The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released its Perspective on Culture March 2011 report, Library and Archive Attendance. The outcomes are reinforced by data in the ABS report 4114.0 – Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events, Australian 2009-10. Some of the outcomes of note were: an attendance rate of 34% of the population [...]

Thank you very much to everyone who entered our “make our library camp logo” competition. Congratulations to the winner, Adrian Gould. He is now our first official attendee at Library Camp Australia. He also wins our gratitude and a fabulously creatively crocheted Thingie from Kim Tairi. We will open registrations for the event soon. To [...]

The 2011 Library Journal Movers and Shakers have been announced. There are quite a few familiar names spread through the lists of fifty innovators, community builders, tech leaders, marketers, advocates and change agents, who have been recognised for their “extraordinary work to serve their users and to move libraries of all types and library services [...]

Libraryhack is a mashup and apps competition being held in May 2011 and is a key project outcome from the NSLA Re-imagining Libraries project – Community Created Content. Libraryhack aims to encourage the creative and innovative re-use of library data and digital content from Australian and New Zealand libraries.       Have you got [...]

It’s been a long time since we published a LINTerview, but last week Jo tweeted about a staff award her team had won, and one tweet led to another and to a blog post… Jo is Youth Outreach Librarian at Logan Library Service in Queensland.  Logan has 280,000 residents, 63 suburbs, 9  libraries spread across [...]

If you have missed this earlier, here’s the news and if you knew already, here’s an update. On February 25th, 2011, the National Library of Australia officially launched the Australian Women’s Weekly digital archive on Trove. NLA has digitised all available issues of this iconic magazine from 1933 to 1982, with permission from Australian Consolidate [...]