This is great. The Auslan version of Feathers for Phoebe by Rod Clement – made available by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) for National Simultaneous Storytime 2011 (NSS).   The simultaneous bit starts at 11.00am AEST today.

Today is the first day of Library and Information Week in Australia and there are plenty of events and initiatives kicking off. ALIA has teamed up with the Wiggles to launch two community announcements to ‘make Australia a reading nation’. Here is one to share with parents of young children and babies.   image by [...]

Last year I asked which libraries were lending downloadable ebooks to their users. During a workshop about ebooks today, a student asked me whether it is common for public libraries in Western Australia to lend out ebook readers, or to have some that they let the public use. I knew of a few libraries, but [...]

Time sure flies when you’re having fun! It’s going to be June soon, and this morning one of the topics of conversation on Twitter was Blog Everyday of June. A group of us did this last year, and it must have made a positive impression on people, since many have opted to do it again [...]