Thursday, April 30, 2009

First Mindil Beach Market of the year 2009

I attended with many thousands of others the first Mindil Beach Market of the year.
With this next image I also celebrate my 5,000th image uploaded to my Flickr album since 2004!(also my 564th blog entry to this blog)
Chung Wah Society Dragon and Lion dancers
Chung Wah Society Dragon and Lion dancers
Dragon and Lion Dancers Mindil  Beach Market
Belly Dancers Mindil Beach Market
Belly Dancers Mindil Beach Market
Belly Dancers Mindil Beach Market
Belly Dancers Mindil Beach Market
Living Statue Mindil Beach Market
Living Statues Mindil Beach Market
Living Statue Mindi Beach Market
Mindil Beach Market
Mindil Beach Market
Mindil Beach Market
Mindil Beach Market

Re-imaging Library Services Project

I attended this afternoon with other members of the Northern Territory library community, a talk at the Northern Territory Library, by Wendy Quihampton, Project Manager, National and State Libraries Australasia (NLSA)on the "Re-imaging Library Services Project"
She outlined the 10 projects:
There are ten projects within the NSLA Re-imagining Library Services Strategic Plan:
1. Do it now! - initiatives to improve services immediately
2. Open borders - opening up access to e-resources and services across our libraries
3. Virtual reference - integrating virtual reference as a core function, with a new business and resourcing model
4. Delivery - developing a standard service model for user-requested document supply
5. Community created content - identifying and implementing a framework and tool set for everyone to create and transform online content
6. Changing capability and culture - developing a framework for new work environments
7. Collaborative collections - delivering efficiencies through collaborative collecting
8. Flexible cataloguing - designing improved business processes for collection management
9. Scaling up digitisation - demonstrating the economic benefits of mass digitisation and defining best practice in management of digital collections
10. Connecting and discovering content - enhancing metadata and making collection holdings more visible and linked online.


Jo McGill and Wendy Quihampton
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Cathy Hilder, Jo McGill and Wendy Quihampton
Karen Conway with Kay Pisel