My current favourite song!

I'm a Gleek!

My daughter and I have been enjoying watching Glee together. (In fact hubby and son watch too!) We have really been bonding over our discussions of our favourite characters (and those we HATE!), and which songs are our favourites.

It's on again tonight!

For now, enjoy this...

Feel Good Music for Spring

It feels like spring here today. It's warm, and I can smell a heady mix of Jasmine and wood smoke (from the Rural Fire Service doing hazard reduction burns before the bushfire season starts).

Here's some music that I think is just right for driving in the car with the windows down!

Just a quick post!

I am loving the new Mika single We are Golden that I'm hearing on the radio!

Head over to Bellas Novella to find out how to create your own (pretend!) debut novel cover like the one above. I don't have time to fiddle around with one (though I'd love to) so if you have a go, make sure you link to it in my comments so I can have a look!

The other pic (super librarian comic) I put in by accident, and now I can't delete it without removing the whole post.

Enjoy!

This is a picture of the flautist Jane Rutter with the three girls that came along to her concert An Australian in Paris with me: (from left) Hannah, Etta and Denika.

An Australian in Paris was brilliant, inspiring and intimate in equal measures. We sat in the third row as Jane spoke from the heart about her experiences as a young music student in Paris, weaving French poetry and music through the story. She also included stories of artists, musicians and writers of generations past, who flourished in the hothouse environment of the Left Bank.

Jane's flute playing was, of course, spectacular, but even more impressive was the way the show wove humour and pathos together to provide a window into her passion for the arts and all things Parisian.

The girls aren't old enough to fully appreciate her story, but they were inspired by the beauty and virtuosity of her playing.

I submitted my Collection Management Policy yesterday afternoon. I spent all day polishing it, and simply couldn't stand to look at it anymore. I know there are still things I could change and improve, but sometimes you just have to say "enough is enough". Now I just have to finish the last assignment of the semester, and take a well deserved break to do some serious recreational reading!

My assignment has been submitted, for better or worse. I still don't have my mark for my first assignment, so I have no feedback on my work to help me improve yet. Hopefully I'll have something back soon, so that I can use the marker's comments to inform my work. I really want to do well.

I am starting to form a mental picture of the TL's role. I feel it would be very important for me to be well organised if I were to have any hope at all of fulfilling the role. I think I would need written policies for Collection Development and Information Literacy, a clear set of short, medium and long term goals, and some sort of weekly/monthly timetable so I get everything done! I'm thinking back to Covey's 7 habits and I'm imagining setting out my goals and then timetabling things in that I can do each week to move forward on each of the goals.

For example: Monday - attend Stage 3 planning meeting, Tuesday - weed junior fiction A-B, Wednesday - write weekly Library update for school intranet, Thursday - you get the picture...

On another topic...Loving the new King of Leons' single - in fact am loving the whole album. Also still enjoying Britney's Circus and Pink.

Books I fancy re-reading: Gone with the Wind (it's been ages!) and Pride and Prejudice.