Anne Johnston’s Library Blog

I have been spurred into action again by two events recently. Firstly we have begun to work on putting together a team of students, staff and parents to run our school website. If I can show those who think they need to be able to write in “techie stuff” how easy the software is to use, we should be in business.

Secondly I spent a day at the Scottish Learning Festival. My colleague, school librarian at Preston Lodge High School, and I caught the ELC bus from Haddington at 7.00 am on Wednesday 19th September - definitley the most relaxing way to get to the SECC. Thanks to whoever decided to organise transport. I was signed up for two sessions on information literacy, which were as informative and relevant as I had hoped. I also manged to get into another session which I hadn’t signed up for. It was called Books 4 All and was an update on research by the CALL Centre of the University of Edinburgh on ways of assisting students with additional support needs. I came away armed with information about free or inexpensive solutions to make life easier for people. I intend to post my notes from the day on the blog soon.

See Taggart last Friday night? An interesting twist on the middle-aged librarian who still lives with his mum stereotype. No, still not the rant about stereotyping. One line made me giggle. The gist was that fraternising with one’s colleagues is disapproved of in the library service. This set me off thinking about various websites which use humour to shed an insight into the world of libraries. Continue Reading »