Due to popular demand, we are doing it all over again!  Some of the Libraries Interact team will be in Melbourne for the VALA 2010 conference and are getting together for dinner. We are keen to catch up with each other and with you, our fellow blog readers, bloggers and tweeters.. So it is with [...]

Having never attended a RAILS (Research Applications in Information and Library Studies) conference before I wasn’t really sure what to expect but with 15 presentations, 20 mins in length I knew I wasn’t going to have time to be bored. Despite having been in libraries nearly 20 years I had forgotten about the research side [...]

On top of the VALATech Boot Camp, VALA will also be holding the L-Plate Series, the details of which have just been announced. This year it will only be 1/2 day long, to be held on Monday afternoon, 8th February, before VALA commences. The program will comprise a series of 1/2 hour overviews, intended to [...]

A new study by CareerCast.Com has rated the Best jobs for 2010. Based on research into 200 positions, investigating environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress, the top ten best jobs were: Actuary Software engineer Computer systems analyst Biologist Historian Mathematician Paralegal assistant Statistician Accountant Dental Hygienist Although librarians didn’t make the top ten [...]

Its on again, Library Day in the Life will begin on Monday 25th January.  This will be round 4 of this project. To recap, the Library Day in the Life Project aims to document a day (or week) in the working life of a librarian.  In previous rounds, this has taken the form of blog [...]

Just in case you have missed them, whilst you are busy preparing to attend VALA in Melbourne in just over a month, the call for papers for the other two big library conferences in Australia is open. ALIA’s 2010 biennial conference was going to be IFLA Brisbane, but with the global financial crisis seeing that [...]