Florida’s Ask a Librarian Service

Ask a Librarianis a service run for the residents of Florida. Offering a virtual reference service, and a 24 hour email service, this is another example of how libraries are agile and differentiating their service from the search engines.

This site also includes Hurricane Help which focuses on best serving the community by connecting them to services they require to get through natural disasters.

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The Secret Language of Books

Have you been here, where you’re standing next to a student, looking for a book for them, and you’re performing the little reference interview trying to extract what kind of book they’re after. Well look no further – a gem of a collection of the language of books is here from NoveList: The Secret Language of Books: A Guide to appeal. 2018 edition. This is great summer vacation preparatory reading before you go back into the library and face the new readers.

“a woman’s rights”

A really powerful report from the New York time son the erosion of the rights of women…..

Feminist Philosophers

The NYTimes has a series of pieces exploring what happens as ‘More and more laws are treating a fetus as a person, and a woman as less of one,  as states charge pregnant women with crimes…

A woman studying nuns in the middle ages told me recently that nunneries were often seen as refuges from too-often fatal pregnancies.  Reading the Times’ series one feels pregnancies can be dangerous, not so much physically as legally.  The series is so full of details that it is, as far as I cn see, goood material for classes.

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WHAT IS THE CARMEL BIRD DIGITAL LITERACY AWARD? HOW DO YOU ENTER? BY Susan Davies

An Alert to all Australian authors – please read and enter this competition…..

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THE CARMEL BIRD DIGITAL LITERACY AWARD?

THE DEAD AVIATRIX         A Short Story Collection    BY    Carmel Bird

Carmel Bird is the Australian author who edited the Stolen Children’s Book. She has written several books, including a book for writers; in 2016 she received the Patrick White Literary Award. She was the focus of a session announcing the creation of this new writing award, in the Red Rotunda of the State Library on the 14^th of December 2017. Carmel was also launching her new collection of short stories, The Dead Aviatrix

She began by acknowledging the Aboriginal Elders and the lands we were standing on; and then told us about Spineless Wonders; who are partnering her in the creation of this award. Bronwyn Meehan was the representative of Spineless Wonders and she was the MC. Spineless Wonders was founded in 2011; it is a short story…

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her side

A great poem from a wonderful poet!

Nikki Skies

She say for her family
she do what she can
when in reality it be for her man
who wants another mother like her son

so she wipe both they asses / and then her tears cause it be from the same shit

too tired more / more tired than / her mother who
taught her how to stay
who lived and died the same way
the palm reader etched on her palm.
now that she know,
she can remain calm
when he comes to bed
smelling like fuck nut and dried saliva

he’ll say it’s all in her head
so she close her eyes and have nightmares
of forever being a fool.

from the poetry book, Pocket Honey Wind & Hips
available at

amazon.com/author/nikkiskies

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The Knowledge Compass

When faced with an area of research, we need to be able to formulate questions to help us understand it. This brilliant website offers the educator, student and parent some ways to help formulate questions. Enjoy!

20 Tips to Help in the Schoolroom and Library

A great range of tips that makes the statement that behaviour is often the reflection of what is occurring internally in the student. I found the article proactive and all about building the skills of both the student and the teacher/Librarian, and creating a valuable toolbox that can be used to build resilience and persistence.

As a parent whose child has undergone the Resilience Project,I have noticed a great improvement in behaviour because they now have access to a toolbox of coping mechanisms and strategies.