped a colleague weed their stock today – it’s one of those necessary administrative jobs where it’s handy to have another person to share the tedium – and was struck by how our own interests dictated what was removed. She is very much an outdoors person, and instantly removed anything which showed outdated sportswear: at [...]

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Congratulations, Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness has won the Carnegie Award for Monsters of Men, or let’s be honest, for the complete Chaos Walking trilogy, and well deserved too (all three chapters have been shortlisted after all). However, I personally would like to thank Mr Ness for his outstanding defence of books, reading, libraries, and librarians. Here’s a snippet [...]

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Ready for next summer

Looking at the Freerice blog, one post jumped out at me, which said their local libraries held challenges for older children over the summer holidays and raising so many grains of rice on Freerice was one of them. I love this idea. I read voraciously, but it’s not the only thing I choose to spend [...]

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Roadshow

Had fun tonight blethering at a Curriculum for Excellence roadshow I’d been invited to take part in. Nobody was really interested in the wonderful investigations I had gathered evidence for, but then, I should have had more detail on the boards to explain what was going on in all those photos. On the other hand, [...]

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The shoemaker’s child

I’ve been asked to update the LRC’s page in the school handbook, a job that’s been due for a few years now. And each time, it falls to the bottom of the pile. There are too many other library management jobs that need done during non-contact times: writing press releases, web pages, blog entries, lesson plans [...]

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New blood II

I held a meeting with a trio of student teachers to discuss building an investigation. While the idea needs some more work, I gained a lot of insight into their current thinking and how new students might approach working in the library. One task was to find five good websites on da Vinci, but ironically [...]

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