Michael Rosen

The Children's laureate in the U.K is a very funny man called Michael Rosen. He is busy campaigning for Children in Britain to read more books. I watched an interesting BBC4 documentary yesterday evening about his attempts to encourage Primary schools in Britain to promote reading in school, at home and in the library. I came to the conclusion that we are doing it much better over here. Here he is on You Tube.

Adding a Feed

With a struggle I've succeeded (I think) in adding a feed from the Royal Shakespeare Company and Elly's netvibes to my netvibe page. Is anyone else, like me put off by the amount of information presented to be read? Now the art is indeed being able to identify what is relevant to me and being able to ignore the rest!

Rss Feeds

Following a colleague's good advice, I tried to take a rest from "blogging" yesterday. I seem to spend hours reading what others have written and although I find it often inspiring to see how well my colleagues are progressing, it can sometimes be disheartening too. It's a little like throwing a party for lots of people and trying to pay the same amount of attention to each guest...exhausting. It makes me wonder how my fellow 'HSP' colleagues are coping. It is fun too though and for those of you who are reluctant to take part, don't be!! I do think it is important that we, the library personnel are familiar with the latest techniques in accessing information because, as we are discovering, there is so much information available to us via the internet. I think our role will be, as always, to help people refine their search in order to search more efficiently. Perhaps we should offer courses on the 23 things to our users?
I did subscribe to Netvibes yesterday but didn't get very far. I intend to watch Rob's videos about how to access the rss feeds again and complete that task today.