The other day Peta posted an item here about the Beyond Paper Bag project. In it she mentioned the unAPI plugin for WordPress. WordPress is the software that we use here to run the blog. Recently WordPress version 2.3 was announced and I upgraded both librariesinteract.info and virtual.librariesinteract.info today. If you noticed something odd happening [...]

The other day Peta posted an item over at librariesinteract.info about the Beyond Paper Bag project. In it she mentioned the unAPI plugin for WordPress. WordPress is the software that we use here to run the blog. Recently WordPress version 2.3 was announced and I upgraded both librariesinteract.info and virtual.librariesinteract.info today. If you noticed something [...]

Over at Techcrunch, Duncan Riley reports that the Australian Government has launched a consultation paper on whether the Australian Government ought to have a consultation blog. Duncan thinks that this is ironic – a consultation paper for a consultation blog – the comments argue the case from both angles. Australian Government Proves Why Blogging Is [...]

About a month ago I wrote about a new initiative that we introduced, the THALI-Tags tag cloud. This morning an updated version of the site went live. The changes are: Using a new Yahoo! Pipe for the analysis of posts to extract terms; The PHP code used to generate the tag cloud was cleaned up [...]

Picture Australia now has an eye-catching new interface. It has a much more dynamic look about it with clear navigation, a favourites function and relevancy ranking. Check it out and provide your feedback via their “Contact Us” page. Picture Australia

Will you be watching? According to ALIAnews the program goes to air on the 31st of October. ALIA is going to set up a blog for us to discuss “how the series portrays us, how other media portray us and how others see us and how we see ourselves”. The Librarians – ABC  I can’t find [...]

Applications have opened for next year’s Aurora Leadership Institute. This is a great opportunity to develop your leadership potential. It is not a ‘management’  course. Last year, we wrote about the Aurora Institute and elicited a number of comments from past Aurorans. Since then two more of the LINT writers have participated in the week-long, Thredbo event. Perhaps [...]

Expressions of interest are now open for Information Online 2009 – one of Australian libraryland’s two techie conferences. It happens biennially in Sydney, alternating with VALA in Melbourne. Another date to add to your diary – 20 – 22 January 2009. The call for papers deadline is 28 March 2008 (Just an aside about library [...]

As Kathryn mentioned on her blog, we are running a survey on group blogging, the results of which will be used for our paper at VALA2008. If you contribute to a librarian or library group blog, we want to know what motivates you, how it started, and how you keep it going. Here are some [...]

Now available from Monash University’s research repository, are the results from Jenny Warren’s survey of directors on their thoughts about where cataloguing is heading. Warren surveyed directors of information resources departments in Australian and New Zealand libraries  on how they see cataloguing fitting within the resource discovery frameworks of their libraries. 68 directors completed the survey which [...]