Two new scholarship funds for researchers are now being established (via ALIA): Australian Prime Ministers’ Centre Research and Scholarship program Fellowships are offered for research scholars, and Summer scholarships are offered for early career researcher. One of the eligible disciplines is librarianship.   Jean Whyte Fund The Jean Whyte fund, supporting research in librarianship and archives, [...]

I’m playing around a little with the restrictions for Blog Day 2007 and going for a combination of blogs I’ve recently come across, blogs I’ve re-discovered and blogs that continue to delight with new content…admittedly that last is stretching the rules ever so slightly. Some of my interests of late have veered toward the esoteric [...]

Following on the theme from the Thali, in celebration of Blog Day 2007, here are 5 blogs, new to me this year, which I am enjoying. Annoyed Librarian – the devil’s advocate in many a discussion, with a particular rant over Library 2.0 at present, which has been picked up across the biblioblogosphere. Always good [...]

These are my five new(ish) subscriptions for BlogDay2007 Social Networking Libraries – Research on social networking tools and their use in libraries. iLibrarian — News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution. The title kind of reminds me of Tarzan movies. I Librarian, You Jane? Ambient Connections via Ron Edwards — Innovations in game, [...]

BlogDay2007 is here! Here are five blogs that I have found especially interesting: Presentation Zen: Focused on creativity, design and giving good presentations whether at conferences, classes, work or wherever. Although it’s primarily about public presentations, it also has lots of great advice about being creative and presenting information (eg statistics) clearly – relevant for most [...]

I think this is my third Blog Day – time flies when you’re having fun! Five blogs that I find interesting? My picks (I’m going to cheat a bit and call them new, even if they’re only new to me): Ockham’s Razor, subtitled musings of the lazyst environmentalyst. Written by Clare, “a librarian doing research”, [...]

Happy Blog Day 2007. Here’s five blogs that have been going for less than a year, that I find interesting: Mobile Technology in TAFE – Sue Waters is a passionate addict of new technologies and combines her job of finding out about e-learning, m-learning and Web2.0 with that of lecturing in fish farming. Right now [...]

It’s a year since the last Blog Day, where we shared with you some of our favourite new blogs. (Yes, librariesinteract.info has already had its first birthday with a few friends and a birthday cake at home. ) Tomorrow some of us will be sharing 5 blogs we find interesting. If you’d like to join [...]

Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM Library2.0 UnconferenceLibrary2.0 – using Web 2.0 social networking tools (blogs, wikis, feeds, podcasts, virtual reality, instant messaging, LibraryThing, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life etc) in Libraries…. State Library of Queensland Stanley Place South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland   On the day before the unconference, the Queensland University Libraries [...]

Friday, September 28, 2007 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Australian Blogging Conference"This will be an unusual conference. We generally won’t have speakers, panels or an audience. We will have discussions and sessions, and each session will have a discussion leader. " — website… Queensland University of Technology Brisbane