It’s been quite a week. As some of you may know earlier this week I discovered that I had been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Paul Reynolds Scholarship ‘No Numpties Award’ for 2011. I’m very humbled to have been chosen to receive such an honour. After entering the GLAM sector in late 2007 the name Paul Reynolds soon came across my radar during discussions with fellow colleagues on such topics as ‘The Fitch’ [...]

Like many others I watched the last shuttle mission with a mixture of interest, disbelief, curiosity and sadness. “All good things must come to an end” goes the saying and over the last couple of weeks it became the NASA space shuttles turn to fall into that category. I’m fine with the idea of retiring an older technology and I’m even relatively at peace with the notion of private industry championing the space industries technological [...]

Recently I’ve found myself revisiting several musical scores from movies enjoyed over the last decade or so. A common thread linking all of the films has been the composer Jerry Goldsmith. Perhaps best known for his work on the Star Trek film franchise, Goldsmith had been working for many years prior as a composer for assorted television series and other film projects. If you look back over the last thirty years or so you would [...]

I’ve been reading Sally Pewhairangis’ posts over the last few weeks examining New Zealand public libraries use of social media. It’s been interesting to see which libraries are engaged in the use of these tools and to what extent. Hopefully for those libraries not currently active in this space it will be the wake up call required to start engaging with customers using these channels of communication. Like all things there’s a tipping point (Gladwell) [...]