Edited on 25/07/2025 to add reference to and discussion of the ALIA Code of Ethics – Cannot believe I missed this! 🤦‍♀️ I recently wrote the following piece to share my thinking and decision-making process with my students, following questions raised about the inclusion of an author’s work in a particular subject. I thought it…
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Tidying links for APA7 reference lists
Ever been pulled up for untidy links in your referencing? Did you know that when you copy and paste a URL from a source you’ve come to through a search engine, it might have some extra details that you don’t need? Well, now you do! Here is a quick guide on how to clean up…
Opinion: 2023 Softlink report – Part 2/3
Welcome to part two of my opinion piece on the 2023 Softlink report. The first part, available at this link, covers my thoughts on this year’s participant numbers. My plan for this post is to dive deeper into school library budgets and staffing. I think understanding these aspects is powerful, as they are crucial for school…
Paraphrasing is not *just* about avoiding plagiarism
One of the adjustments I had to make when stepping into the world of teacher librarianship was my understanding of paraphrasing. During my schooling and first couple of uni degrees, I was operating under the assumption that paraphrasing was changing someone else’s writing to not be word-for-word when using it in my writing. How wrong…
Book-sell blurb: Fuzzy Mud
The biggest bully in the school is missing, there’s this weird rash spreading up Tamaya’s arm and there’s this weird mud spreading throughout the town that has the US Government all freaked out… Tamaya usually walks home with her neighbour, Marshall, but one day, he demands they cut through the woods. Tamaya knows her mum…
Book-sell blurb: How To Be Happy
Ok, so, how do you know if you’re ‘normal,’ and should you even be worrying about that? Figuring out who you are is difficult enough, but when you just can’t seem to get it right, and everything is going wrong, what else can you do but become someone totally new… Enter ‘Crazy Dave’… This is…
Book-sell blurb: They Saw Too Much
Being on the run for your life is not easy, but it’s even harder when you don’t know or trust the only person who understands – the person who witnessed the murder with you… Partnered together for a school art project, John and Ceri decide to take photos at the beach. At first, it’s fun,…
Book-sell blurb: Someday Birds
Your dad is in hospital on the other side of the country. There’s this strange woman in your house who is supposed to be “babysitting” you and your siblings. Your sister convinces you to run away on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend to find your dad but you end up stranded in Las…
Opinion: 2023 Softlink report – Part 1/3
The 2023 Softlink report has been released for 2023 and I am FINALLY getting around to writing up my thoughts on it. I am pleased to see that there was a significant increase in respondents this year, particularly in New Zealand! As a result, two separate reports, one for Australia and one for New Zealand…
Book-sell blurb: Six of Crows
This town isn’t big enough for more than one gang, and Kaz will do almost anything to be the only man of power in Ketterdam. Would you join him? Ketterdam is run by criminals, exiled Grisha, and hunters. Survival is a way of life. Loyalty and honesty are almost non-existent and money is power. In…
The Lifting Librarian 