Starting IE7 with multiple tabs

In an effort to make it easier for staff at work on the circulation desk I have found a useful tool available in IE7. We start each day with Tabs for the following: catalogue enquiry search, pc booking page, PLAIN, Libraries Australia and Google search.

At home I start with: iGoogle, Google BlogSearch, my blog, and my facebook

multiple homepages

To customize your opening tabs:

Click the Tools Menu
Click Internet Options
Click the General Tab
Type in or paste an URL that you want to use as your home page in the Home Page section.
Hit ENTER and type in another URL
Repeat until you have all the ones you want
Click OK
Close and Restart your browser to see them all open at once

Angus & Robertson Top 100 Books

Here is this year’s Angus and Robertson Top 100 Book List.  I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read.

 1 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
 2 Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
 3 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
 4 The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody
 5 My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
 6 To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
 7 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
 8 Breath - Tim Winton
 9 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
10 Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs
11 The Power Of One - Bryce Courtenay
12 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
13 Magician - Raymond E. Feist
14 The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
15 Mao’s Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
16 Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
17 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
18 Cross - James Patterson
19 Persuasion - Jane Austen
20 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
21 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
23 Marley and Me - John Grogan
24 Antony and Cleopatra - Colleen McCullough
25 April Fools Day - Bryce Courtney
26 North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
27 In My Skin - Kate Holden
28 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
29 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
30 The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory - Fantastic Book !!!
31 Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
32 Atonement - Ian McEwan
33 Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
34 Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett
35 The Pact - Jodi Picoult
36 Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
37 Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
38 Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
39 A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
40 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
41 Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
42 Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes
43 Life Of Pi - Yann Martel
44 Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly
45 People Of The Book - Geraldine Brooks - Fantastic Read!!!
46 Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly
47 Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards
48 Brother Odd - Dean Koontz
49 Tully - Paullina Simons
50 Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
51 The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
52 Eragon - Christopher Paolini
53 Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
54 It’s Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong
55 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
56 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
57 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
58 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
59 A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
60 The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
61 The Notebook -Nicholas Sparks
62 Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
63 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
64 The Host - Stephenie Meyer
65 Dirt Music - Tim Winton
66 Eldest - Christopher Paolini
67 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
68 It - Stephen King
69 World Without End - Ken Follett
70 Emma - Jane Austen
71 Temple - Matthew Reilly
72 Little Women - Alcott Louisa May
73 Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
74 Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly
75 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
76 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
77 P.S, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
78 All That Remains - Patricia Cornwell
79 The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
80 Past Secrets - Cathy Kelly
81 The Persimmon Tree - Bryce Courtenay
82 Husband - Dean Koontz
83 Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
84 Wicked - Gregory Maguire
85 Spot Of Bother - Mark Haddon
86 Always And Forever - Cathy Kelly
87 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
88 Cents & Sensibility - Maggie Alderson
89 Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
90 The Shifting Fog - Kate Morton
91 We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
92 Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
93 Hour Game - David Baldacci
94 Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
95 The Woods - Harlan Coben
96 Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
97 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
98 Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis
99 Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
100 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

36 out of 100. Not too bad. Which ones have you read?

Meet the Author - Matthew Reilly

From my Local Library

“The Friends of Gawler Library, Angus & Robertson Gawler and the Gawler Public Library are delighted to announce another Meet the Author Event in Gawler.
This time it will be Matthew Reilly - well known Australian author who wrote his first best seller at 20.  (He is now 33.)
The event will be held on Fri 31st Oct, 10:30am - 12:30pm at the Youth Shak at the Gawler Sports & Community Centre.
Morning tea will be provided.
Matthew’s latest book is Six Sacred Stones but you may have read Contest, Ice Station, Scarecrow and Seven Ancient Wonders.
(More details are available at http://www.matthewreilly.com/ )

Although Matthew’s action novels are written for an adult audience his books have become a major tool in the fight to get teenage males into reading.

For $5 ($4 for Friends of Gawler Library members) you can listen to a very entertaining Australian author, ask him questions, have him autograph copies for Christmas presents and enjoy the company of other literary fans!
  
Given the success of our William McInnes early booking is strongly recommended.  Tickets go on sale as of Monday 13th October from Gawler Public Library (8522 9213) or Angus & Robertson, Gawler (8522 4716).  FOGL membership can be arranged at the Library.

Be quick - organise a group of friends - and enjoy this special event.”