Well, the date was with my blog but I’m certainly late. I like to publish on a Monday and today is Tuesday. So I’m sitting here while the Prague Cello Quartet sits in a library somewhere and plays Roxanne by The Police and pretending to write something useful. I could ...

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Something I used to do in the dim, dark past i.e. before I started studying at university, was to write an occasional article about what was happening in the book industry. I’ve had a couple of interesting things come across my desk recently so I’m going to share some of ...

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If you’re a published author you’ll want to check out Blasty, it’s still in Beta format but as it’s trusted by Google it looks really promising. Basically, once you’ve signed up it works in the background as you can see in this article and notifies you if your book has potential ...

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Just driving past and happened to be in a good position to take a photo of Flemington Library…as I was starting to drive off so you’re very lucky to get a decent photo. Flemington Library Sitting at some red lights I looked up and noticed this building was called Shakespeare ...

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Can’t remember the name of this town. We stopped here for lunch on the way to Port Fairy. This Public Library is now the Information Centre. Public Library I don’t like embarrassing companies when they can’t spell their own company on the package so you can use your own eyes to figure ...

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An apology for not writing Friday photos last Friday but I went back to bed with a migraine. This is the very last article about my travels to and from Sydney for the Book Expo. My first stop on my way home was a place called Yass, it’s quite a big ...

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Dispicable Me As you know I’m not above pointing out other people’s typos. It’s not because I’m perfect and have none of my own but more because I can. Little Library A frame The Little Library is a free library in Melbourne Central, it’s somewhere on one of the upper floors ...

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Today I’m looking at new borrowing procedures at public libraries. I was at the City Library on Tuesday and found I didn’t need to speak to anyone at all. There were lots of people there but very few staff. The photo is not good so I’ll move onto the next ...

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I don’t get this advertising. I read ‘Fits 7 Bodies’ and wonder how they died. Also, the car might fit more bodies if they were dismembered. I didn’t look at the originating country but I do wonder what their word for automobile is and whether it’s actually two words, would ...

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Libraries are awesome, they’ve changed dramatically over the years and this is going to be a few random words thrown together about libraries. Last month I was at Limmud Oz, a weekend of Jewish learning and found myself paying attention to a panel about growing up in Carlton prior to World ...

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One of the day trips during our conference in Boston was to the Yiddish Book Center, as you can imagine that was a must see for me so I dropped everything else and booked myself for this trip. Aaron Lansky is the founder, director and rescuer of a million books ...

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I was reading this story about funding cuts and problems with libraries and it got me thinking about how important libraries really are. If you’re a big reader or you have a small home or even a small income then you can’t possibly buy all the books you want. If ...

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Those of you who’ve been following me on Twitter or Facebook will know that I’ve been volunteering at a conference this weekend. If you’ve been following my blog you might have guessed I like conventions and conferences. It’s not the sessions and the information I like to go along for ...

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There’s a bit of debate at the moment about public libraries and most especially, the State Library. When I was growing up libraries were for being very quiet in. I was even scared to whisper in them. Things have changed. There’s always been a problem getting young people into them ...

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Libraries are a wonderful invention. I know I shouldn’t be advocating the use of libraries as it reduces the number books you actually buy, but I think they’re wonderful. My local library is having a bit of an upgrade and while some of the stock has been distributed to the ...

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