22
Jan
Brisbane Square Library Tour
To celebrate my first day as a penniless student, I went on a tour of the new Brisbane Square Library (hey, it included a free lunch :D).
The facilities are very shiny indeed with almost as many computers as books! Over 30 internet computers, a computer lounge dedicated for studying, catalogue terminals everywhere, not to mention the x-boxes and big screen TVs. This is a library for the 21st century.
Groups have been catered for with many many meeting rooms available from large ones with AV equipment, to smaller study rooms, to one very public one which almost floats in the middle of the top level looking down on the rest of the library.
The books (remember them?) have been mostly relegated to the upper levels, with funky colour coded neon lights on the end of each row.
As my house is rather lacking in study space (we don’t even have a dining table), I am seriously considering using the Brisbane Square library as my main study space. Unfortunately with the views and TVs and gaming consoles, it won’t be quite as far away from distractions as I would like.
And for the two lovely ladies I had lunch with, please find some working links below for the two blog sites:
Word Press - the software I use for this blog.
Blogger
As a special bonus, here’s links to a couple of my favourite blogs to show you what people are using them for:
i was just really very hungry. - a food blog
Chewing the Fat - about people with disabilities. (This one uses Blogger.)
Cute Overload! 
- photos of cute animals
Google Sightseeing - a tour guide to interesting sights on Google Earth’s satellite imagery.
Ballastexistenz - a personal blog by a woman with autism (uses Word Press).