Date: 24 January 2014 Location: Coffee Culture, Rangiora (South Island, New Zealand) Time: 1.37pm Protagonists: Sally Pewhairangi and Paul Brown Reality: Not quite the same as it was this month back in 2013 And so here we are, back where it all started. Sally: Wow, what a year (and a bit with GST). Paul: So Sally, will you be irretrievably lost…
Tag: readers’ advisory
Watched Over By the Loving Grace of the Computational Engine: Mechanical Turks, Deconstructing Penguins and the Delayed Gratification Climax
By Paul Brown Foreword ’A profession requiring specialized techniques and training’ Part of the bargain struck in a Rangiora café with Sally back on January 1, was that requiring the composition of a second blog post as part of our joint 1Q84 Reading Map project. (He’s a lucky guy who has a project manager as…
Five Libraries Collaborate On Reader’s Advisory Project
Five libraries (four in Queensland and one in New Zealand) collaborated to create Beyond The Lavender Keeper Reading Map in recognition of of Australia’s 2013 Get Reading Campaign. The challenge was to produce a reading map of The Lavender Keeper to coincide with a visit to four Queensland public libraries by author Fiona McIntosh in mid-September as part of Australia’s 2013…
A Profession Requiring Specialised Training And Techniques
Reading Maps: In Context In his last post Paul shared his views on reading maps: In Reading Maps we find the intersection of Combinatorial Creativity, Data Visualisation, Quality Curated Products, Imaginative Interrogation of Texts, Networked Knowledge Gathering and Collaborative Connection Hunting. If you’re like me and don’t use too many big words one after the…
A Rational Fear of Tokyo Taxi Drivers
By Paul Brown “This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you’re on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable… Go as far as you like on this road. It’s limits are only those of the mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you’re entering the wondrous dimension of imagination……
