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 morning.
The exhibition [...]

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 -
What’s [...]

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 in [...]

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 reading [...]

As information by or about anyone who spends time on the web increases and fragments, there are several steps you can take to manage your online identity.
Previously, we looked at managing the number of social networks you sign up for. What do you do when you have moved on from your MySpace, Ning, or LinkedIn [...]

Michael Stephens has announced the dates for his seminars in Australia next February and March 2008, through CAVAL:
The Hyperlinked Library: Trends, Tools and Transparency - an Expert Forum with Michael Stephens
No doubt there will be plenty of opportunities for TTW readers and fellow bloggers to meet and greet as well!

From the outside, the roles and functions of librarians can seem very similar from library to library. From the inside, moving between corporate, government, public, law or academic library sectors can be like chalk and cheese. In Australia, librarians tend not to specialise in one sector as much as librarians in other countries, but it [...]

More and more of our professional development has moved to blogs, wikis, and social software. While this means we are more up to date than ever, we are also at risk of becoming overwhelmed. You might have returned from a holiday, an intense project at work or just realised that your RSS feeds have become [...]

As Kathryn mentioned on her blog, we are running a survey on group blogging, the results of which will be used for our paper at VALA2008.
If you contribute to a librarian or library group blog, we want to know what motivates you, how it started, and how you keep it going. Here are some of [...]