Welcome if you’re visiting this blog for the first time after hearing all about it at our recent ALIA Biennial! Feel free to explore what we have here and leave a comment or two if you have anything to say – or just let us know you were here! I’m feeling energised (and tired at [...]

My posts here have been a little scant of late, mainly because I have been preparing for the conference. Now that it’s started, I can hardly believe it. I’m hoping to blog my experiences as much as I can, but I think it’s a rather fine line between spending all my time on a computer [...]

I’ve recently noted a couple of new blogs by Canadian University Librarians. The University Librarian at Simon Fraser University Library, Lynn Copeland, blogs at Distracted Truffle Pig (great name!). The University Librarian at McMaster University Library, Jeffrey Trecziak, is blogging too. Thanks to Michael Stephens for the pointer! Both blogs have started with interesting posts. [...]

I spotted this chart a couple of weeks ago but didn’t manage to get around to looking at it more closely until tonight. Joyce Valenza‘s put together a great chart looking at the quite dramatic differences that have occurred during her thirty years of practice as a teacher librarian. She compares the sorts of information [...]

Just noted: the launch of the official Click 06 Conference Blog. It’s good to see that Click 06 is going to be blogged about – as we also have the Blog the Conf blog, and Tom and Sarah in Sydney will be coming over, and are going to blog their experiences, too. Anyone else? Do [...]

You may have noticed the small orange icons on the right, near the bottom of this blog page, “Feed” and “Comments feed“, and below that an icon with the information “73 readers by Feedburner” (at least as of this evening). This tells me that at least 73 regular readers of this blog are subscribers who [...]

My colleague Sue Grey-Smith will be retiring next year, and I thought it might be a good time to interview her and ask her to share a few insights on our profession. Sue’s worked in a number of different roles within the Library and Information Service at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, including web [...]

Ever wonder how many libraries around Australia are using blogs? What about wikis? Recently I learnt about a great project Chelsea Harper and Kate Watson are working on, which aims to investigate how blogs and wikis are being used in Australian libraries. This project is supported by the Ray Choate Scholarship, an award which “enable[s] [...]

Reading Standing Up  Originally uploaded by timtak. Went and had a browse in the Perth Borders shop last week. When the shop first opened some weeks ago, it seemed like a Very Big Deal and for the first couple of weeks at least, it was always packed. I guess the novelty’s worn off a bit [...]

Have you seen this great post from Meredith Farkas, on Skills for the 21st century librarian? To summarise, Meredith argues that the library schools aren’t really teaching the “big picture” topics, and suggests the following “basic tech competencies” that should be covered: Ability to embrace change Comfort in the online medium Ability to troubleshoot new [...]