I’m on holidays in China this week, and we visited the Shanghai Library located near the French Concession. Check out their online new titles display. The library is enormous and in addition to Chinese titles is a UN depository library, and a number of friendship collections. Definitely worth visiting in Shanghai.
Apart from the library, we have […]
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Back from London, Paris and Berlin. It was very nice to have a few weeks away from the computer, and unusually for me, I didn’t visit any libraries on this trip.
Well, that’s not entirely true, I did go to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in both Potsdamer Platz and in the former East but both required […]
Walt has two great essays in Cites and Insights this month, the first on conference speaking I’ve linked to in the wiki, and the second is all about achieving balance. Walt discusses the importance of vacations. I’m an enthusiastic supporter of vacation - I find that in the last few years that I have more motivation and […]
Totally off-topic: Two recent articles in the New York Times/International Herald Tribute have compared Sydney to Los Angeles.
Australia picks Sydney for Center on US Studies
36 Hours in Sydney
I tend to disagree with the comparison, except for the weather. The stranger comparison is that of Melbourne to San Francisco in the first article, when most tend to […]
RFID, YouTube, and penguins
Published by November 1st, 2006 in Library technology and Travel. 3 CommentsWhen I got back from Japan in July, I planned to write about how the JR East train system in Tokyo has a RFID system that I thought was reasonable and worked well. You can buy a rechargeable Suica (Super urban intelligent card) and swipe it as you enter and exit stations, but you can […]
Last weekend, we took the first of our ‘weekenders’ in Cabramatta -
“Cabramatta is less than an hour from central Sydney and is Australia’s most multicultural suburb. More than 75 per cent of Cabramatta’s residents were born overseas and 80 percent speak more than one language. Today, it is famous for capturing the colour and character […]
I arrived home this morning from Tokyo, my month off over and as always, immediately feel like I didn’t travel anywhere. Such is travel.
More about the trip and Tokyo when I stop feeling phantom turbulance.
But just one note for now: There is a Cafe du Monde in Ikebukuro. So completely random. Where they […]
Portugal, on how I came to travel there
Published by June 7th, 2006 in Library technology, Conferences, Travel, Research/Writing and Open Access. 1 CommentAs I mentioned last week, a couple of weeks ago I travelled to the city of Porto in Portugal to attend the 27th Annual IATUL conference. This trip was made possible as I was awarded the first Tony Evans Travel Grant for young librarians, and also thanks to the very generous support of my employer. […]
This morning I arrived home from a 9 day trip to Porto, Portugal. Regular readers would note that I didn’t mention this trip on the blog previously, more on how I came to travel to Porto later.
For now, photos are on my Flickr page.
Reading roundup
Published by March 7th, 2006 in General, Associations, Conferences, Travel, Research/Writing, Open Source and Australia. 4 CommentsA roundup of things I’ve been reading, working on, and paying attention to lately:
The first couple of months this year have been very busy with committee meeting after meeting for various groups and projects that I am a member of. We are (just!) under nine months away from NLS2006, and we’re coming up to the […]
