How about more difficult? More rewarding? Are you less motivated to do your job? If I asked you, you may call me a nosy parker…but you’d tell ALIA, wouldn’t you? ALIA is asking library workers how much has your job changed ?, in an employment survey which builds on the Nexus project. It’s only 19 [...]

Well not quite silence, more that irritating sound of a microphone malfunctioning. Damian Conway, futurist, made a keynote speech at Information Online 2007 this afternoon. It was an exciting presentation showing how Librarians were going to rule the World with the disruptive technology of ubiquitous computing – ambient knowledge — and unlimited storage leading to [...]

Information Online 2007 is happening in Sydney as we speak! If you’re there and have anything to share we’d love to hear your impressions and insights. Thanks, Michelle, for writing up Day One’s events – see Michelle’s posts on the first, second and third sessions of the day – it certainly looks like there were [...]

SLOZ: Australia’s Second Life News Source reports that the University of Southern Queensland in conjunction with the Queensland Government now have an island in Second Life.

MMOs are Massively Multiplayer Online Games. For an MLIS class, library student Timothy Greig looked at how these could relate to a Digital Library. He’s posted the slides and notes to Flickr. He’s from Christchurch in New Zealand. It’s called What can digital libraries learn from Massively Multiplayer Online Games and pays particular attention to [...]

John Blyberg, of the Ann Arbor District Library, recently announced the release of the SOPAC. The SOPAC, “cute speak” for the Social OPAC, is a redevelopment of the library catalogue that contains a number of features that are present in the ever increasing sphere of Web 2.0 sites. Features include the ability to rate, review, [...]

Came across this parody page of Second Life Home page via: Laughing Librarian. No more to say.

I recently posted about a fund-raiser, Libs for Africa. Sharon Karasmanis, the organiser tells more about this project. P.H. Can you tell me something about “Libs for Africa”? S.K. Libs for Africa was formed in November 2006 by a group of interested librarians at La Trobe University Library.  The objective is to raise as much money [...]

Remember way back…before gui browsers… when the Australian Broadcasting Corporation only had a couple of pages on its Internet site? (It looked nothing like the earliest archived page I can find – 23 October 1996) . When I was first trying to get libraries interested in this new-Internet-thingy, I would always show the ABC web [...]

At the ALA Mid-winter conference, Sirsi Dynix has announced that they will be sponsoring the two main islands in the Info Island Project on Second Life. This sponsorship will support Info Island, run by the Alliance Library System and the Teen Second Life space, headed by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.  Its [...]