Feb 11, 2018Lab Girl by Hope Jahren — a reviewAcclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. This is her first book and is told through the authors own stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a scientist father who encouraged hours of play in…Science2 min readScience2 min read
Jan 29, 2018What I have learned.GLAM Blog Club What a year 2017 was. A lot happened for many, I know, but a lot happened for me both personally and professionally. I moved house and got a new job early in 2017 which would have been enough really but have also had family pass away and…Learning6 min readLearning6 min read
Jan 1, 2018CollaborationGLAMBlogCub Working with another person or group to produce something — whatever that something might be — is pretty much what I think of as core library business. At least for public libraries anyway. Although it does sometimes feel like no-one knows this except librarians. And even they aren’t always…Libraries4 min readLibraries4 min read
Dec 22, 2017Balance, or Something like it.Balance, or Something like it. #GLAMBlogClub Ever since we announced Balance as the theme for November I have been thinking about this topic. I even started writing some notes a week into November. How organised! How on top of things! How never actually going to happen. Cause if there’s one…Work Life Balance4 min readWork Life Balance4 min read
Oct 30, 2017How I Ended Up Here … or Read My Knuckles.GLAM Blog Club October Like many other librarians I know, I have always loved books and reading. Once upon a time I worked at Borders Chadstone and boy, do I miss those amazing staff discounts! …Libraries7 min readLibraries7 min read
Oct 1, 2017Safe#GLAMBlogClub #September Once upon a time there was a group (a catalogue? a stack? a hush?) of librarians who used to work together but who had all gone their separate ways and hadn’t seen each other in a few years. They decided the time was ripe (they knew this because…Glamblogclub3 min readGlamblogclub3 min read
Sep 8, 2017Breath by Tim Winton — a reviewTim Winton is incredibly well-known and well-loved as an Australian writer and Breath is his 20th book and 8th novel. …Books2 min readBooks2 min read
Aug 30, 2017Shhhhh …#GLAMBlogClub #Silence #August Whilst the most well known definition of silence — or at least the one we learn first as children — may be regarded as ‘the absence of sound or noise’, I think that this is no longer an accurate description of silence in our times, or in…Libraries8 min readLibraries8 min read
Aug 12, 2017H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald — a reviewThis memoir is the story of how one woman deals with her grief, after her father passes away suddenly, by training a goshawk. It may sound strange at first, but once we learn that the author was obsessed with birds of prey as a child and has flown falcons over…Books3 min readBooks3 min read
Jul 31, 2017I am a Librarian, who are you?#Identity #GLAMBlogClub #July The July newCardigan CardiParty was held at the Immigration Museum and featured a discussion around Identity and Racism in Australia. It was a thoroughly interesting event, but the most interesting moment for me came early on, before the Identity exhibition tour, when our speaker (the wonderful Lauren…Libraries5 min readLibraries5 min read
