Oh what a tangled web we weave..
Hello world! As I’m the nominated editor (see note below) for this blog, I’m going (I hope) start the ball rolling. I made it home just in time on Wednesday night for Episode 1, grabbed a nutritionally questionable feed from the fridge, shoved the dogs over so I could actually fit on the couch, and tuned in, glad to see the show begin with a few flashbacks to remind me of where we were up to in this bunch of tangled lives.
I was having flashbacks of my own from being on set with the crew and cast and our own Sue Hutley back in February. (It’s fascinating watching tv being made. If you ever get the chance, do it - but wear sneakers so you don’t annoy the sound guy - and so you can still walk the next day. Standing around is THE occupation de jour on a film set..).
But I digress. Here’s what I learned this week: library relocations, even in the wonderful world of tv, are messy and inevitably result in the IT going horribly wrong before it goes right. Having a library card is the ultimate statement of citizenship (”I have a membership card, therefore I am?”). And always open your mail, there might be good stuff in there. One day.
The Culture Pod, that mysterious centrepiece of the new Middleton Interactive Learning Centre, has not been revealed, yet. But you know, that’s not what Sue and I wanted to pinch off the set if we’d had the chance. If you can guess which bit of the library we wanted to take home I won’t give you a prize but I will give you my respect. Here’s a clue, it’s on a wall.
Now, all you folk in Libraryland, talk to me! Talk to each other!
(Note: who’s me? I’m Lee Welch, I am a librarian-turned-lots-of-things-turned-consultant and through Porter Novelli Adelaide, provide strategic corporate communications support to ALIA. Which means I get asked to do things like this from time to time.)