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Tag: Reflections

Life in the Library – A busy start to the term

October 15, 2024 / / 0 Comments

I want to be more reflective, share more about the daily happenings in my school library and the challenges I face, so here’s the first of my Life in the Library posts.

It’s been a busy two weeks of the fourth school term here in Queensland. I started the term by attending the IFLA and ALIA Research and Effective Practices Seminar, Sustainable Reading at Every Age and Stage. It was great to connect with school and public library staff from around Australia for some incredible discussions and presentations on supporting reading.

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Ramblings: A Return To Reflection

September 23, 2024 / / 5 Comments

If you are a follower of my website (thank you, for that, it means a lot), you might have noticed that I haven’t really been posting much for a while. It seems around late 2023 I started to slow down a lot with my writing and sharing. There were a few reasons. The first was we had just undertaken a massive and extensive move into our new library space. The new build process was sadly not one I enjoyed. Everything was a fight to be listened to and so many opportunities were lost and missed due to lack of collaboration. I literally cry over the stupid shelves we were provided by the architects. But I digress. My focus turned to just achieving everything that I needed to achieve in the work day and it had become all consuming. My time for writing and energy for that diminished. That has continued into this year with more change and more challenges at work.

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