Today is Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day. At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we pause for a moment’s silence to remember those who have suffered and died in war. There are very few of us whose lives have not been affected in some way…

The 2014 Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) have arrived from Thomson Reuters. You can find them right now in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). A JIF for a journal for a given year measures the overall number of citations of articles published in that journal in the two previous years, and divides them…

Blog post by Education students, Catherine Ayres and Jessica MacLeod. Last Wednesday, QUT Kelvin Grove Library held a National Simultaneous Storytime event with enthusiastic attendance from forty children (aged from three to five!) belonging to C&K, Herston Road and C&K, School Street. National Simultaneous Storytime is an annual…

[youtube E6qLSo9RsaE] Have you seen Shaun the Sheep? He’s woolly, wily and awfully cute – and you can find him in the Library! Shaun the Sheep is now one of the most successful animated characters ever. He’s wildly popular not only in English-speaking countries, but also in Japan,…

888,246 ceramic poppies spilling into the moat of the Tower of London, each representing a British or colonial death during the First World War. (And remember, this is only one side of the conflict!) The installation is called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. It’s both beautiful and…