Nundah Council Library

SITE 2: 20 hours at a local Council Library

City Council Library

SITE 3

I decided to take an outward looking approach to teacher-librarianship, connecting our students to the world outside school. The local Council library seemed an excellent place to start. Initially, I thought establishing links with the library would supplement our limited non-fiction collection. Completing 20 hours of work experience at a BCC library raised my awareness of the wide range of resources and services available through BCC libraries.

Connecting to Brisbane City Council Libraries

November 5, 2011

Brisbane City Council libraries offer an extensive range of services to meet the needs of members of all ages. Connecting students with their local library introduces them to a learning portal that will help facilitate learning throughout their lives.

Posted by Keryn Henderson. Posted In : Lifelong learning

Final Day (5 hours - 20 December 2008)

September 26, 2009

Part of my final day was spent out the back learning how to process acquisitions. I also learnt the circulation desk processes related to accepting payment of fines and reserved item fees, making computer bookings, and processing 'in transit holds' and 'Nundah holds'. Reserved items are placed on the designated shelves in alphabetical order according to the members’ last names to facilitate quick retrieval by members. Members are automatically alerted by email when their reserved items reac...

Posted by Keryn Henderson. Posted In : Library Procedures and Processes

Library Priorities (5 hours 19 December 2008)

September 26, 2009

In this week’s meeting with the LIC, we discussed library priorities, including promoting the User Ed IT classes; emphasising on-the-job training; creating a balance of physical process work and automation; and maintaining home library services)

The Brisbane City Council libraries prefer an on-the-job training model that aims to multi-skill their employees. Library staff advocate a achieving a balance of physical process work and automated processes.

Brisbane City Council libraries h...

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Collection Management (5 hours, 18 December 2008)

September 26, 2009

This week we discussed the nature of the library's collection and collection management processes for maintaining a ‘floating’ collection across multiple sites. A 'floating' collection requires different collection management strategies, including for example, rotating items amongst libraries to refresh the small collections of picture books, junior fiction, young adult, junior audio visual and magazines held on each site and processing reserved items imported from other sites.

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Catering to a broad client base (5 hours - 17 December 2008)

September 26, 2009

On my first Wednesday at the BCC library I assisted with preparations for the visiting pantomime troupe, including setting up, greeting and seating, and head counting for audit purposes. Later I assisted with collection management by shelving fiction, biographies and non-fiction. Then over lunch I discussed the library's free adult education program for people without home computers and the elderly called User Ed IT which includes Introduction to Computers (focussing on Web and mouse); Introd...

Posted by Keryn Henderson. Posted In : Client-focus