This is an interesting take on Web 2.0, but from a librarian’s viewpoint I found it doubly so.  It’s a video - The Machine is us/ing us.  (which I came across via Stephen Downes) I want to turn the progression of ideas around, though.  Yes the machine is using us, but “we” (and I’d like to [...]

Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year 2006 The Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) and Pledger Consulting Pty Ltd (LinksPlus/Weblinks) have pleasure in announcing the winner of the 2006 Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year Award – Carol Miller from Hamilton Secondary College, Mitchell, South Australia.This national award recognises and honours an exceptional Australian teacher [...]

I watched, with interest, the discussion among school librarians in America after the spate of attacks on schools recently.  They were having to consider locking their libraries.  Obviously school libraries, and probably school buildings, are very different from the ones I’m used to here.  I guess I knew that, but had never considered it in these [...]

http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/ Fri 1st – Sat 2nd Dec 2006 The John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW [Sydney] Announcing the International Keynote Speaker: Joan Frye Williams http://www.jfwilliams.com/ [Proudly sponsored by the National Library of Australia] The NLS2006 committee is pleased to announce our International Keynote Speaker, Joan Frye Williams,internationally recognised library futurist and designer of innovative library services. [...]

I’m sure you were aware of the X and Y and the Millenial Generation, if that is what the Connected Generation (see below) is.  This article presents the Connected Generation in light of 10 “cravings” – useful to us as librarians, as StephenB comments … a worthwhile read for us as we always need to [...]

I’m motivated to post by an article in this month’s Incite, the ALIA news magazine (I can’t link to the article, though, because it’s not included on the net).  The title was “What do an Apple store and a library have in common?”  Interesting that the Future of Public Libraries conference should have the architect [...]

http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/ Fri 1st – Sat 2nd Dec 2006 The John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW [Sydney]   Announcing the International Keynote Speaker:  Joan Frye Williams http://www.jfwilliams.com/   [Proudly sponsored by the National Library of Australia] The NLS2006 committee is pleased to announce our International Keynote Speaker, Joan Frye Williams,internationally recognised library futurist and designer of innovative library [...]

I’m not blogging the conference, nor am I going, unfortunately, but this item caught my attention recently … I thought I’d love to attend, to hear new ideas and celebrate our profession and the people in it..  So perhaps you will be interested, too – either to register (if registrations haven’t closed), or to conduct a similar [...]

Apart from the library bloggers, that is .. 1.  Guy Kawasaki.  I love his writing style and nearly always learn something new. 2.  Stephen Downes.  Enjoy his tone of voice (and, of course the content.  I wish I could read as prolifically, and comment as succinctly as he does).  Actually the link is to his [...]

  Don’t forget to register before October 6 if you want to take advantage of the Early Bird rates. Joan Frye Williams will be the International Keynote Speaker, exploring the ways new service models can help us meet our users’ changing expectations. Proudly sponsored by the National Library of Australia. http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/