No round up of April 2007 would be complete without mentioning Deb’s (REAL PUBLIC LIBRARIAN) post, Sex in Libraries, wondering whether erotic, sexually explicit and even pornographic material have any place in libraries. Of course, pr0n is not the only thing restricted by libraries. Techxplorer has found that some educational institutions have started blocking access [...]

Like Kate Watson , Damian Lodge is newly elected to the ALIA board and shares a bit about himself in this LINTerview where he answers five questions he chose from our list. I live in Wagga in NSW, I am married to Justine who is also a librarian, we have two children aged 8 and [...]

If you really want to know about Second Life Librarianship, then this six week online course may be for you. It does run at about 1am on Saturdays, our time..but apart from that… Virtual World Librarianship – Your Second Life “Avatars! Linden Dollars! Librarianship! Librarianship? What ARE they talking about? To discover how avatars, Linden [...]

Kate Watson, newly elected to the board of ALIA is a young Queensland librarian active in the New Librarians’ group and interested in how blogs and wikis can be applied in libraries. She currently works as Rubric Co-ordinator at the University of Sunshine Coast. We gave her our list of LINTerview questions and asked her [...]

The results are in! From Sue Hutley: Congratulations to Derek Whitehead who has been elected Vice-president / President-elect and to Damian Lodge and Kate Watson who have been elected as Directors. Kate Watson has contributed to Libraries Interact, researched blogs and wikis, and last year completed a two year term as convenor of NGPAG. Damian [...]

Talk about food for thought. Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library recently held an edible book festival. Titles included: The vagina monologues A clockwork orange The complete book of sushi Link to Edible Book Festival 2007 – a photoset on Flickr

Libraryman has set up a Flickr group “365 Library Days Project“. In Michael’s words the aim is “Let’s get as many libraries as we can to sign up for a customized, library friendly version of the 365 project. That would mean that if you decide to participate, you would commit to downloading at least 365 pictures [...]

OCLC has compiled a list of the top 1000 most popularly held books in libraries around the world.  The list comes from the research division of OCLC, with member libraries in more than 110 countries.   George Eberhart at the Britannica Blog posts Fun Facts about the OCLC Top 1000, including the most prolific author, how [...]

The National Library of Australian IT Architecture Project Report (March 2007) is available online. Locan Dempsey has a summary on his blog: Moving to a single business systems environment. It’s worth reading even if it’s not quite your thing. Judith and her team explain things elegantly in a way that made me understand what info [...]

Usually if people ask me if I’ll run a book discussion, I fly away as fast as my wings can carry me…but now I’m signed up to lead one about On Beauty by Zadie Smith. I’ve been sucked right in (or should I say, “engaged by”) the new Book Flower bed in the Readers’ Garden [...]