Mosman Library have a great challenge happening for Library & Information Week. Check it out http://mosmanlibraryblogs.com/challenge/

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Learning 2.0

I have to get over feeling guilty at blogging and twittering in work time – it’s all part of learning new skills and we really do have management’s approval to spend 15 minutes a day at it 🙂

I am trying to figure out how to import some of the widgets from http://www.widgetbox.com into my blog page – so far no luck. Can anyone help me with this?

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When did the hyphen go out of fashion? My new job title is Coordinator Customer Service & Operations. It doesn’t look right. Shouldn’t it be Co-ordinator? And what about cooperate. That sounds like someone is half better but not quite recuperated yet…I can hear the doc saying: “In order to recuperate you have to cooperate” Seems wrong. Bring back the hyphen I say.

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my name

I  should point out that my political views are my own, and that my blog name comes from an encounter I had with a library patron who accused me of being left-wing because I refused his request to withdraw a book from our collection. He was quite taken aback when I told him that (IMHO) to accuse a librarian of being leftwing because s/he had a balanced collection was in fact a compliment.

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