Images from London & Berlin

I returned to work earlier this week after a rather hectic two weeks in both London and Berlin. Initially I had a workshop and a short presentation about our future library at the Internet Librarian International conference in London, and I made a lot of side-visits to some libraries and other recent buildings, some of which were recommended by our Library Retrieval System building architects, Hassell.

My visits in London included:

• The London School of Economics and Politics (LSE) Library (a Norman Foster rebuild)
• The British Library (in particular the inspirational Business & IP Centre and the Growing Knowledge exhibition)
• The Natural History Museum (in particular the new Darwin Centre "Cocoon" structure)
• The Victoria & Albert Museum
• The National Gallery (no interior photography allowed)
• The National Portrait Gallery (no interior photography allowed)
• The Tate Modern
• The British Museum (particularly Norman Foster's Great Court enclosure)
• The Serpentine Gallery Pavillion 2010 (just before it closed) and
• Norman Foster's 30 St Mary Axe building (twice because it is so awesome)

I then spent three nights in Berlin around visits to three relatively new academic libraries that my boss had identified as being of interest to us: the Philological Library of the Free University, the VW-Haus of the Technical University and the central University Library of Humboldt University in Berlin "Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum". In addition, I managed to visit the following sites:

• The Memorial to German Resistance
• The Bauhaus Archive
• The Berlin (Modern Art) Gallery
• The external areas of the Jewish Museum and
• The Topography of Terror Museum & Library

I will present my findings to staff at some stage and also write a couple of blog posts about what I saw and learnt, but in the meantime, you may like to take a look at the images I've uploaded to Flickr (last ten sets): http://www.flickr.com/photos/malbooth/sets/

Warning! This post contains cupcakes

But you have to find them . . .



I gave a talk to staff of the Australian Museum about our Wallwisher feedback board today. On the way back I took the opportunity to take a few images with my new camera. I'm still learning about its use and all of its features. The morning wasn't too cold but it was really still and clear. The sky was a vivid blue and made a perfect background. I'm enjoying just being in Sydney with all it has to offer and my work at UTS Library.

Sunday Run

These images are from a run I did this morning on a really glorious day.

Lost in Space

This is just a photo essay on two lakes in Canberra. Words by Aimee Mann: Lost in Space and images taken by me while playing around with different cameras. I think you need to view it in Flickr as a slideshow to see the captions. (Select Show info once onto the slideshow.)

Denver Art Museum slideshow in Flickr