Only three short days ago the LISZEN search engine was made available. Using the new Google Co-op functionality Garrett Hungerford of the Library Zen blog has created a search engine that covers over 500 blogs in the area of Library and Information Science. Garrett used the list of blogs at the LISWiki to create the [...]

PROBLEM I’m being a little bit too 2.0 right now. A hallmark of 2.0-ness is admitting to users when you stuff up. I stuffed up. I was trying to discreetly change my identity on lint from “Librarian Kathryn” and “Sirexkat” to “Kathryn Greenhill” – with no comment or attention. (Here’s why if you’re interested). When [...]

public library closures in the UK that is. As I understand, despite parliamentary select committees and numerous initiatives, costs of the library service keep rising, while book stocks are decreasing and the public are becoming disenchanted with their public libraries, and the result has been lots of library closures. This article in the Times last [...]

Link to Bond University – Employment Opportunities – Copyright Coordinator Part-time – fixed term position Reporting to the Director of Library Services, the Copyright Coordinator is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of copyright policy and services for the University. The primary focus for this position is to ensure compliance with copyright laws and [...]

A-gnosis = “non-knowledge” or “loss of knowedge” LIBRARIAN 2.0 AND AGNOSIA Stephen Abrams, in his article Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World, saw Librarian 2.0 as striving to “Combine e-resources and print formats and is container and format agnostic”. To me this means that, when asked for information, we: [...]

Those of you who are not Firefox users and who have not upgraded to IE7 yet, would probably not realise that the Libraries Australia website has an RSS feed for their What’s New page. Those browsers can tell if there is a feed available automagically. I was inspecting the source code to see if I [...]

meeting at RMIT Wednesday OCT 25th, sponsored by the ALIA research commitee Fascinating meeting tonight at RMIT about doing a doctorate, sponsored by the ALIA Research committee with Professor Ross Harvey, Charles Sturt University, Dr Bonna Jones, RMIT University,and Dr Peter Macauley, Manager, Faculty of Education Library Services & Waterfront Campus Library Deakin University. The [...]

When we find a new web tool that we are pretty sure will benefit our users, when should we launch it? When users request it? When we first hear about it? When no-one else knows about it or has shown any desire to use it? After another library has introduced it and received good feedback? [...]

Katrina Hughes is researching for a conference paper, and wants to find out why we still use print versions, when electronic ones are available. Link to Library Survey You can help her out by completing an online survey. Only 19 questions so it shouldn’t take too long.

http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/ Fri 1st – Sat 2nd Dec 2006 The John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW [Sydney] Announcing the International Keynote Speaker: Joan Frye Williams http://www.jfwilliams.com/ [Proudly sponsored by the National Library of Australia] The NLS2006 committee is pleased to announce our International Keynote Speaker, Joan Frye Williams,internationally recognised library futurist and designer of innovative library services. [...]