Meredith Farkas from Information Wants to be Free is conducting a 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.  She is aiming to see how the biblioblogosphere has developed since her initial such survey in 2005.  All people involved in library blogs, whether in libraries or personally, are asked to participate.  More information is available at Information Wants [...]

Here’s an international linterview….. an interlinterview? Walt Crawford currently works at OCLC and has written many, many carefully crafted books and articles on librarianship, including the monthly e-journal Cites and Insights . He will be looking for a new job in September and his list of places he’d consider include the warmer parts of the [...]

Paul Genoni is a senior lecturer in library and information studies at Curtin University of Technology. He has been working as an academic since 1993, and was previously Law Librarian at the University of Western Australia. Paul has published widely in diverse areas including reference, collection management and mentoring. He has a PhD in Australian [...]

It’s time to start planning events for National Simultaneous Storytime. Here is the update from ALIA…. Libraries, school classrooms, bookstores, childcare centres, coffee shops, mums and dads clubs and children’s hospitals are all invited to register for NSS ! The Australian Library and Information Assocation is delighted to announce that the 2007 NSS book is: [...]

Peter Murray, the Disruptive Library Technology Jester has provided a screencast demonstrating the Open Library Project.  The project’s aim is to create a catalogue of “every book” using library and publisher bibliographic data using a wiki-like interface. It raises some big questions for libraries. As Peter says, “Open Library is one of those mind-bending, assumption-shattering [...]

I’m looking forward to developments in this project. Its aims are to enable academics and researchers to make better use of RSS feeds from a growing number of journals, facilitate re-use of aggregated journal table of contents data, enable libraries to embed journal TOC feeds into a free personalised web-based interface and to encourage the standardisation [...]

Peter Carter is currently CEO of Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation, a regional public library service operating in the South-East of Melbourne. He has been working in public libraries for just on 30 years which he says is both scary and possibly a little sad. He has a particular interest and experience in automating library services and [...]

If you want to see a real life example of a library using a social bookmarking service as a content management system… Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries is using del.icio.us to manage the virtual reference page on their website. Librarians add a bookmark in del.icio.us and give each one tags to assign the link to particular [...]

Journal of Information Literacy, Vol 1, No 2 (2007) has just been published. Lisa Foggo has a short article published there evaluating facilities in EduNation in Second Life as an information literacy training resource. This paper aims to identify the value of the virtual world Second Life, and the educational facilities available in EduNation within [...]

Calling all West Australian library folk, and anyone else who’ll be in Perth that day: LIBRARY 2.0 ON THE LOOSE: AN UNOFFICIAL UNCONFERENCE Feel passionate or curious about new library approaches, want to share it with a group of like minded librarians? Come to participate in discussion and presentations about new definitions of content, new [...]