You’ve probably noticed that we’ve decluttered our sidebar a bit. (Thanks Peta).
We’ve added a “From the Thali” section for notes from us to you. For example:

we’re holding our blogathon now (aiming for one blog post every 30 mins. Missed the event held in July this year).
the blog will be unavailable this morning due to maintenance.
we’ve [...]

After I had posted about Librarians and Google, I came across this piece by Richard Danner
Redefining a Profession
I can now do personal research online. Am I more productive than if I had to go to the library? Of course, I am.(1)
“Information isn’t powerful. Information isn’t power. … Hey, who’s got the most information? Librarians do! [...]

Childrens’ Book Week is almost upon us. I asked my teenagers what books they loved when they were really little. Out of the hundreds of books they read, looked at and listened to in their early years, these three struck a chord. (The links are to Librarything - if you haven’t tried that out, you [...]

 
I’m a librarian and I love my Google. But I cringe when I read comparisons between Librarians and google. (Notice the inadvertent capitalisation. No, I’m not going to correct it!) I’m proud of the way we deal with the reference interview. I will never forget one of my first experiences in a public library when [...]

Ok, so you’ve been meaning to learn about some of this web2.0 stuff but never quite got a round tuit.
Here is a round tuit -(Photo by douglasamcintosh on Flickr)
And here is your opportunity. Courtesy of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County - a list of 23 things.
… 23 Things (or [...]

What’s a collaborative blog for if not collective brain picking? I’d like to harvest some thoughts about which technologies/social software/new web tools you think libraries should be prepared for.
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We just wrapped up a two month project at work where we used a tikiwiki installation to look at new web tools using new web tools. For [...]

Hello, for those living in QLD who are interested in blogs and wikis for client communication in libraries, Chelsea Harper and myself will be presenting a session on ‘Using Blogs and Wikis to Communicate with Clients’ at the next QULOC Session ‘Communicating with Clients Using New Technologies’ on the 28th August. http://www.quloc.org.au/
For the interest of [...]

I was as excited as anyone when I saw that librariesinteract had launched, plugging the yawning gap that had appeared in the world of Australian library blogs (the Australiobiblioblogosphere? The biblioblogosouthernhemisphere?). The need for ambitious, inclusive, widely read projects is obvious.
What I have been thinking about, though, is the application of blogs for smaller projects [...]

Could this be the start of the future of OPACs? Casey Bisson has developed an OPAC that is built using the WordPress Weblog Platform. I think this is interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly it was initially developed as a personal project that he worked on at night and on weekends. Secondly it [...]

Click on the image to view full size at Flickr - the joke is in the fine print.

Image created by Libraryman
I wonder if we’ll ever see community service announcements on search sites, recommending that information seekers should ask for expert assistance when their information needs are of serious import. Or will a search engine be [...]