Library Conference, career, Strange Relations

“Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding”
World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council10-14 August 2008, Québec City,

Is Your Genius at Work?:

4 Key Questions to Ask Before Your Next Career Move by Dick Richards
“This is a pleasant read with potentially profound implications for people who avail themselves of its wisdom.”




Strange Relations

by Sonia Levitin

From the book jacket:

A summer in paradise. That's all Marne wants. That's all she can think of when she asks her parents for permission to spend the summer in Hawaii with Aunt Carole and her family. And that's exactly what she thinks she's getting when she meets a cute surfer boy at the airport.

corporate morals, careers, censorship

Critic Of Sex Education Book Refuses To Return Library Copies
http://liblogger.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/critic-of-sex-education-book-refuses-to-return-library-copies/

Career choice quizzes - just for fun
http://resourcesforfamilies.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/just-for-fun-career-choices/

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate value shift
Although recent headlines focus on business boondoggles, HBS professor Lynn S. Paine’s research shows a rising standard of corporate performance that includes moral and financial dimensions.
http://groworganisation.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/where-morals-and-profits-meet-the-corporate-value-shift/

public speaking, careers, harry potter, speech technology, myths and legends, debt, business

I have just sent out Pivotal Public Speaking - the ezine.

You can read it online, or subscribe here and now.

And I've added a new item to the Just for Fun page ...

Seems I’m definitely not going to be an air hostess, according to the Exciting Game for Career Girls. Shame I’m not going to be a doctor or a vet, or even a librarian – maybe those are reserved for the guys in “What shall I be – for boys”

Writers and Readers: The Trouble with Harry
By Ilene Cooper

Not everyone gets to live through a cultural phenomenon, but if you do, it is something you never forget, the sort of experience that bonds a generation. For baby boomers, lightning-in-a-bottle came in the form of the Beatles, who changed music and just about everything else.

Another British phenomenon began in 1997, when the first Harry Potter book was published in the UK

Read on
...http://pivotal.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/writers-and-readers-the-trouble-with-harry/

Malcolm Gladwell of "Blink" and "the Tipping Point" will be presenting Speech Technology at the Tipping Point http://pivotalpublicspeaking.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/malcolm-gladwell-on-speech-technology/

Animated versions of folk tales, myths and leglends - useful in the classroom or just for a browse http://ednewsbytes.blogspot.com/2007/08/world-tales.html

The Internet Librarian Conference is on again. http://liblogger.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/internet-librarian-conference-for-2007/

and finally Managing Business debt http://groworganisation.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/cutting-back-smart-advice-on-managing-business-debt/

I have added a new video to the website .

The Myth Movie

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