Dumpling in a Hanky

....I mean, the Scottish Courts logo doesn't look at all like a rude hand signal, oh no, not at all. Of course, the logo / image used on their site is a far nicer "lion with paws full of arcane stuff", so maybe the "bird" version is an outdated one. I may have blogged about this before, I may not, who knows, I'm currently functioning (or not) in a sleep deprived daze. Is it the weekend yet? Can I go home now?

"Knock knock? Who's there? The Doctor? Doctor who? You just said it!" Yup, that pretty much summed up the height of wit and humour in my early childhood...have you heard the one about the two fish in a tank? Anyway, that minor flashback was triggered by reading this story , about a school library using a lifesize, working (well, apart from the kinda odd internal dimensions and time-travel aspects) replica of Dr Whos Tardis. It certainly makes it a bit more fun than my school library was - it's great when departments can work together to make the unexpected happen :)

Yay, it's almost time for the festive grumbling-about-suppliers and muttering-about-budgets SLLG Christmas meeting! And the musical speed-networking chairs game! No Scottish law librarian Christmas is complete without it! It's that time of year again. This year's Christmas networking meeting will be held on Wednesday 9th December at 4pm in the SSC Library . Christine Wilcox has kindly offered to be host again and the meeting will be sponsored by Avizandum. We will be sticking to our usual "speed networking" format followed by the ever-popular "mulled wine and mince pies" format. If you would like to come please let me know and if you have any suggestions for discussion topics, even better. If you're a member of the Scottish Law Librarians Group, I hope to see you there. And *ssshhh*...I may even bring along some teeth-melting tablet too... Also, while typing the title to this post, I created what I believe to be a new type of meeting: "new...

You! yes, you! Do you want to be a librarian? Well, if you love books, and people, and peopley-books, you too could work in one of those spiffing library places, where you can "bring books and people together". (Even law firm libraries get a mention, at 2.38) And those kids with the Childrens Librarian don't really look overly impressed. They will never reach the pinnacle of being.... A LIBRARIAN! Via @carlychats

Something @infobunny was trying to find out this morning...she was looking for what she believed to be the 2 cases decided so far. Where would they be? Well, any sane person would think "Ah, the Decided Cases section, that's where they'll be". But no, sanity does not prevail here! Obviously, where you should be looking for decided cases is in the News and Publications section, where you'll find a link to a topic called Judgments . Here, you'll find a case. Just one case. The other is mysterious, and not to be accessed by the likes of us. It may be real, it may not. There's no way of confirming that from the mish-mash of the website. Although @johnhalton has suggested that the delay in judgments going where they're meant to be is due to the fact that it takes a while to transcribe from the vellum onto computer... And of course, why would anyone want to be able to pick up an RSS feed of any important areas, like, ohhh, News? Judgements? Anything? Sil...

So, I've previously blogged my Library Roots , and added it to the wiki of the Library Routes project (and if you haven't done yours yet, get adding - it's fascinating!). I thought I'd now add info on my Library Route, i.e. how I ended up doing what I do today. Well...it all started off a bit randomly. I'd qualified, and now I needed a job. I was scouring the CILIP Gazette job section, and the library recruitment agencies, and the local authority job sites here in Edinburgh, hoping to find something, anything, that would let me work! But it's not easy, even in the Capital of the country, to find a job when you don't have any official experience. So really, after a couple of months, and with the savings going down fast, I needed a job. I saw a post for a part-time library assistant at a private members society library within the Scottish courts complex at Parliament Square. I had no idea what a librarian would do in a court library, but I got the job, a...

*Warning - extreme and pointed sarcasm may be used in this post. Those with weak hearts and constitutions may want to stop reading now* Dear people-who-have-agreed-to-attend-the-training-with-a-supplier-that-we've-set-up-for-your-benefit, I am very, very sorry. I obviously forgot a few things. I forgot: That I am your personal diary secretary, and I myself should have reminded you that you had agreed to attend this training. That you are incapable of leaving your seat without my specific instruction to point you towards a training room, and therefore cannot make your own way to your training. That the frequent pop up reminders on your computer of your imminent training session are only for you to ignore. Every time they pop up. For an hour beforehand. Every 10 minutes. That you can only tell me that you're not attending the session once I have had to come looking for you and ask you personally. That you cannot write an email or pick up the phone to spend 20 seconds telling me y...