#cookingforcopyright - what I made today

My grandmother hand wrote her recipes, because there were not a lot of other options. I have digitised these, and have started a slow transcription process - which I am really happy for others to join. Today I made a bran date loaf.

Bran loaf ingredients

The recipe for this is shown below.  The variations from the recipe are that I used oat bran (because I had it) and wholemeal flour (as I only have wholemeal flour).

On this page I have previously made the Quong Tart Scones and the Currant Scones - both of which are lovely.
 

You can read an earlier post I wrote showing this recipe on a Spoonflower product I made.

encouraging making

 This photograph shows some of the action in one of the Woolcraft sheds at the Bendigo Sheep and Wool Show last week.  It was to encourage making (and give people a chance to sit down).  It really was an old blanket with which you could use the various items on the table to decorate - trying a new skill or participate in visible mending. I liked that it was simple, and was for experimenting with.  There was no overall design, so it was impossible to do the wrong thing with it.

Showing detail on the blanket of some embroidery

Do you have things like this for adults in your library?

how to you let people know what hashtags you are monitoring?

 This photograph shows a sign which was attached to a fence, at what was mainly an outdoor event.  It was easy to see.  It was helpful to have the social media streams spelled out, as with some organisations, this can be a challenge.

How do you let people know how they can connect with your organisation on social media?

A few thoughts on Servant of the crown (and there is a library connection)

Servant of the Crown by Melissa McShane
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I read this book because I wanted to see how a royal librarian was depicted in fiction. This is a political thriller and romance with a mistreated library in the middle. There are cataloguing problems (the single volume listing is stolen), supply problems for cataloguing cards (and creative solutions for substitutes), there are humidity issues which are destroying the collection, and on top of that there is theft and corruption. There also have been no new collection items acquired for over two years. This is not a problem of supply as there is a local publishing boom, but one of how new materials are not always welcomed in a heritage library. In this context since this library is similar to a legal deposit library a broader acquisition approach is needed. Issues of appropriate training for librarians are raised and that is a problem which is not effectively resolved.

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I will be participating in #glamblogweekly or #libblogweekly or whatever the hashtag is

I made it half way through #blogjune and then did not blog for the rest of the month. I really enjoyed reading the blog posts from others.

At the end of the month I read this post by Kathryn (so make sure you head over and read her post now).

I am viewing #glamblogweekly, #libblogweekly  (or whatever the hashtag ends up being) as an encouragement to blog, and work on writing and communication skills, rather than a threat.  I have lots of deadlines in the rest of my life which have no flexibility, so the choice and encouragement of blogging once a week will be viewed as a choice and an encouragement.

I have set up my calendar alerts, to remind me to write posts. I am not going to guarantee to write a post every week - since I did not manage every day of June this year.  Some weeks will be photographs with little writing.  I look forward to seeing what blog posts are written by others participating in this.

Happy blogging.