Libworld is a series of posts by guest bloggers on library blogging in their countries. If you are interested in an overview of the state of library blogging around the world, this is a good source. Articles are all written in English, and so far twelve countries have been covered. Australia already has an article [...]

Thank-you to everyone who has responded to our poll about what you would like to read here. Quite clearly you want to find out how to do things with 47% asking for more of these types of posts. We will be putting our thinking caps on to come up with some How tos. Why not [...]

The Oral History Association of Australia is holding its biennial conference in Brisbane in late September (27-30th). Old stories, new ways  is the theme with presentations on interpreting story, working with community, understanding memory, oral history and independent practitioners and addressing changing technologies. There is an optional excursion to North Stradbroke Island to visit the Historical [...]

On behalf of the Organising Committee, we wish to announce that Registration for the ALIA National Library and Information Association Technicians Conference 2007 is now open. The Conference will address key issues affecting the library and information professions in this rapidly changing digital age and offer a stimulating program featuring leaders in their fields of [...]

ALIA has released the results of its Internet Filtering in Public Libraries 2007 survey, its 3rd such study since 2002. They had 104 responses from Australian public library services, which is nearly 20% of the 548 services nationwide. This has become of greater interest of late with the Federal Government announcing the forthcoming availability of [...]

For those in Melbourne in July, this is one not to be missed, and not only because both Kathryn and I will be presenting!  Libraries, Web 2.0 and other Internet stuff will be held at the State Library of Victoria on Monday 23rd July. The key presenter will be Helene Blowers from the Public Library [...]

The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) has two events on the horizon for those interested in research data. Later this month at the University of Queensland, “eResearch Australasia 2007″ focuses on raising awareness for eResearch activities, information sharing and networking, Australian and regional eResearch initiatives. The program, dates and registration information is available from the [...]

Wow another month has flown by and its been busy, busy, busy throughout Australian library blogland. The month began with LINT getting into the spirit of Australian Library Week by running a competition which started off as Get creative in May and soon became Your Library in 2010. Although we only had a few entries [...]