I’m coming to Annual! I wasn’t sure if this trip was going to eventuate due to the events of the past year (most notably Katrina, of course, and its impact on host city New Orleans) but I will be attending my first ALA conference this June. I’m excited about it for a number of […]
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I’ve been tagged by Laura! Eek!
Jobs:
Music and news librarian
Academic librarian
Yes, I’ve only had two proper jobs. I went straight from school to undergrad to library school to work. I spent my teen years being rejected from Target, Miss Maud’s, Big W and other fine retail after-school jobs, so instead I spent my time volunteering with […]
Cat: Old librarians don’t die
Girl: They just hide in the stacks
Old Chestnuts, Cat and Girl
And something I spotted a little while back, Faker’s new video
clip “Hurricane” is set in the domed reading room at the State Library of Victoria.
I’ve been following stories about Google’s finances for a while now, including all those crazy predictions for a US$600 share price by end 2006 (The Economist, amongst others, Alternative coverage). Today, Google lost $20bn in value. It’s not so much the value that’s of interest, but the single-product business model Google seems to have […]
