Recently I have come to realise that I can’t go on holiday without visiting a library in the area that I am staying. What can I say, I’m drawn to them. I find it’s always a useful experience to see what is going on in different libraries. I’ve just come back from a few weeks in New Zealand and my library of choice on this trip was Wellington Central Library, one of the Wellington City Libraries. One thing that I was immediately impressed with was the use of space. It is fairly open plan but the choice and placement of [...]
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Team away day
This year I had the enviable task of organising the team away day. Last year we went on a whole day team building course which was met with little enthusiasm and didn’t produce any results as the team as was soon disintegrated (of the 8 who attended there are only 3 of us left). This year I wanted to do something completely different. What most other teams in the library service do is visit another library in the morning and then spend the afternoon doing something social as a team so I took this as my brief. I set up [...]
