The Monday Muse is a back after a hiatus and this week we’re doing something slightly different. A few weeks ago, several of us had an email conversation about the parallel importation of books in Australia. What follows is a slightly edited and tidied up version of that conversation.
But first, what is parallel importation? There [...]

This week’s Monday Muse is about the Darien Statements.
At the risk of stating the obvious, Libraries Interact’s Kathryn Greenhill is one of the authors of the Darien Statements. Libraries Interact has no official spokespeople, so it’s not for me or anyone else to say that we collectively endorse it or not, but it’s definitely met [...]

The Monday Muse is a new experiment we’re trying at Libraries Interact. Although comments are very welcome on all of our posts, on the Monday Muse, the comments are the purpose of the post. The plan is that every other Monday, we’ll host a discussion on some topic of interest to Australian libraries.
Today’s topic is [...]

I’m not a huge TV watcher, but there’s something about finding a good blog which reminds me of finding a good TV show. It’s something to look forward to – the next episode or the next blog post. And it’s always a shame when a TV show you liked is cancelled, or when a blog [...]

No round up of April 2007 would be complete without mentioning Deb’s (REAL PUBLIC LIBRARIAN) post, Sex in Libraries, wondering whether erotic, sexually explicit and even pornographic material have any place in libraries.
Of course, pr0n is not the only thing restricted by libraries. Techxplorer has found that some educational institutions have started blocking access to [...]

March 2007 was quite a busy month in Australian library blogland. Various RL library events have blogged about, such as the L2 Unconference in Melbourne. Jessamyn West’s visit to Australia had quite an impact in the Aussie blogosphere, and was blogged by CW, techxplorer, Kayo and Sputty. Australian LIS bloggers have played a role in [...]

Today is International Blog Day.
This day, celebrating the blogosphere, began last year. On the day:
In one long moment In August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs, preferably, Blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves [...]

It has been over two months since the Federal Government announced changes in Australian copyright law, changes which will have an impact on libraries, library users and regular consumers of copyright-protected material, i.e. just about all Australians.
We are still waiting for the exposure draft of the new legislation, according to the Australian Copyright Council, it [...]

One of the purposes of librariesinteract.info is to promote blogging within the Australian library world. If you’re curious about trying out blogging but aren’t sure if you want to invest the time to start one of your own, you might be interested in a stint as a guest blogger here. That way you can get [...]