It has been over two months since the Federal Government announced changes in Australian copyright law, changes which will have an impact on libraries, library users and regular consumers of copyright-protected material, i.e. just about all Australians. We are still waiting for the exposure draft of the new legislation, according to the Australian Copyright Council, [...]

Technorati ProfileThis is just a boring post so that we at librariesinteract can claim our blog on Technorati – we have to prove that we own the blog by including that little link above. In case you are interested this blog has ducked into the top 200,000 blogs. Maybe we should celebrate when we break [...]

If you are not subscribed to ALA TechSource, you may have missed Michael Stephens post on recent developments in the US where libraries are being threatened with report to the US Justice Dept. if they provide access to Flickr on their public use computers. In addition, public libraries that are open to children (which ones [...]

You may have noticed that we now have two feed counters in our sidebar. Why are we changing feeds? Well LibrariesInteract has been far more successful picking up subscribers in such a short time than we ever imagined. We were going to play around experimenting for a few months and then see how it went, [...]

The travelling Infosciences Carnival #48 will be coming to Connecting Librarian in the week starting August 7th. If there is something that you think should be aired more widely, please send it to me at [email protected]. Submissions close Sunday 6th August at 12.oo midnight (which is sometime Sunday morning UK time and sometime Saturday night [...]

Michael Stephens has published his thorough handouts from a training session at Cherry Hill Library 20-21 July. Includes gems like blogging guidelines, blogging style guidelines, evaluating LIS blogs. Read and enjoy.

I read Corey’s post on the use of wikis in team environments and was writing up a comment when I realised I’d gone off topic. So, I snipped the last bit from the comment and decided to develop it further here… I was thinking today about how blogs could be used to manage other kinds [...]

Here at the RUBRIC project we have a wiki that we make available to all of our project partners and board members. So what exactly is a wiki? The definition provided by the Wikipedia, the worlds largest and best known wiki, states: A wiki … is a type of website that allows users to easily [...]

ALIA is just getting underway with regional meetings for their National Advisory Congress with meetings across the country. The first was in Alice Springs last week, with Brisbane tomorrow, and the rest are planning to meet during August. I recall going to the Sydney one last year at which a dozen or so folk attended [...]

I love the sense of community that blogs can create.  It’s brainstorming – internet style, really, with all the value that we get from the brainstorming process, as well as that personal (yuk hate the word) bonding.  I’ve found a corollary of this process… where the brainstorming happens in person and then the results are shared [...]