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I went to visit the Rye Primary school Library Enhancement group last Friday; a great bunch of kids - and needless to say, they all share my passion for books and reading!

They presented me with a poster that will be hung in shop windows in Rye when people borrow a Nim's Island from the school - because they hope that all the families at the school have now had a chance to read Nim's Island together, and are 're now taking the book out to shops and places in town. (How great is it that the school's crest includes a seal?)

I couldn't scan it all in one, but the school's crest hangs down from the book poster.

I promised I'd get back with a bit more about our visit up to the set... better late than never!

Everyone kept telling me that the two main things about being an extra were good food and excruciating boredom. The first was certainly true – the food on the set was some of the best we had on the Gold Coast, and I simply can’t figure out how they served a top restaurant standard in those numbers, and on variable times. I have enough trouble with a dinner party for four!

But bored… no. Even going to Wardrobe to have our clothes checked seemed exciting (we’d been given instructions on what to wear – I’m embarrassed to admit what a huge suitcase of selections we took in our panic to get it right, though in the end Tom’s apparel was still augmented from props!) But the main thing was watching the process from the inside, being part of it, repeating my tiny ‘role’, over and over, as many times as it took for that split second of film to be completed, and understanding a little bit more of the process of making a movie.

Digital Odyssey 2007 - Building Our Future - April 20, 2007

From the site:

Several recent developments have brought libraries to a watershed in the way we provide access to our resources. Moving beyond traditionally vended solutions, many libraries are beginning to branch out either by building their own software solutions, or looking to vendors outside of the library world to improve the way we present our resources to users.

Digital Odyssey 2007 will explore these new trends and look at how the future of the ILS and other resource discovery tools we depend on is being built today in the library community at large, and right here in Ontario. See how Ontario libraries and librarians are participating in the development of a viable open source ILS and offering next generation catalogues to their users. Learn the practical implications of becoming involved in these projects, what the potential payoff can be, and what the risks to our libraries are if we don’t become involved.

Plan now to attend Digital Odyssey 2007!