Crazy Heart

It is a requirement of this class to embed a Youtube video in one of our posts. Given that my boyfriend just recently showed me the movie Crazy Heart I thought I would share the theme track with you. It's a ridiculously pretty song :3



Aaaaand because this is a library studies blog I figured I should probably include something that is library related, so here is a funny video I found about children in the library.



Peace out!

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Bookshops and Dumplings

Great week! We had our first lesson of Training Skills and I feel pretty good about getting that work done. We only have three lessons left of that, hooray for block classes. What else... Friday night I got to spend some time hanging out with good friends (and great wine), Saturday I went out on the town with my bff, Sunday was recovery day so I lounged on the couch watching Batman the animated series, Monday nothing happened.

Yesterday (Tuesday) as part of Childrens Lit and Acquisitions we got to go out in the city for a bit. In the morning I met up with Emma, Aaron, Sarah, Jan and Mel and we went to a few bookshops to answer some questions for Acquisitions, and we finished that early so we went to have an amaaaazing dumpling lunch, I tried sweet pumpkin mini dumplings and they were absolutely incredible!!

Then at 1pm we went to an exhibition at ACMI about the conversion of Shaun Tan's 'The Lost Thing' from book to short film, and we got to watch the film which was great! Definitely check it out if you can, the exhibition is free. http://www.acmi.net.au/shaun-tan-lost-thing.aspx

The great weather continues and today looks like being another fantastic day!

Laters, baby!

P.S. 'Laters, baby!' is a reference from 50 Shades of Grey, and just typing it reminded me that Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy was just cast as the male lead in the movie adaptation. This is a picture of Charlie Hunnam.

I like turtles :3

Woo! What a great week! Finished comp task 1 for Social Media class :D

Just to recap I'll list my other social media accounts:

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/emmajoy.james

Twitter
https://twitter.com/EmmaJoyJames

Pinterest
http://pinterest.com/emmajoyjames/

Oh my gosh, I <3 Pinterest, I can't believe I've been missing out for so long, haha! I made one Library Studies board and another called Literature Love, but I'm hoping both will count as the two library boards I need for the comp task.

Apart from that, I worked a lot and I've been studying. Haven't done as much homework as I probably should have, haha ;) Buuuut, what else did I do, oh I bought a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five which I'm pretty excited about. But I can't read it yet because I'm still working my way through the uncut version of the The Stand. 1400+ pages later...

OH! AND a friend of mine gave me the entire Batman animated series! Super excited about that! Buuuut I can't start that yet either because I'm currently watching season 2 of American Horror Story which is AWESOME!!

I'd better go and get some more work done.

Here is a baby turtle eating a strawberry.

5 Resources for Creating Library Websites

1. Public Library Website Guidelines

 Published by the State of Rhode Island, this webpage contains a generic list of information that should be included in your library website. It focuses on public libraries, but the information could easily be applied to academic or special libraries. It contains a basic list of Do's and Dont's when designing a web site and some neat little links to further resources.

2. WEBMONKEY


Webmonkey has been floating around the internet for years. It is a community as well as a site for tutorials, cheat sheets, colour charts and code snippets that savvy web designers can borrow for their website. I have personally used webmonkey for hex colour codes. For those of you who aren't familiar with this term, check our the webmonkey page here: http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/color_charts/

3. W3C

This website is probably a little heavy going for people unfamiliar with web design and development, but the W3C is responsible for creating the guidelines and protocols that govern the world wide web. You can read more about their mission statement here: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html. This website is good because it also includes design and development information such as 'What is HTML?' or 'What is CSS?', 'What are graphics used for?' and a plethora of other questions pertaining to the creation and maintenance of websites. They also include links to other websites for tutorials and information.

4. Library Patrons

This resource was brought to the attention of the class and I thought it was brilliant, as well as shattered that I didn't even think of it! Of course the patrons are the absolute best resource for designing the library website because they are the ones that have to use it! I think the more often and the more ways patrons are asked about the website and its services the better for the library. There might even be a web design guru hiding there!

5. Library Collections

And of course the final resource which I also overlooked when thinking about designing websites, the actual library collection itself. There are entire journals dedicated to designing websites with tutorials and cheat sheets and code snippets. Any books published on HTML or the like would probably be outdated, but they could provide an excellent crash course in the basics. Online resources as well might have links to video tutorials and things. The library collection should probably be your first stop when it comes to designing your libraries website!