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)

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.

Farewell from my Health Colleagues

I was given a nice card, a really good bottle of Henschke red wine from South Australia.
It is a Keyneton Estate Euphonium 2006


and a magazine cover mockup from the team at a lovely morning tea today

International Food and Cultural Festival

There was an International Food and Cultural Festival tonight at the local Buddhist Temple in Leanyer.



I picked up James from his accommodation at the ANU campus near CDU and we had a meal and a couple of hours of talent and music which included Dragon and Lion Dancing from the Chung Wah Society, indigenous dancing from "One Mob, Different Country" and Irish Dancing.

Friday night at Robyn and Ian's house

Spent the night at Robyn and Ian’s house Troppo designed house.


They were delighted that I was able to locate a copy of “Troppo: Architecture for the Top End” in one of the local libraries.

Robyn and Ian cooked a great Anzac Day breakfast for their guests... thanks!
This Green Tree frog was one of many about the place; another decided the roof of my car was a good place to sit:

Chloe liked her photo shoot

Whilst we waited for her mother to come home Chloe posed for me on the front lawn:

Wednesday night at Darwin Sailing Club

James,Jeanette and Frieda joined Barbara,Chloe and I at the Darwin Sailing Club.

A pleasant Sunday afternoon

Robyn and Ian have just moved into this lovely Troppo home and we enjoyed several relaxed hours there on Sunday. The house was designed by the famous Troppo architect team as the "Rossetto House" in 1985