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 [...]
Don’t leave town till you’ve seen the country
I spent the start of the week down in Queenstown attending a meeting of the Association of Public Library Managers. It was nice to come together as group to discuss the issues facing public libraries and where we need to be heading. It’s always great to reconnect with colleagues and spend some time thinking about [...]
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 [...]
Preserving our culture
This morning’s pondering comes as a result a result of a thought trail which started with this excellent article by Katie Fransen on why she was deleting her Goodreads account after the announcement of Amazon’s acquisition of the service. In essence she talks about her fear that the continual domination by Amazon of the market [...]
Easter
So I am sitting here at one of my local cafés drinking coffee on this Easter Friday morning. This long weekend feels very needed, yesterday was gruelling and work has been busy of late. Watching the sunrise drinking good coffee sitting in the cafe window is a pretty fine thing. This place is French and [...]
Some decent journalism please….
I will admit that I get a bit ranty pants from time to time about media, however in the last week there have been several things which have really annoyed me and just seem like lazy journalism. A lot of this revolves around the recent Papal elections. There seemed to be some surprise within that [...]
Random Kiwi Tweeters
So tonight I was surprised, amazed and a little embarrassed when the apparently very lovely Jonathon Hagger wrote a profile on me as a part of his RandomKiwiTweeters blog. I read it out loud to Anna Connell and she felt it was quite accurate. Accurate or not, it is very lovely, so I am sharing it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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