I don’t know if there was a theme to Friday’s posts. People are certainly writing about interesting topics! Elissa ponders the differences between blogging and academic writing. This is a lesson some writers of library blogs need to learn too… Corin tells us about a photography project he’s working on: 52 Laughs - This project has [...]

I must confess to experiencing some difficulty keeping up with all the posts from Friday – already?? you ask – and so if I miss anyone in this summary, please accept my apologies. It’s the usual case of human operator failure, rather than anything else. The range of topics was definitely impressive. We had posts [...]

Time sure flies when you’re having fun! It’s going to be June soon, and this morning one of the topics of conversation on Twitter was Blog Everyday of June. A group of us did this last year, and it must have made a positive impression on people, since many have opted to do it again [...]

I don’t think there’ve been many posts from the Thali recently. It might be worth reminding readers of the Thali’s existence – basically this is our name for the group of library folk which administers this blog. We’ve been working together as a team since we started this blog way back in 2006. There haven’t [...]

In news just to hand, the lawsuit filed by Thomson Reuters (EndNote) against Zotero has been dismissed. I have three thoughts on this: Thank goodness How many libraries actively promote Zotero for their users? I got this news via Twitter – it’s becoming a really good source for news.

Western Australia’s ALIAWest has joined the blogosphere with Biblia. Billed as “A virtual conversation for librarians in Western Australia”, it hopes to make Biblia (a newsletter , once upon a time – see the newsletter’s archives) “more accessible to today’s generation of library workers”. I look forward to hearing more about ALIAWest events and WA [...]

I think this is my third Blog Day – time flies when you’re having fun! Five blogs that I find interesting? My picks (I’m going to cheat a bit and call them new, even if they’re only new to me): Ockham’s Razor, subtitled musings of the lazyst environmentalyst. Written by Clare, “a librarian doing research”, [...]

Paul Genoni is a senior lecturer in library and information studies at Curtin University of Technology. He has been working as an academic since 1993, and was previously Law Librarian at the University of Western Australia. Paul has published widely in diverse areas including reference, collection management and mentoring. He has a PhD in Australian [...]

Calling all West Australian library folk, and anyone else who’ll be in Perth that day: LIBRARY 2.0 ON THE LOOSE: AN UNOFFICIAL UNCONFERENCE Feel passionate or curious about new library approaches, want to share it with a group of like minded librarians? Come to participate in discussion and presentations about new definitions of content, new [...]

I was debating with myself and the Thali whether or not to post something about the Ning Library 2.0 network here. If you’ve been reading library blogs this past week you won’t have missed it – it seems like everyone’s at least aware of this exciting new space, if not actively exploring it. Still, because [...]