The removalists came early in the morning, and my unit was empty by mid morning. Jessie and Rod collected me mid afternoon and I went out to stay with them at Howard Springs.
I enjoyed a short dip in their swimming pool.
Later I was invited to join them at Roger and Jinx's home for a good dinner and far too much red wine!
Sunday lunch was spent with some of my team at Cornucopia Cafe at the Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery.
I had to have one last order of Eggs Royal (Tasmanian smoked salmon on poached eggs on foccacia bread)
with a glass of red from the Coonawarra,and the Orange and Almond cake was pretty good as well!!!
Then another swim in the pool, aaahhhhh the Territory life I am leaving.....
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
My Unit
Thursday, November 16, 2006
My farewell morning tea
It was a great morning tea, with a very witty speech by my Associate Director , Anne Wilson, all in good humour about my work here.
"Thank you for leading the LILL team and for increasing the Team’s profile amongst the academic staff
Thank you for creating an image gallery of the entire library staff
Thank you for mentoring the newer and younger LILLs
Thank you for providing an active social life for the unattached ladies in the team
Thank you for challenging my management skills
Thank you for surfing the net on my behalf and providing me with lots of interesting reading
Thank you for taking on the role of law liaison at such short notice and running with it
Thank you for making sure the printers didn’t get rusty from lack of use
Thank you for Google Scholar
Thank for your contribution to the continued deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
Thank you for all the work you’ve done in Health
Thank you from all of us
Stephen Barnett a man with “big shirts and a big heart.”
I was presented with two very nice suitcases, useful for my trek down to Wodonga.
My own words include these quotes about leaving...
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach
"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch." Garrison Keillor
"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves." Amelia Barr
"If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon" [on leaving some friends] Johannes Brahms
I will also be having drinks on the balcony on Friday night
"Thank you for leading the LILL team and for increasing the Team’s profile amongst the academic staff
Thank you for creating an image gallery of the entire library staff
Thank you for mentoring the newer and younger LILLs
Thank you for providing an active social life for the unattached ladies in the team
Thank you for challenging my management skills
Thank you for surfing the net on my behalf and providing me with lots of interesting reading
Thank you for taking on the role of law liaison at such short notice and running with it
Thank you for making sure the printers didn’t get rusty from lack of use
Thank you for Google Scholar
Thank for your contribution to the continued deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
Thank you for all the work you’ve done in Health
Thank you from all of us
Stephen Barnett a man with “big shirts and a big heart.”
I was presented with two very nice suitcases, useful for my trek down to Wodonga.
My own words include these quotes about leaving...
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach
"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch." Garrison Keillor
"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves." Amelia Barr
"If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon" [on leaving some friends] Johannes Brahms
I will also be having drinks on the balcony on Friday night
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Times past or have you washed your books today?
In cleaning up my office I came across something I have had for a number of years. Its a Western novel, a genre I have never read. Why I bought it is because its got a bookplate from the "Hygienic Lending Library" in St. Peters, Adelaide. It was last borrowed in 1948 (I hope its not overdue!!) I have always assumed that hygienic libraries came about because of such concerns as tuberculosis etc.
I did a bit of research and found this article in the Medical Journal of Australia from 2001
"Books as carriers of disease In the early years of bacteriology, librarians, microbiologists and public health physicians were much exercised by the question of whether books could transmit infectious diseases."which pointed me back to an evidenced-based review that appeared in 1912 in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
THE DISINFECTION OF BOOKS
I did a bit of research and found this article in the Medical Journal of Australia from 2001
"Books as carriers of disease In the early years of bacteriology, librarians, microbiologists and public health physicians were much exercised by the question of whether books could transmit infectious diseases."which pointed me back to an evidenced-based review that appeared in 1912 in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
THE DISINFECTION OF BOOKS
Cup Luncheon
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Friday night at the Darwin Sailing Club.
Big move soon!
I am about to start a new career move, back to the TAFE library environment at Wodonga Institute's David Mann Library
"The David Mann Library is a shared use library facility between Wodonga TAFE, La Trobe University and The Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre. You will find the library near Lake Drive between the Wodonga TAFE and the La Trobe University Campus"
I will start at the beginning of December.
"The David Mann Library is a shared use library facility between Wodonga TAFE, La Trobe University and The Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre. You will find the library near Lake Drive between the Wodonga TAFE and the La Trobe University Campus"
I will start at the beginning of December.
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