At the recent Library Board of Western Australia Award for Excellence presentation, City of Cockburn Libraries received a Highly Commended award for our website redesign project. Here is a brief overview of the project. Virtually a...
To Sharr or not to Sharr #blogjune
The FA Sharr Award is presented to a new graduate library or library technician, who exhibits the potential to make a significant contribution to the library profession in Western Australia. It is named after Francis Aubie (Ali) Sharr,...
Game Based Learning at Curtin University – Guest Post by Karen Miller #blogjune
Games can be very powerful learning tools, and at Curtin University, as at most higher education institutions, there is momentum to introduce games-based learning into the curriculum. In 2014 Curtin library set out on the journey to introduce...
Want to make a difference? #blogjune
Do you attend a lot of meetings in your role? Are you the (dis)organiser or one of the (un)willing participants? Like it or not meetings in one form or another are a necessity of working in a group, so it is important to do your best...
Guest post by Megan Sullivan – 2015 Kay Poustie Award winner #blogjune
I'm Megan Sullivan – this year’s very excited winner of the Kay Poustie Scholarship . I am the Youth Services Librarian at Manning Library in the City of South Perth. I will be using the scholarship to attend the 2015 IFLA World Congress “Dynamic...