ALIA has announced grants of $500 for public libraries to train Adult Community Education providers in Information Literacy Skills. The funding comes from Adult Learning Australia and aims to improve ACE providers’  information literacy, internet searching and web 2.0 skills. Applications close on the 15th September, so you will have to move quickly on this [...]

The THALI here at Libraries Interact have been receiving a lot of spam lately via some email addresses that we have been using for the administration of the Libraries Interact blog. Early last month I put in place some changes to the way we received email in an effort to reduce the amount of spam [...]

The 75th Annual World Library and Information Congress wrapped up last Thursday in Milan, Italy and I was thrilled to be able to attend for the second time. This year, with all the first timer anxieties out of the way the conference for me personally was an exciting and successful one. This year as well [...]