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LGBTI ALMS 2012, Amsterdam, 2012: Day 3
Today began with a fantastic presentation by Richard Parkinson from the British Museum. They are doing a lot of work with their collection, and have developed a paper trail and web portal, which gets...
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Being published as an undergrad: The fast track to academia
Originally posted of the Voices of The Pinnacle Foundation on August 13, 2012 As a gay teenager, growing up in regional Western Australia was not easy. It meant that my only resource, my only...
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Getting a job in the information industry with a wheelchair in tow
While this blog mostly focuses on aspects of librarianship that are a little outside the box, so far most of what I have written has been primarily on providing services to the LGBTI community. Today I...
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Guest post: Autism in adults, and why you should respect us
Hey all, Today I am going to turn my blog over to my partner, Samantha Davies, who has more than a few things to say about disability and mental illness, and the way it is regarded by our society. Sam...
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Nerdy cosplay for PAX
I recently finished playing the Mass Effect trilogy, and I am so completely enamoured by the glorious Commander Shepard (the female one of course), that I decided that I wanted to make some FemShep...
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Corporate records and Uni Prac
So for the last two and a bit weeks I have been doing my practicum placement for my degree at Curtin University. Although I am a librarian, my degree is in Information Management. That umbrella term...
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PLWA Conference, 2013
On the 8th of March, I attended the biannual Public Libraries WA Conference for the second time. Not only do I find it very interesting, it was also a good opportunity for me to schmooze with some of...
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The power of a diagnosis
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have mobility issues, and regularly use a combination of crutches, a cane, or a wheelchair to get around. This is because if I was on my feet for more than a few...
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The best part of getting a new job
If you have been reading my last few blog posts, you will know that I have been job hunting for the last five months or so. The uncertainty of my coming financial situation has been weighing down on me...
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Why I wanted to be a librarian
I recently read an article entitled So you think you want to be a librarian? , which, despite being very American-orientated, raised a number of few good points about what it is like to work in the...
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Blog June, Day One!
So, for some unknown reason, I have signed up to participate in Blog June. God only knows why. Just take a look back through my blogging history, and you will know I am hardly a regular poster. But I...
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Blog June, Day Five
So I commit to Blog June, and not even a week in, and I forget for days on end. Great. So, today’s content is brought to you by The Pinnacle Foundation Newsletter, featuring moi! Enjoy!
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Blog June, Day Seven
Man, I am terrible at this who “blog everyday” thing! Link of the Day: A TV report from 1981 on this new fangled thing called “the internet”
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Blog June, Day Eleven: For the love of fanfiction
I have often heard people talk about “quality literature”. It is the idea that some written works have more value than others. Certainly some books are more interesting, have better written characters,...
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Blog June, day twelve
Relevant cartoon is relevant…. Source in other news, during an E3 press event for the new XBOX One, one of the male producers of the game Killer Instinct made a rape joke at his female colleague. Urgh…
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Blog June, Day 19
So I go to Kalgoorlie for the weekend to visit my family, and what do I do? forget to blog once. Urgh….I am failing miserably at Blog June. Anyway, so today I would like to share some of my favourite...
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Blog June, Day Twenty
Why I hate the world, Reason #168. 730 people have backed the Kickstarter campaign to find the publication of a book the promotes and teaches to to sexually assault women. That is right. More than...
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Blog June, Day Twenty One
Why do government’s love to cut funding for NGOs? I left my previous position at FPWA Sexual Health Services due to at 10% funding cut from the Department of Health. And now the Mental Health Law...
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Blog June, Day Twenty Two
Update on the misogynistic Kickstarter campaign…. This makes me like the world a little more.
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Blog June, Day Twenty Six
I have found the hardest part of Blog June to be remembering to blog over the weekends. During the week it isn’t so much of an issue, because I do it during my lunch break at work (bare in mind that...
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