It’s that time of the year:  #blogjune is about to start!  For the next month, dozens of library folk will be posting something to their blog (be it commentary on the state of information science or photos of a delicious lunch) every day. If you’re one of them, Kate Freedman has offered to compile a [...]

It has been a long time since I last contributed to the Libraries Interact blog. In that time I’ve changed jobs a number of times and I am now working as a Senior Software Engineer for the Serval Project. The goal of the Serval Project is to write software that supports communication in the absence of mobile [...]

As a college student, academics libraries are a goldmine of free information and research tools.  I love libraries for helping me survive college, but I never thought data on a library’s resources could be all that interesting. I recently discovered an online tool that completely changed my mind. This academic libraries search tool, by FindTheBest, [...]

For several years now I have observed the increasing success of the Virtual International Day of the Midwife (an online conference for midwives) — Sarah Stewart’s “baby” so to speak. Now there is one for anyone interested in the library world. Library 2.012 Worldwide Virtual Conference October 3 – 5, 2012. It is a free [...]