July 2011
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“In our library work we must never underestimate the power of listening. To excel at it we must always have our antennae up, picking up the signals our user community members emit all around us.”
—Designing Better Libraries » Keeping the Antennae Up: How Listening In The Library Improves The UX (via shrinkinglibrarian)
Designing better libraries
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I came, I saw, I researched →
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“Students reflect on library life in six-word memoirs.
… Really, my school has a library?”
(via Library Stuff)
“When I’m 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I’ll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, “After all this time?” And I will say, “Always.”
—Alan Rickman. (via valjeans)
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A poem for Wellingtonians
Yesterday A Mountaineer
Yesterday a mountaineer
climbed the Terrace:
past the building site; the rows
of cars marshalled like boulders;
the pegged course of meters
marking the route.
ice axe in hand, leather-patched rump swinging below
an enormous pack, he excited
only a casual glance.
he seemed well within himself;
he was used, perhaps, to
cutting his own steps.
I followed him. Sure-footed
on the rubble of moraine
above the motorway, he
left me trailing,
and vanished up the steps beyond.
He was last seen
going strongly for the top.
-Tony Jackson
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This poem was found two years after he died.
