Day 3 - and a Weekend to revitalise

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday . . . Only a week and a half to go. WoW!!!

Had a bit of excitement today. I've found a book [photocopied] in the collection that doesn't seem to exist - so I've sent off an email to the library at which it appears to have been found to ask them. It's a 1699 edition which is just on 400 pages long. At an initial, cursory glance, it appears to be an English Grammar book (written in Latin) reprinted from an original published in 1658. It's by Dr. John Wallis - better known as a pioneer in calculus and England's greatest mathematician prior to Newton. On further inspection, however it's actually a collection of his non-mathematical works (well some of them anyway). It includes a number of theological essays and a treatise on Logic as well. Very exciting. I feel as though I should be in CSI.

Because of the assessment item that we did for ETL503 on creating a collection development policy, I went to find the National Library's today. It's only a small one of a myriad of policies that they follow but it's quite a read. I particularly liked their Appendix on the 6 levels of collection which I remember from preparing my own but which I glossed over at the time. Their collection policy can be found at;

http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/CDP.pdf

I'm going to attempt to insert another image. At this stage I'm just downloading images from Google. I'll start on my own when I work out the technology and find the time - the later of which, I think, will be the more difficult.

I'm finding it quite tiring but for the first time in the last two years, I'm actually having morning tea and lunch breaks. We don't get them in the school situation although I remember that in one of my sources for the last task, the writer advised that the library should be a playground supervision area. (She didn't couch it in those terms but that was what she meant) Oh to live in Utopia!

One of the people I had lunch with today started advising me on what to go and visit whilst I was in the library: places like the digitisation section, the maps room, etc. I haven't even been in the reading room or the book shop yet! But I will try to get to as many of them as possible and take some photos.

I'll get out of your hair now,

noel