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.

Thanks to the Librarian In Black for this – a feature on librarianship in The Guardian: “The sheer range and complexity of electronic sources, library leaders say, means librarians have their work cut out keeping workers and the public ahead of the information game.” The article quotes Martin Molloy, president of the Chartered Institute of [...]

Ever attended a virtual Christmas party before? I certainly haven’t, and I hope you’ll join me for my first one – Kathryn and I are hoping to welcome you all to our building in Cybrary City, Info Island, Second Life! When? Wednesday 13 December 2006. 6pm – 8pm WST (this is 1am PST/Second Life time). [...]

ALIA SA recently ran a Blogging 101 session for interested South Australian library folks which was a great success. Attendees were provided with an overview of blogging and how to do it, and from all accounts (see their Blogging Basics 101 blog), everyone had a great time and learned a lot. Kate Sinclair, one of [...]

I have mixed feelings about manifestos, but I really like this one from Laura Cohen – check out A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto. (For what it’s worth, her Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective is one of my new favourite blogs!)

You may be sick of hearing about Web 2.0, and you may have already seen this feature mentioned elsewhere, but for those who haven’t, take a look at The Guardian’s Web 2.0 issue. Interviews with the creators of Bebo, Blogger, Craigslist, Del.icio.us, Digg, Feed Burner, Flickr, Last.fm, Netvibes, Technorati, Wikipedia, WordPress, and Writely. Each person [...]

Sydney 12 October 2006 From Tom Goodfellow. There were around 30 librarians crammed into a small room to hear from Stephen Abram, star of the biblioblogosphere and possessor of a highly impressive CV. The seminar covered a vast amount of ground – rather too much for our 3-hour timeslot, to be honest. I’ll try and [...]

I’m sure many of you will have seen this: Five weeks to a social library, a great course that is the “first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries”. The preliminary program looks great, so if you’d like to participate consider applying [...]