Content machine, jumping fish and conferences coming up...

CONTENT MACHINE

I am creating content, content, content for my work at the moment, so I am afraid I am not talking as much here. Technology for information management, and the history of libraries and what managers do in a public library are all ajumble in my head this week and being spat out into lecture notes and live lectures and screencasts and workshops.

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Yes – I am enjoying my job. Discussion in the second hour of a workshop yesterday was everything one hopes university can offer to students (and tutors). Times like this make it worthwhile.

JUMPING FISH

And I had an amazing sunset snorkle at Cottesloe Beach that night – with silhouettes of fish jumping over orange tinged water while the moon rose over the shore. I could put my head under the water and swim through metres and metres of tiny fish then look up and see them jumping above the water.

CONFERENCES

PLWA

I am looking forward to co-presenting (and hanging out with) John Blyberg and Cindi Trainor at the Public Libraries Western Australia Biennial conference on April 1 in Fremantle. They are both American Library Journal Movers and Shakers and have damn fine library brains. Registrations close tomorrow. I have attended the last two conferences and  although I was looking forward to seeing some of the speakers that I knew, I found that there were several “dark horse” speakers who I learned a lot from. Maybe I just chose sessions well, but it is one of the *very* few conferences where every session was enlightening and interesting.

We are doing an “interactive session” about the Darien Statements and why it is useful to think about what the core of librarianship is for you. What do we mean by “interactive session”? – we will all find out together on the day…

NEW LIBRARIANS’ SYMPOSIUM

I am taking it as a sign of faith in my ability to make people want to get out of bed that I am keynoting this conference in Perth on the last day. On a Sunday. First thing in the morning. The morning after the conference dinner.  18 September 2011. The excellent Kate Davis and Mal Booth will be speaking in the days before me – and David Lee King in the afternoon. All these things make me really, really, really eager to do a great job.

The title of my talk will be “The Hidden Rulebook: building bridges instead of hitting brick walls”.

NATIONAL LIBRARY CAMP

This event is Monday after New Librarians’ Symposium, 19 September 2011. Many people at NLS will be staying for this. It will be exciting and fun and we will all laugh and learn. I can promise that much. Much more? I do not know. Registrations open soon.

Off to churn, churn, churn …

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