I didn’t make up the title – it’s an Exposure Draft produced by National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA). (PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT FOOT OF THIS POST ) It is a look into how these libraries will cope with future service demands and encourage “flexibility, rapid response and innovation within the library sector”. It is [...]

The Western Australian Library Unconference is on again this year. This year the theme is : Library 2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty. We hope to include half a day of small hands-on workshops and a “technology petting zoo” with gizmoes and gadgets to fiddle with. DATE: Friday 22 August 2008 TIME: 9:30am – [...]

Recently I stumbled across this post on the ABC Unleashed website by Lucy Saunders. It presents an interesting way at looking at issues that we’ve posted about before [1] [2] [3] [4]. From the post: Enjoy your unfiltered internet access while it lasts. As we speak, the government is hard at work building a device [...]

Another professional development opportunity at the State Library of Queensland. And it’s free too. Power to the people through public access computing: a presentation and workshop by Dr Karen Fisher Dr Karen Fisher – Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Karen’s research and teaching focus is information behavior (social and cognitive [...]

Do you have 40 minutes for some free professional development? You can attend Peter Morville’s presentation on search patterns for the IA (Information Architecture) Summit. The slides and audio are available from SlideShare and showcases innovative search interfaces and features. | View | Upload your own Go to the slideshare page if you want to [...]

Adobe has joined the ranks of online image editors by launching their new free service, Adobe Photoshop Express beta.  It offers crop and rotate, correct, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup and much more, making it a direct competitor to services such as  Picnik and Phixr. It also offers photo sharing and online galleries, which brings it [...]

The results are in! Jan Richards – Manager Central West Libraries has been elected to Vice-President/President elect. Michelle Brennand – Manager Library and Heritage Services City of Wanneroo and Helen Partridge – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology have been elected as Directors by ALIA members and Phillip Keane -  Head, [...]

The Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) has released its position statement on the coverage of cataloguing in courses providing an initial qualification in library and information management. The statement including an extract from the Educational Policy statements of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services is available from the ACOC site.  This extract contains [...]

Last night, the 2008 Info Tubey awards were announced. This is the equivalent of the Oscars for Library clips that are featured on YouTube. I liked this “Amazing Race” style clip about how to find information in the University of Ottawa Morisset Library. I think it’s the music that makes it so compelling to me. [...]

If you read library blogs – well, other than librariesinteract.info – you may have wondered what some of these library bloggers look like. Cindi Trainor made a series of portraits of librarians while she was at the recent Computers in Libraries conference in the US. Recent visitors to Australia, Michael Stephens and Helene Blowers , [...]