January has been busier than usual with stuff being released and conferences galore including Information Online, RAILS 5, and ALA Midwinter. NLS4 have announced in recent days that most papers are now available, and images have been flowing into their flickr group.

Around the traps, the new issue of the Australian Library Journal has just been released with the following articles:

• Wagga Wagga Womens Wireless and the Web: local studies and new technologies (Amy Heap and Bob Pymm)
• Out of the boot camp and into the chrysalis: a reflective case study (Katrina Macdonald)
• The evidence base: where is it? (Janet Smith)
• Bringing the evidence base to the alcohol and other drugs sector (Jane Shelling)
• Precision with ease: refining thesaurus support for quality health information searching on HealthInsite (Jill Buckley Smith and Prue Deacon)
• The role of libraries in eHealth service delivery in Australia (Sarada Rao)
• Fancy walkie talkies, Star Trek communicators or roving reference? (Ellen Forsyth)

Pew Internet have released a couple of new reports covering: Generations Online in 2009 and Adults and Social Network Websites. Finally, as others have noted, the 2009 Horizon Report has been released.

Lots of reading for the days ahead

update: no sooner had I posted than I came across a mention of an Australian report on Australians’ use and satisfaction with e-government services—2008, published by the Australian Government Information Office.