Clerihew

 The Big Re-Set Resaid  

The Conference in Clerihews

Report of the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association Conference (Theme: 'The Big Re-Set') held in Melbourne Naarm 18-21st of November 2024 

Melanie Hechenberger

Zoomed half-hour surges

Sorted X in Pettee with brio

And assistance from baby Theo.

 

Melissa Parent

Made time well-spent

Sharing the latest updates, cluey

Everything on point in Dewey.

 

Philip Harvey

With a history

Took the hard slog out of cataloguing

But how do we describe non-stop blogging?

 

Michael McGirr

Could but concur

Cultivating memory gives us hope

As he took his next call from the Pope.

 

Mary Carroll and Simon Wakeling

Sang the same hymn, no mistakening:

People expect more than can ever be done

Libraries should cater for everyone.

 

Melissa Parent

Signed, sealed and sent

A love letter to the future, a starter

Writ in most impeccable metadata.

 

Liz Staer and Kate Wimer

Did not work by egg-timer

Information is abundant, universal, undeniable

But what is valid, valuable and verifiable?

 

Kerrie Stevens and Gillian Cain

Made the statistics perfectly plain

People expect more and we deliver more

Despite reductions, budget cuts and … more.

 

Nick Gellatly

Most gallantly

Proposed overhaul of what’s

A perennial puzzle – AULOTS!

 

Cindy Derrenbacker

Described a home tracker -

Belief in self, the righting of wronging

Makes for an architecture of belonging.

 

Susan Ebertz

Drew on experts

Herself giving boxloads of stunning expressions

For any and everyone’s planning successions.

 

Helen Greenwood

Quite understood

The unlikely but legal need for a quorum

And scribbled furiously though the Forum.

 

Sai Santoyo, Neil Horvath, and Mark Hangartner

Iambic pentameter (almost) partners

Proved themselves worldly-wise

With the hundred meanings of ‘rightsize’.

 

Huw Sandaver

Tagged ‘Engraver’

With incisive subfields on work forms cerebral

And multiplied entries for medieval cathedrals.

 

Albrecht Dürer

Welcomed tourers

Who engraved and incised as he pleased

But could only imagine the Antipodes.

 

The Royal Botanic Gardens

Contained gigantic bargains

Flowers galore popping up like Kusama dots

And canopies spread like cathedral tops.

 

The State Library of Victoria

Hushed inside, outside noisy noisier

Bookended walks from naarm ngarrgu (‘Melbourne knowledge’)

Noisiest travellers tramping noisily then back to college.

 

Geoff the Chef

Treble clefs

Arias and trills enjoyed from Grace Notes Singers

When not making dinners that were real humdingers.

 

Elizabeth Greentree

El-e-ment-ar-eeeee

Not, fashioned AI assistants by having chats -

Lack imagination but nice enough chaps.

 

Philip Harvey

AI? Who, me?

Wrote these clerihews -

He couldn’t refuse.