eBooks can save your blushes!

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According to the Daily Telegraph we use eBooks to save us from embarrassment. Apparently we like to to hide books we would rather not let other people see us reading within the electronic walls of an eReader or mobile device. For all anyone knows you are reading  How to Teach your Children Shakespeare when really…
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National Geographic goes electric

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I always wanted to be a vet when I was a kid so I  loved National Geographic magazine. Then I grew up and met biochemistry and dissections at university and my dreams changed.  National Geographic continues to produce amazing material through the National Geographic Digital Archive which includes: National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-Current online access to all…
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Purge yourself of sinful sugar

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As a librarian, I obviously get a great many resources sliding across my desk. All genres, mediums, types, categories and kinds, whatever, pass through my grubby little paws and are whipped out onto the shelves, or forwarded onto another library ... Some things DON'T attract my attention, such as Fifty Shades of Grey, Mills and…
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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

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You probably know the story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses. Twelve sisters disappear at night and come back with worn out shoes — where have they gone? The father offers a reward for anyone who can solve the mystery. The mystery of The Girls at the Kingfisher Club has already been solved. A father, determined for…
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Off the shelf

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As followers of our blog will know, voracious reader Robyn has been sharing with us on a regular basis the titles that she has been adding to her For Later list. This time she reports back on some of the titles that have graduated to her Completed shelf. Some things that recently moved from my…
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