Are you planning a trip in 2007 and want to see if you can tie in with a conference somewhere in the world? Or maybe you are planning your professional development activities for the year ahead. The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences shows what’s on where. You can view it online in calendar format [...]

From Timesonline, December 23rd. Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival google by James Doran Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo! Mr Wales has begun working on a search engine [...]

Ivan’s comment on CW’s post has prodded me into suggesting a time for another meetup. How about: Wednesday 27th December 7pm – 6pm Western Australian Time (I think that’s 2am SL time) Australian Libraries Building We were making noises about having a regular kind of “open house” meeting..so there’d be a time when you were [...]

Fancy tobogganing down a mountain range that represents a line graph of monthly reference queries? How about climbing from bar to bar that shows the cumulative number of loans per week? It’s possible in Second Life. That’s Emerald climbing up a floating pie chart in the Michigan Library Consortium building in Cybrary City. It shows [...]

Just in case you missed it, Time has announced their person of the year for 2006.  Out of all those individuals nominated, they chose…………………. YOU!  Time has recognised the phenomenal growth and power of social networking in its many forms (including Web 2.0 and Library 2.0) and has announced their winner as all those individuals [...]

Audio from the symposium is now available as a Podcast.Add the NLS2006 podcast with enclosures to your RSS reader, iTunes or podcast software to get started. 19 sessions were recorded and are now available, including Joan Frye Williams’ popular keynote address on the user experience. Other topics include: the debate – “Should librarians be politically [...]

Judy O’Connell is an Australian Librarian whose blog Hey Jude! won the International Edublog Award in the “Best Library or Librarian Blog” category, announced last night. Congratulations. Judy is Education Officer, Library & Knowledge Management, with Catholic Education, working with 55 primary and 22 secondary schools in the Western region of Sydney. She is also [...]

I met Rain Noonan this morning. She deeded the library land to the Oz Lib group. You’ll notice she’s our newest member, as she had to join up to do so. Welcome Rain! … a phrase often said in Australia. That means: We can set objects so that any of us in the group can [...]

If we were a bit worse for wear from virtual beer and dancing at our party, then think of the Talis chaps at their office party last night. I found poor Ajax so out of it that his status was “away”, but he was still chugging back the lager and cutting up the dance floor [...]

Great party last night, though it does demonstrate why a faster/bigger computer and broadband link is a desirable gift at any time of the year! Following suggestions from the Library Generator at the party I came accross a wiki full of library blogs. And a bunch of other stuff to do with the “Library 2.0 [...]