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Author Archives: Emerald
The straits times likes our work
Civica made it to the pages of Singapore’s highest selling newspaper last week, with ‘breaking news’ coverage of the finals of our redesign your library competition for secondary schools. The award ceremony for our redesign your library comp which was attended … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, Education, events, Library Design, Library promotion
Pic-of-the-week: Hey, Girl.
Hey, Girl. What’s not to like about Ryan Gosling (as in his amazing ability to take on myriad diverse roles and seem just so believeable in all.)? He also makes a nice pic-of-the-week….
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Civica Attends International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (iCTLT)
The Singapore team was kept busy last week staffing the booth at this big busy conference that attracted educators from all around Asia and beyond. Civica was a platinum sponsor for this event.
cogito ergo sum
phil nigel and i were having a conversation about virtual libraries the other day and the following ideas and questions arose, amongst many others, which I’d like to share with you: A virtual space exists only when and for as … Continue reading
Check out our ‘redesign your library’ comp for singapore secondary schools
I’ve recently had the pleasure of being involved in this competition which is underway for singapore secondary schools. I think that it’s fair to say that designing a new library is a work highlight for many librarians, so imagine how excited the … Continue reading
Posted in Civica, Libraries
Tagged Civica, Creativity, Education, Learning, Library Design, Library promotion
ThinkBeings
Congratulations Hayley Morton, SA Water Library (South Australia) on the publication of her new book “ThinkBeings”.
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Tagged Books, Creativity, Education, Library promotion, people
pic of the week: literary nostalgia
when recently visiting a friend’s house and was browsing the bookshelves (it’s an excellent way to determine character) this book caught my eye, which is my pic of the week:
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the reverse library joke meme
seriously, you don’t get out much (or is it that you get out too much and don’t waste spend enough time on facebook) if you missed this meme that did the rounds last week.
push button social curation – is this leading to our dumbing down or were we heading this way already? or other?
it’s just a thought that I had the other day whilst mindlessly pinning “cool things” and “dream wedding inspiration”** and ”things I would do if I won the lotto” to my Pinterest account.
the joy of books
this video is currently doing the rounds on the literary twitters/facebooksphere. unlike yesterday’s ‘news’ about the book in Melbourne’s north that was returned after 30 years, you won’t watch this and think “well that was a wasted 2 minutes of my … Continue reading
