Recent Reads

A couple of interesting items lately -- one is the proceedings from the International Indigenous Librarians' Forum which is held every two years in different spots around the world. The next will be held in New Zealand in February, 2009. While I won't be attending, I am looking forward to hearing about it from people who go and I'm hoping to be able to get the proceedings for our library when they're published. Also, I've started to read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes about the history of Australia as a penal colony, only told from the convict's point of view. First published in 1986, it won a heap of awards and is a huge book.