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I am working as an e-Services Librarian at a public library at Perth Australia.

Dream job, couldn't ask for more, at this moment.

Website:: http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriaparklibrary/

Blog:: http://sewinglibrarian.vox.com

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Angry librarian part II

I have enough people telling me things like “Oh, GenY/Xers won’t stay long in a job”

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Posted on March 24th, 2007 at 11:03pm — 5 Comments (Add)

Customers are NOT always right

Non-Library 2.0 related

Say a patron who came to the library, received a service from us which was less than his/her…

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Posted on March 24th, 2007 at 7:58am — 6 Comments (Add)

Getting buy-in from management and staff for Library 2.0 ideas

Being the first public library in Western Australia (or are we still?) to set up a flickr site wasn't too easy at first.

First I emailed the information officer back in the council regarding this idea, sent her some links of other public library flickr sites, things looked g…

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Posted on March 22nd, 2007 at 11:51pm — 2 Comments (Add)

To renew, click "renew"

Been checking the WebOpac of different libraries and I am shocked when I read this:

- To renew, click "renew".

Less is more, agree, but isn't two words Click "renew" say it all?

Fine, if they are really concern, how about:

If you wish to renew an item:
1. Locate the renew button (please refer to map or contact the library)
2. Move your mouse pointer over the renew button
3. Place your first finger on the le…

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Posted on March 21st, 2007 at 9:58pm — 5 Comments (Add)

Question of the day - from the reference desk

Dear librarian

I have an email account from Yahoo, can I send an email to my friend who is using Hotmail?

=.=;

Posted on March 20th, 2007 at 9:02pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 2:59am on May 7th, 2007, pipipianica said…: hey hey, have you seen this?
http://community.livejournal.com/lolbrarians/

i am so easily amused.

At 9:26am on March 26th, 2007, fernando_vilarinho said…: Hello elibrarian! Thank's for the add!

Nice blog and all your creations

At 4:48pm on March 20th, 2007, CW said…: HOI!!! Nice to see you here :)

At 10:15am on March 20th, 2007, Kit said…: Hi there Hoi,
Thanks for adding me
I like the Beta Flickr site you've created for your POW.
And yes - it still takes me some time to navigate to the page I want.
has anyone thought of creating a Ning network just for the Oz librarians, yet?

At 9:49am on March 20th, 2007, snail said…: Yay, another familiar nom de plume :-)

At 9:05am on March 20th, 2007, elibrarian said…: after another 1000 seconds playing around, I found the 'add as friends' button, at last. No drama =)

At 8:57am on March 20th, 2007, elibrarian said…: OMG u r online... help... I want to add Kit and CW, how should I do it? Totally lost here... wish I don't have to sleep tonight .. haha

At 8:48am on March 20th, 2007, Kathryn Greenhill said…: Y'know what Hoi..I saw your blog post and almost emailed CW and asked "do you think this could be Hoi?". I wish I had done now...I would have confirmed that I'm Psychic2.0. Welcome!

At 8:31am on March 20th, 2007, elibrarian said…: Hi Kathryn, it's me HOIIIIIIIIIIIII... I am getting into Ning.... almost there... almost there...