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 [...]

Information Online 2007 is happening in Sydney as we speak! If you’re there and have anything to share we’d love to hear your impressions and insights. Thanks, Michelle, for writing up Day One’s events – see Michelle’s posts on the first, second and third sessions of the day – it certainly looks like there were [...]

I had a great time at the party last night. Although not many of us were there (we missed you snail and Ivan) I daresay those of us who were there enjoyed ourselves. Lorelei Junot, Abbey Zenith, Rocky Vallejo, Cindy Elkhart, JJ Drinkwater and Fleet Goldenberg, all US-based, stayed up to show us around and [...]

Just seen on Senator Andrew Bartlett’s blog: Copyright Bill passes Senate. The senator points to this blog: Weatherall’s Law, for more detail and commentary on the amendments. Related post: Australia’s impending copyright laws.