My blog's year in first lines ...

OK, it’s that time of the year again. Here is the first line of the first  post for each month, and – just for variation’s sake – the last line of the last post for each month ….oh except December…. but I’m sure you won’t mind…

JANUARY

• First line:  What do these people have in common?
• Last line: Thanks Corey.

FEBRUARY

• First line: I’m enjoying the Beyond the Hype Symposium so far.
• Last line: With just 10 in the course, I’m planning to tailor it specifically to whatever the participants want, so if you have registered, please feel free to contact me and tell me what you’d like covered.

MARCH

• First line: Chris Anderson wrote about the Long Tail in Wired magazine in 2004 , encapsulating in economic terms one of Ranganathan’s laws of library science “Every book its reader” .
• Last line:  Anyhow, here’s the slideshows.

APRIL

• First line: It’s 1973 and you’re not sure whether to make burnt orange curtains or sunshine yellow ones to go with your lime green kitchen benchtops.
• Last Line: REGISTRATION: Add your name to the wiki

MAY

• First Line: Steven Bell asked this question in a post to ACRLog on 4 May, What’s your signature statement ?
•  Last line:There is some strong language.

JUNE

• First line:Morgan Wilson started it with his discussion of how to reconcile one’s personal ethics with the system and practices that one supports professionally, Living with myself as a law firm librarian .
• Last line:Here’s an embed of it:

JULY

• First line:Registrations for the second WA Library Unconference are now open.
• Last line:I’m not going to tag anyone specifically, but most of the “day of a librarian” posts have been from the US, and I’d love to know how other librarians’ days are in Australia.

AUGUST

• First line:The last two Saturday nights in our household, we’ve output the laptop to our large TV screen and watched internet content.
• Last line:This presentation will show how the broader/narrower relationships in a thesaurus structure can be the basis for a classification scheme and hence support a site navigation structure.

SEPTEMBER

•  First line:It’s been September 1st here in Western Australia for 23 hours and I’ve been w.a.i.t.i.n.g all day for John Blyberg to wake up and climb down the chimney of libraryland and deliver an early Christmas present.
• Last line:See you on the flip-side.

OCTOBER

• First line:…. If you think what they are already doing is very good, tell them so…then ask them whether they would like to do it differently…
•  Last line:Mark Pesce is one of the keynote speakers for the New Librarians’ Symposium, coming up on 5 and 6  December -  to which I will *not* be going, but would dearly love to.

NOVEMBER

•  First line:I’m liveblogging the next three days of this conference using CoverItLive
• Last line:I only get to do this because I have a very supportive family and workplace – so a big thank you to them, particularly my husband Stewart and my boss, Margaret Jones.

DECEMBER

• First line:Around Australia, there will be rallies on Saturday 13 December 2008 against the government’s proposal to censor filter the internet.