I have just listened to Karen Calhoun’s presentation to the OCLC Members’ Council October meeting. At the same time I clicked through her presentation. Her presentation, WorldCat and the future of bibliographic control (Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services, OCLC), included audience participation. They were given electronic devices to record their answers to some [...]
The entire library community knows about this bit: The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm. But did you [...]
The entire library community knows about this bit: The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm. But did you [...]
The Australian Library community raised funds to give some African librarians the opportunity to attend the 73rd IFLA conference in South Africa in August. Sharon Karasmanis advises that the final report on this fund-raising activity is now available. $10,900 was raised in total. Visit the website to see photos from the IFLA conference and messages of [...]
Michael Stephens has announced the dates for his seminars in Australia next February and March 2008, through CAVAL: The Hyperlinked Library: Trends, Tools and Transparency – an Expert Forum with Michael Stephens No doubt there will be plenty of opportunities for TTW readers and fellow bloggers to meet and greet as well!
From the outside, the roles and functions of librarians can seem very similar from library to library. From the inside, moving between corporate, government, public, law or academic library sectors can be like chalk and cheese. In Australia, librarians tend not to specialise in one sector as much as librarians in other countries, but it [...]
Future of the Book is working with Digital Library Federation on “what could become a major iniative aroudn the question of mass digitization..”. The goal of the project “is to shed light on the big questions about future accessibility and usability of analog culture in a digital, networked world.” They have run invited brainstorm sessions [...]
Scott Carlson of The Chronicle of Higher Education – Information Technology asks some young(ish) librarians about what will change and what needs to change. These are the questions he asked them: What is the future of the book? Will there be a reference desk? What information services will be performed by libraries in the future, [...]
The National Film and Sound Archive, National Archives of Australia, and National Library of Australia have published a media release proposing a government investment of AUD$90m over the next four years to manage the digital tidal wave of images and sounds. Access Economics examined the proposal and commented that “ The benefits are significant and in large part [...]
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