The results of the Reading Victoria summer reading campaign are in.  The program suggested 20 titles with settings in Melbourne or around Victoria and ran from November to the end of January.  The favourite title was decided by a SMS poll, with over 1800 Victorians submitting votes for their favourite. In reverse order, the top [...]

The Horizon Report 2007 lists the technologies that your university or school library should watch in the next 5 years or so. It is a joint publication of the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE learning initiative – both are groups of universities, museums and corporations concerned with using Information Technology for better education. Even if [...]

The slides from my talk about Second Life and libraries at the National Library, 14th February are up at slideshare.net: Flying Librarians of Oz:What’s all the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to do with libraries?. Now – with new bonus features. It includes a series of slides with quotes from other librarians [...]

There are only 7 months remaining until the exciting and innovative ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Conference 2007, to be held at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne. The dates for this event are Tuesday 9 – Friday 12 October 2007, so mark them in your diary and start making your travel plans! The call for [...]

The Carnival of the Infosciences #65 is coming to Inn0vate next week. The Carnival is a weekly weblog post that endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics related to the wide world of Library and Information Science. So, if you’ve read a blog post that’s worth sharing with the carnival groupies, send [...]

Tom Storey writes in Next Space : the OCLC newsletter about how libraries  can use assessment information to improve their services in this time of competition with popular search engines and Internet research services. He refers to Fred Reichheld’s book “Ultimate Question”. The ultimate question is… Would you recommend us to a friend? According to Reichheld this [...]

As posted here, a few weeks ago about half of the LINTers got together for drinks, whilst attending the Online Conference in Sydney. It was a great opportunity to put faces and voices to names and blogs. We didn’t have long together, but managed to share some ideas and talk favourite blogs etc. You’ve read [...]

It’s Library Lovers’ Day on Wednesday the 14th Feb.    Sue Hutley, ALIA Excecutive Director reminds us: Don’t forget to mention Library Lovers Day on your blog this week and link to the website at  http://www.librarylovers.org.au.   Please feel free to use the logos etc from the Great Ideas page. The interactive chocolate box competition will [...]

Today the software that runs the librariesinteract.info blog was upgraded to the latest version. As with any software installation, or upgrade ,odd things may occur. If you notice anything odd please let us know by commenting on this point, or emailing us at librarian [at] librariesinteract.info.

Often new visitors to the Australian Libraries Building will ask “how can I make money in Second Life?”. Well, now I have an answer…”spend an hour and a half dancing with a mob of librarians in PJS and bunny splippers, and be voted as having the best female costume”. There’s 500Linden dollars for that one. [...]