The LIANZA annual conference is on right now in Palmerston, New Zealand. Finishes the 26th of September. Follow the hashtag #LIANZA2012, or for those without a twitter account you can follow the Coveritlive session set up by Hana Whaanga. “Ipukarea – Celebrate, Sustain, Transform is the theme of the 2012 LIANZA conference. Ipukarea refers to [...]

An online petition has been created asking the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman and the Ministers to reinstate funding for the Queensland Government Departmental Libraries. It looks like the target of 600 signatures is going to be surpassed. Image by League of Women Voters of California  used under a Creative Commons Licence.

Learning for all Public Libraries in Australia and New Zealand conference is now on at the State Library of Victoria. Follow #learn12 on Twitter, or follow tweets below Program Learning for all Public Libraries in Australia and New Zealand

It’s topical in the tropical state, but I don’t have enough time to really pull this together as well as I’d like. From today’s (11 September 2012) p. 5 Courier Mail. Black day for coal jobs: positions slashed as industry reels from price falls and slowing China. This article is accompanied by a table outlining [...]

  The Library 2.012 virtual conference is less than a month away. There are not many opportunities to attend international conferences that are quite as ‘international’ as this one will be. Presentations in multiple languages and there are keynoters from Brazil, US, Mexico, Romania, China, Singapore and Australia (Kathryn Greenhill), and although the schedule is [...]