Top 5 for Friday - Change

WOW - What a week! It has been crazy busy (forgive the bad grammar) across Auckland as customers from Wellsford to Clevedon (and every part in between) have taken to the bigger brighter Auckland Libraries organisation with enthusiasm. Books are winging their way around Auckland (huge ups to all our courier drivers who are moving enormous quantities of books and other resources). We have all been working really hard behind the scenes so that service at the desk remains as seamless as possible - all with a smile.

As this week as seen so much change, I thought that would be an excellent theme for the Top 5 today. So I went to our flash new Library website and typed "Change" into the search box. As a keyword search that gave me over 30,000 results. If you look closely at the right hand side of the new search page, you can see that this search can be narrowed down (refined) by format, year, subject, audience, region (among others). It takes a bit of getting used to but is a wonderful option for those that want something more than our classic catalogue (which is also available). I will be talking more about how this all works next week. In the meantime, here is my Top 5 for Friday.

1. The Winners Bible: Rewire your brain for permanent change by Kerry Spackman. The Winner's Bible gives you mental and emotional tools that can change your natural desires and rid you of habits that limit your happiness or potential. Dr. Spackman provides practical, proven techniques for acquiring the strengths necessary to grow into a better, happier, and more powerful person. He's used these techniques to genuinely revolutionize the lives of normal people, sports stars, business people and even drug addicts - sometimes in a single session.
2. Destitute Gourmet - Sophie Gray. Change means different things to different people so the subtitle of this book "stunning food for small change" puts it firmly into my top 5 (plus I am a cook-book junkie).
3. Change for the Better - Georgina Beyer and Cathy Casey. Former MP and Mayor of Carterton Georgina Beyer, was born in 1957 as George Bertrand. This powerful biography tells her story - of a change bigger than most of us can imagine.
4. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood. I haven't read this book but it is immediately going onto my request list. An entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children sounds like just the sort of inspirational tale that will keep me interested and inspire me.
5. And for a light-hearted and musical end to the list, I can't go past my first ever pop idol. David Bowie with the album Changes.

Have an awesome weekend everyone. Ka kite