The 75th Annual World Library and Information Congress wrapped up last Thursday in Milan, Italy and I was thrilled to be able to attend for the second time. This year, with all the first timer anxieties out of the way the conference for me personally was an exciting and successful one. This year as well [...]

Fun, engaging, and useful – Mash Oop North, held today at the University of Huddersfield managed to combine all three. Originally aimed at librarians exploring mashups in the UK’s North, the event sold out in 24 hours (world record?) and attracted around 70 librarians and affiliated types from around the country. As one does, I [...]

More than 40 Australians attended the annual IFLA Congress which wrapped up in Quebec City, Canada, on Thursday. I was thrilled to be able to attend for the first time and see what happens when more than 3300 librarians from around 150 countries get together. As a member of IFLA’s staff, I worked behind the [...]

A few months ago, I wrote about taking off for a fantastic adventure and moving overseas to take up a short-term role in the Netherlands. My time in Europe is nearly over and I will be returning to librarianship in Australia in a few weeks. Whether you are returning from time in another sector, country, [...]

With possibly a record contingent of Australians in Anaheim (about 20!), this year’s ALA Annual was a great one to attend. My last ALA was in New Orleans in 2006, so it was great to attend for a second time and not be so overwhelmed by the largeness of everything. ALA is notoriously difficult to [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald is today reporting that Leichhardt Public Library, located in Sydney’s Inner West, has cancelled a planned exhibition about Israel and Palestine – “Al-Nakba”, a pictorial exhibition about Palestine and Israel,  should have  opened at Leichhardt municipal library last Friday. But after the police visit on Thursday night, it was suddenly cancelled the next [...]

Librarians in research and academia are keeping a close eye on changes to Research Assessment under the new Government. Michael Jubb from the UK based Research Information Blog has a post about how the new Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), replacing the Research Quality Framework (RQF) compares to what’s happening in the UK – [...]

Moving overseas for work is something many Australian librarians want to do. It’s a wonderful chance to learn about libraries overseas and to be immersed in another culture. Whether for a few months or a year or more, there’s a few steps you can take to make your the moving process easier. Get your qualifications [...]

It’s election season for ALIA, with votes for directors and president-elect to the board of elections due by April 9. Time to update your address if you haven’t already! There’s a number of good candidates running this year, and in a change from the past there’s more opportunity for candidates to lay out their goals [...]

Recently, I mentioned that one of the nifty things you can do with Yahoo! Pipes is auto-translate blogs and I’ve talked a bit before about finding Japanese blogs. This is really handy if you want to subscribe to non-English blogs. Not only will this give you a different perspective on the news we are all [...]