With a title like that I expect you may wonder what I am about to write. Put simply this brief post is about shock, the shock of having someone killed in your city. I feel lucky in that I live in a city like Dunedin where this is a reasonably rare thing and yet when it happens it’s a very sobering affair. The young women who lost her life so suddenly last night and her [...]

I just got back from Sydney and flew these guys international for the first time in several years – I don’t get out much sigh.. The meals were great, leg space has improved and I enjoyed their interactive touch screen services. All in all I’d give them a 7/10 for my air travel experiences this trip – well done Air NZ.

You can see it in the eyes of others, the tiredness is starting to set in at ALIA. That said day three started with a popular talk from a futurist offering 6-7 keys areas librarians and the IT related scene should consider for the future in regards to their service delivery. When I get home I will try and post some of these ideas up but a lack of easy access to the net via my [...]

Just saw a great presentation on the use of e-books at La Trobe University. A nursing cohort followed over 3-4 years embraced e-books but (and there’s always a but) their recall of use was heavily dependant upon their lecturers use of e-books in reading list material. The main problem was quite a few lecturers simply did not use e-books at all instead viewing them as a clunky somewhat unknown option for students. I enjoyed the speakers definition of [...]