Fun, engaging, and useful – Mash Oop North, held today at the University of Huddersfield managed to combine all three. Originally aimed at librarians exploring mashups in the UK’s North, the event sold out in 24 hours (world record?) and attracted around 70 librarians and affiliated types from around the country. As one does, I [...]

Long time readers of our blog will remember that we started the Virtual Libraries Interact blog back in late 2006 as a sister site to our blog. Unfortunately due to a number of reasons the Virtual Libraries Interact blog has been languishing for a while and no new posts have been added. It with some [...]

If, unlike my avatar, yours has 8000 lindens (about US$30), you can register to take part in the Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums conference. “The purpose of this conference is to provide a gathering place for librarians, information professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about and discuss the educational, informational, and cultural opportunities [...]

I’m giving a paper about Second Life Librarianship for the VALA conference this Tuesday. I’m showing a couple of little movies I’ve made of Info Island and the Australian Libraries Building that I’ll link to when I’ve added sound. Here’s the details Tuesday 5 February 2008   1120 – 1150 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Library 2.0 Kathryn [...]

Our very own Kathryn Greenhill has joined with CAVAL to offer one day workshops in Sydney and Melbourne on Second Life. “Are YOU ready to “fly, teleport and change appearance at will”? Many library users are already leading mysterious double lives, but are Online Virtual Worlds an over-hyped Web 2.0 bubble or the Next Big [...]

As information by or about anyone who spends time on the web increases and fragments, there are several steps you can take to manage your online identity. Previously, we looked at managing the number of social networks you sign up for. What do you do when you have moved on from your MySpace, Ning, or [...]

Couldn’t make it to the discussion of “The Librarians” in Second Life but wish you had? The Transcript is here.

The entire library community knows about this bit: The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm. But did you [...]

The entire library community knows about this bit: The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm. But did you [...]

Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM Library2.0 UnconferenceLibrary2.0 – using Web 2.0 social networking tools (blogs, wikis, feeds, podcasts, virtual reality, instant messaging, LibraryThing, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life etc) in Libraries…. State Library of Queensland Stanley Place South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland   On the day before the unconference, the Queensland University Libraries [...]