Recently, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) at the University of Phoenix Research Institute released their report – Future Work Skills 2020. IFTF is renowned for its work using advancing foresight methodologies and use a range of techniques, including using gaming to crowd-source foresights. This report examines key drivers of change that will change the [...]

Yes its back yet again!  Library Day in the Life Round 8, will run from Monday 30th January to Sunday 5th February. You can share a day, days or your whole librarian week, through blogging, tweeting, pictures, video or however else you are inspired. To participate, register at the Library Day in the Life wiki [...]

Trying to fill a position in your library or have an internship on offer? Need volunteers to help with a stocktake? From the go-get we have welcomed job advertisements that would interest people who like to read about Australasian Libraryland.  To post one, just join up as a contributor by filling in our online contributor’s [...]

If you’ve tried to check something in Wikipedia in the last hour or two, you’ll probably have seen a blacked out page linking to an explanation of its protest against SOPA – hundreds of other sites are doing similar. It might seem unfair to blackout all these sites worldwide (24 hours without lolcats!) for the [...]

ALIA has announced the Board for 2012. “In accordance with its Constitutional requirements the ALIA Board called for nominations for three upcoming Director vacancies and one Vice-President (President elect vacancy). Sufficient nominations were received to fill the vacancies but insufficient for an election to be held.” The new ALIA Board members for 2012 are: Vice [...]

As many of us are back at work, its time to consider what the New Year is going to bring to our libraries. And as VALA 2012 is fast approaching, its only appropriate that we look at tech trends. Mashable recently listed its 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012.  They are: Augmented reality Micro-payment [...]