Back from Adelaide and reunited with my iBook. Very inspired by the New Librarians’ Symposium over the weekend, and home with fresh ideas and new determination. Sydney will be hosting NLS3 in 2006 and I’ll be on the committee in some as-yet-unknown capacity. I met and caught up with many many wonderful members of our […]
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It feels like I’ve been home five minutes and I’ll be gone again. I’m heading to Adelaide on Thursday for the New Librarians’ Symposium and will be home on Monday. I’ll be back in the US and Canada during March and April to accompany my husband on a research scholarship. I’ll be in Orlando, West […]
2004: Compilation of posts from the old crashed page
Published by November 1st, 2004 in from the archives. 0 Comments1 November 2004
I’m back in Australia and managed to rack up 20137 United miles. Yeowch. My usual installment of “Fiona visits the world’s libraries” will be online soon.
My conference paper is available at ALIA’s site.
20 September 2004
Where in the world is Fiona? I’ll be overseas from the end of the ALIA conference until […]
I discovered today that my university has a small collection of ebooks, mostly computer books. Carrie Bickner’s Web design on a shoestring is available. Yipee! Should make good holiday reading. So nice to have all these books at hand (at least, until I graduate) but not so nice that every page requires a click and […]
2003: Compilation of posts from the old crashed page
Published by October 5th, 2003 in from the archives. 0 Comments9 October 2003
I’m back! Sorry for the extended break. I’ve been in New Zealand for the past two weeks, enjoying snow (from afar), thermal pools, beer, penguin watching, shopping and all the other stuff one does on holidays. Like check out libraries. My […]
So after going on and on about the New Librarian’s Symposium on this blog I suppose I should give you a rundown of how it actually went.I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many glasses in one room! har har. Interesting range of people, about 1/6th under 25 (about 190 went) the rest were mid […]
Wow. That’s all I can say. Last night I saw Brian Wilson on his Pet Sounds tour. Now I will freely admit that I’m not totally familiar with the Beach Boys catalogue. In fact, for years I hated them because they were that band that did Sloop John B that my crazy music teacher made […]
After months of dilly-dallying around the library activist issues, I’ve finally put my money where my mouth is and joined ALA, American Library Association (and SRRT, Social Responsibilities Round Table) and PLG, Progressive Librarians’ Guild.Will these things be much use to me as an Australian? I don’t know, but I’m hoping that I can contribute […]
Many apologies for the lack of updates to this site in recent days/weeks/months.
I have a pad of paper in my bag with some words on it that needs to become
a master’s thesis by the end of the year. 16000 words down, 14000 to go.
It’s going ok, sorta. So many little things to do here and […]
Why micropayments won’t solve a macroproblem… and why most of the Internet isn’t worth it anyway.
The Internet is a funny thing. On one hand, it is a wonderful tool for sharing information freely, anywhere anytime. On the other, it has only served to consolidate the power of multinationals who have made billions out of making […]
