{"id":340,"date":"2007-10-10T05:04:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/library-surrealness-on-the-radio\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T05:04:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T21:04:02","slug":"library-surrealness-on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/library-surrealness-on-the-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Library surrealness on the radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in Brisbane to give a talk at QUT<\/a> today. Surrealness happened via the radio in the taxi on the way from the airport.<\/p>\n

First surreal thing – Nick Earls<\/a>, a novelist who wrote Bachelor Kisses<\/a> , is the radio announcer. It’s like switching on to find Tim Winton<\/a> doing the night shift in Perth.<\/p>\n

Second surreal thing – radio quiz is happening and contestant is a librarian. At QUT. Where I’m speaking the next day. Instead of launching straight into the questions, Nick says something like “Librarians aren’t just about shelving books anymore, are they?” – giving Julie-Anne a two minute spot on statewide radio to talk about what we do now. She went for it – mentioning Social networking and Web 2.0 and reference support via VoIP. Hooray for Julie-Anne.<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to love this town<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I met Julanne at the unconference this afternoon. And that’s how you spell her name \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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