Zombie Invasions
Well, yesterday afternoon saw Auckland Libraries first Zombie invasion. This was part of a learning exercise with youth at the Tupu library and was an enormous amount of fun. For background on this event and why we did it, you can listen to my recent podcast with the brains behind the activity, Dr Matt [...]
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
It’s been an interesting few weeks on many levels, but not the least so because of a little phenomena that has sprung up at work around a teen orientated initiative. Nerf guns have invaded the library. Before a few weeks ago I had never actually seen a Nerf gun in real life, certainly had not [...]
The digital experience – in house
I am thinking at the moment about the challenge of providing interesting contextual experiences with digital technology in the library. A lot of time and effort goes into thought around the remote user experience these days due to the larger potential audience for online technology and the push by libraries to offer more and more [...]
Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians
Below is a link to a great article about songs about libraries and librarians. It caught my fancy, so I have decided to spread the word. I will be listening to these today…. http://flavorwire.com/64968/mixtape-10-best-songs-about-libraries-and-librarians
Eeeeeeee by gum
There is a lot of talk about e-books in the library world as he seek to find our place with this delivery medium, and build relationships of trust, respect and mutual advantage with publishers and aggregators. I am not going to talk in great detail in this blog post about e-books as that is well [...]
Information Online some thoughts based on keynotes
Well Information Online is over and I thought would do a brief blog post collecting together some of my thoughts based on the keynotes. For me the strength in attending a conference and the keynotes is the collective thought process they create, not the individual facts and figures they may give. As such, what follows [...]
Deary, deary me
My good friend Alana Ward tweeted a link this morning to an article in The Bookseller about Terry Deary’s comments on libraries. It’s a simplistic argument and so I thought it deserved at least a simplistic retort. Firstly though let’s not forget that Deary has written a very successful string of books (over 200), and he has [...]
Library Chat – Episode 2 – Now available
Episode 2 of Library Chat is now available. This episode we chat with Rivkah Sass the Library Director at the Sacramento Public Library. Rivkah is a very experienced public library manager and former Library Journal Librarian of the Year. She is enthusiastic, she has vision, she cares and wherever she goes, she sets about making the public [...]
The Lord of the Libraries
Here’s an interesting little a tale of action, adventure, and overdue books, parodying “The Lord of the Rings.” It was made by Chris Martin who since then had gone on to win an Emmy for his work on Heroes.
Comic Moments
So yesterday was Free Comic Book Day and Auckland Libraries helped celebrate this by setting up shop in two of Auckland’s finest comic stores and highlighting the collection of comics that we hold. Libraries and comic stores have a very symbiotic relationship if you think about it. Comic stores selling the latest stuff and libraries [...]
Tags: comics, graphic novels