According to today's Brisbane Times 'More than $40,000 worth of library books and DVDs have been discovered in a home south of Brisbane...'

When you think about the amount of effort that must have gone into this...and all for stuff that the libraries would have let them have for free anyway as long as they gave it back when they were done. Why do it? Were they denied an animal sticker or mistreated by a librarian at a young age and now have the compulsive desire to subvert the system that allowed them to be chastised for running in the stacks? Do they perhaps see libraries as a communist plot designed to undermine profits and suppress the free market? Or perhaps they were a brand of anarchist that believes in the pursuit of knowledge and Hollywood blockbusters without a single renewal restriction. I've been thinking about this a lot and I feel it's time for me to extend my library criminal nabbing skills (of the sherlock holmes observational type - "That guy hanging around the dvds looks shifty, let's set up a sting") into a more socio-political direction with an emphasis on the psychological factors that motivate library crime. Now I'm just waiting for the QLD police department's call.
Link: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/12/30/1198949661394.html?s_rid=theage:top5

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diarypic3, originally uploaded by Tish Bee.

Patterns In Patterns

Patterns In Patterns, originally uploaded by Tish Bee.

So I thought maybe I should put some of my own artwork up for once.

#23 Learning 2.0 - The Retrospective

Well this is my last official 'learning 2.0' post since I seem to have run out of discovery exercises. Who'd have thought? There were a lot of things in learning 2.0 that I didn't know about or that I knew of but had never really explored to any extent. Some of it was great and some of the Web 2.0 applications I wont use again, but at least I have been and I have seen so if a borrower needs help I'll know what they're talking about, even if my advice is that there are easier ways to achieve similar things with different applications. There were parts of the course where the instructions could have been much clearer and a few of the tasks were achieved with trial and error more than anything else, which I understand has been quite frustrating for people who really don't have the time to get something wrong sixteen times before they get it right. On the other hand, having gotten everything wrong sixteen times already myself if anyone needs help just give me a yell and I'll be more than happy to help if I can (that doesn't mean that I will be able to help, but I can always try* - at the very least I can tell you sixteen ways not to do it.)


I really liked You Tube and Flickr and I'm glad I got a chance to take a really good look around Library Thing particularly since it's now been incorporated into our catalogue. What's more I never realised how much of this we're already doing and it really does open up a whole new direction in marketing ourselves and providing new and innovative service outside of the traditional sphere of libraries.


Overall learning 2.0 has been both fun and frustrating. I'm really pleased people liked my blog - and I didn't have to use threats or bribery at all! Well, hardly at all anyway. I also know that I had a distinct advantage over others who didn't have the same amount of time to devote to it, or booker prize nominated books to avoid reading. Most of all I think I've enjoyed seeing everyone else do their own thing, coming up with a blog that is distinctly theirs out of a set of uniform tasks. And with that my thoughts are duly summarised.


Peace out.

Titian

* Disclaimer - If your question is about bloglines and rss please refer to my previously stated dislike and complete uselessness with these. I'll still try and help, but it may come with a language warning. Just so you know.

Another Retro Thing

This one is for Greg.

Well as you guys probably know already I won a prize for my blog which was very nice of the Learning 2.0 people. Sadly it was a pair of non-adjustable headphones that are supposed to wrap around the back of your neck but actually don't fit my head and kind of smoosh your ears in a way that ears probably shouldn't be smooshed. Someone clearly has a very strange idea of what shape a normal head is. Either that or my head is an irregular size/shape, also quite possible. I can't help wondering if this is the universe getting back at me for not actually listening to all of the instructional podcasts quite as thoroughly as I was meant to - by giving me a prize that prevents me from listening to them at all. Especially since I won an 'encouragement' award (I swear I'm not making that up.) So Maryka, you were right. Apparently it isn't possible to top the fab headphones that Shaun gave us for this project. It wasn't a complete loss though, I did get a nifty certificate (available for viewing on request- no touching!) and my friend Adam laughed until he cried.