{"id":300,"date":"2007-07-26T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T02:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/melbourne-visit\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T02:50:56","slug":"melbourne-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/melbourne-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great weekend in Melbourne. After a tech run through at the State Library on Friday, I met up with my friend Leanne who works there,  for chai and muffin at Mr Tulk, the coffee shop at SLV. I  spent half of Saturday curled up in bed with Harry Potter, trying to get over a cold.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday and Monday I spent in the comfortable, intellectually stimulating, friendly company of <a href=\"http:\/\/connectinglibrarian.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle McLean<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/librarybytes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helene Blowers<\/a>. Michelle was the perfect host &#8211; showing me around her hometown and introducing me to her kids and puppy who are all very sweet, cuddly and well behaved.  I also caught up with a number of great Victorian librarians. A huge chunk of conversation all weekend was about how we can encourage library staff to increase their skills with emerging technologies in a way that is relevant to 1) their current jobs and 2) the future they will need to tackle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1212\/882622868_aa9e33088e.jpg?v=0\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The presentation went well. I liked Helene&#8217;s style of wandering the audience wearing lapel mike. I liked the way Lynette showed a montage of the blog posts written by Yarra Plenty participants during her presentation. I enjoyed Michelle&#8217;s enthusiastic detailing of the innovative libraries she visited &#8211; and her ability to prevent them all blurring into one. I liked the outline of the considerations of the State Library of Victoria as they redesign their website &#8211; and their attempt to get just one spot for the user to go to access many different systems.  All presentations will be available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slv.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">State Library web site<\/a>. I had a tour of the building during a couple of other presentations &#8211; wow and wow! I need a couple of days to browse next time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1019\/881776769_7161a731c1.jpg?v=0\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p> I tried some liveblogging and hope to post Michelle&#8217;s talk in the next couple of weeks. But now, I&#8217;m back on the plane for another, even shorter, visit to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>You can see other photos from my weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sirexkat\/sets\/72157600974487618\/\" target=\"_blank\">State Libray of Victoria visit July 2007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great weekend in Melbourne. 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