First Post

Monday 16/2/09,
Just set up this Blog. I think I'll post different topics using different coloured text initially. Might totally change in the future sometime.

ETI510
Monday 16/2/09
Friday and Saturday I spent going on-line to the www.nla.gov.au/libraries to work out which library I would attempt to target for my Placement visit. Made a list of 24 which held some appeal.
Australian Museum Research Library - Sydney
Bicycle NSW Library - Sydney
CSIRO Energy Technology Library - Marsfield, Sydney
City of Sydney Library - Sydney
Australian Defence Library - Sydney et. al.
Film Australia Library - Lindfield, Sydney
Fisher Library (Uni.Syd.) - Sydney
Tourism NSW Information Resource Centre - The Rocks, Sydney
Jenzy Toeplitz Library - Moore Park, Sydney
Jessie Street National Women's Library - Sydney
Macquarie University Library - Marsfield, Sydney
Moore Theological College Library - Sydney
Murray Rose Information Centre - Ultimo, Sydney
State Library of NSW - Sydney
UNSW Library - Randwick, Sydney
University of Sydney Library - Sydney
Vane Green Library - Weston, ACT
HAGSOC Library - ACT
Manning Clark House Library - Forrest, ACT
National Library of Australia - Parkes, ACT
National Museum of Australia Library - Acton, ACT
Australian War Memorial Research Centre - Campbell, ACT
Russell Offices Library - Russell, ACT
UN Information Centre Library - Barton, ACT
Made some initial preferrences but am going to wait for the visits to make a final decision if I can.
Might approach the boss about taking time out of term to do it, otherwise July vacation will be best.
Feeling quite overwhelmed about it all. Waiting to be able to use Forum to help overcome extreme trepedation!
Noel

ETL401

Barely started. Bought the Prescribed Reading - finding it a bit 'bitsy' to read and the separate modes probably need to be focussed on individually and in depth before bringing it all together. Still, I've sort of skimmed it. Got Henninger: The hidden web: Finding quality information on the net at Parramatta Library and read it through once. Now attacking it in such a way as to produce a graphical representation of its (especially) hierarchical information. I think This one'll be interesting.
Noel

ETL402

Absolutely no idea - I knoe I should! but I seldom get enough time to read literature - children's or adult's - now. Can probably rationalise 'pleasure' reading as study for this course but I know that my 'inner-self' will send me on guilt trips about it. I come from an era when fiction, unless being disected as 'literature' was a decedent self-pleasuring activity. I know I have to overcome this and I am constantly berating students for it - "You learn facts from non-fiction but you can only learn life, relationships and humanity from fiction. Ok?!" - sort of 'do as I say not do as I do' - what a hypocrit I am.
Noel