Posts by Tamsin6
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I really must emphasise that I have only the highest respect for what library and archive professionals do – I’m close to announcing a sweet little get-together with Digital NZ, in fact. But music has always been a business as well as an art, and there’s a case for have people from the business on board.
With all due respect Russell, I don't think that you understand completely what library and archive professionals do, and also what they would like to be able to do. You say that libraries don't tend to go to commercial services like You Tube etc - but actually, we do. The National Library (a current employee may have more information on this) have a whole variety of initiatives devoted to metadata of all kinds. Library and information professionals HAVE to be involved in these things, they ARE involved and the DO use them - that is what it is to be a librarian in the modern age.
For the first time in my career I am cut off from these resources in my work - and at times it can be very limiting - because I work in a large institution which blocks access to these resources. This is where some of the issues lie - not with the profession, but with the administration and policy frameworks information professionals have to work within.
I want to say more but Saturday morning with two small daughters is making thinking (even reading!) difficult. Important to have these discussions, even though in this instance my brain is not functioning properly.
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Thank you Jackie - empathy and condolences are both warmly appreciated.
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For anyone who is interested, you can find the LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) submissions on the merger here:
The kind of people who'd make it tick aren't really library people.
Also Russell, I am interested to know - what kind of people are library people? I think you need to clarify what your thinking is on this.
After more than 20 years of working in libraries and information centres, it can be very dispiriting to keep seeing the same old stereotypes of the library 'type' - but perhaps this wasn't what you meant. I'd be interested to know what you were thinking.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to David Haywood,
Thanks for your kind words David and Sacha - I am waiting for the time when things will seem less raw. I don't think I will ever be able to read or participate in any discussion about New Zealand roading without thinking things like "Dad would have said..." or "Dad would have thought..." - that's a good thing though.
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I am also a latecomer to this thread. Sadly, this is because I have been in New Zealand spending time with my dad, and then attending his funeral last week. He was a traffic and roading engineer all his life, starting with his training with the MoW in Southland,and ending as a consultant with GHD in Tauranga. He was always involved in road safety issues and would have been so fascinated by the proposals here - even the week before he died he was still thinking about and discussing what would happen in the future of Christchurch. I am just so, so sad that I won't ever be able to discuss this stuff with him again. David - I just hope that this real chance to build something fantastic in Christchurch is not missed and that some of these ideas come to fruition.
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
Love this thread! Will have to read it again when I am home from work so I can see some of the You Tube stuff blocked here...
A few interesting developments with Spotify in the past few weeks -
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2011/tc2011055_645076.htm
Be interesting to see what happens next.
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It started here 2 minutes ago, but my husband has the remote. Grrrrrrr.............
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Muse: Monday Linky Love (With Added Geekery), in reply to NBH,
Gaiman has been writing for Dr Who, which is for the BBC, so possibly not able to comment?
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Muse: Rugby World Kitsch, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
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Honestly, Russell, I'm just looking at this and weeping softly.
Hmmmm - well, I guess things look EXCELLENT in the lovely brochures and so on, but us cynical East London dwellers are not really expecting to benefit a great deal from any of these Olympiad type spin-offs. As with the rest of the supposed enhancements to our lives - they are spending around 1.5million in our borough on improving some of the roads that lead to parts of the Olympic park, etc and so far, we have a few fancy new street lights and the kind of repairs to potholes that should have happened years ago anyway. The response of our borough to sport since the announcement has been to stop direct funding for all sorts of children's sport activities, and to continue plans to sell off as many bits of green space as they can get away with. The route of the marathon will no longer go through the East end, for probably extremely excellent logistic reasons, but the planning and announcement of the changes were handled so incredibly badly they spent 6 months grovelling to local stake holders, and lost one of their key advisers. Alot of the lovely cultural stuff will no doubt happen in Central London, or in some of the other pretty bits, like Greenwich. Here's hoping they prove me wrong. Accessibility is everything, and I would say that a significant proportion of the people who live in the Olympic boroughs will not be able to travel to these events - the events will have to come to them in some significant way.
Call me churlish, but many local people will be priced out of the whole thing - tickets have been competitively priced for most events, but the cost is prohibitive for many locals, and the whole process of balloting for tickets will mean that those who can only afford to commit to one ticket for one event will almost certainly miss out. People keep saying there is free stuff you can watch, but many locals will not be allowed time off work during the Olympics. Bah, humbug.
As for the lovely Dick Frizzell gear! I nearly spit my coffee all over the screen! Seriously - $72 for a t-shirt?!!! Yikes!
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Paul Dowden,
Ditto on the delayed response thing. I sometimes follow at work, but most of the links are inaccessible (blocked) so by the time I catch up at home it is toooooooooo laaaaaaate.