Random House Audio has announced that “it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.” (from Boing Boing) Random House Audio  provides downloadable audio to popular Random House print titles, as well as titles from other publishing houses.  Their audio is available through iTunes, Audible and eMusic. [...]

The Australian Library Journal is editing a special issue on web 2.0 and the library and information science profession. The issue is being put together by a couple of folk responsible for the recent Beyond the Hype Symposium in Qld. Guest Editors: Helen Partridge and Clare Thorpe Contact: Helen Partridge Email: h.partridge at qut dot [...]

The ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime is on a bit earlier this year, Wednesday 21 May 2008. From their recent update: National Simultaneous Storytime 2007 Wednesday, 21 May 2008 at 11:00am We are thrilled to announce that the National Simultaneous Storytime book for 2008 is Arthur by Amanda Graham and illustrated by Donna Gynell! The book [...]

A report in The Age newspaper earlier this month indicated that the new Federal Government has announced that the Software filter produced for Australian families and able to be downloaded for free has failed to reach expectations and is therefore under review. $85 million was spent on the filter, which was hacked by a 16 [...]

Yes another VALA post………..for me it was the meeting of kindred spirits and the opportunity to absorb ideas and experiences was so stimulating. So many of the concepts we are either introducing at Liverpool or are planning to introduce. We are in the process of redesigning our web presence, definatly going for the social space [...]

Hi All, I thought you might be interested in a new widget called Sprout. (If you have already heard of it, sorry ) It is still in Beta so you can’t use it yet but you can put your name down to be included in the next release, and I asume a bit of testing [...]

The State Library of Tasmania has recently introduced LibraryThing tags into their next-gen OPAC TALISPlus Try it out – go to Bridget Jones’s diary and click on the Similar/Other/Tags tab – you can then choose a tag like ‘chick lit’ and see the State Library’s holdings in that genre – lots to explore! Initial feedback [...]

In today’s Higher Education supplement there are two articles, here and here, dealing with the replacement to the now defunct RQF process. The replacement is called Excellence in Research for Australia, and will be jointly crafted by the Australian Research Council and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.  These also relate to the [...]

The Queensland State Government has approved the use of Creative Commons licences for intellectual property generated by its departments.  This came about as part of A Government Information open access and use strategy and is expected to be a precursor to the Australian Federal government following with a Creative Commons licences for data generated at [...]

Moving overseas for work is something many Australian librarians want to do. It’s a wonderful chance to learn about libraries overseas and to be immersed in another culture. Whether for a few months or a year or more, there’s a few steps you can take to make your the moving process easier. Get your qualifications [...]