The #blogjune challenge has started off again. There are no plans to blog every day here, but if anyone wants to try writing a post without setting up their own blog, please register and writings on any LIS topic are welcome. If you want to join in, let @flexnib know so she can add you [...]
I’m a Gold Coaster, and the first I heard about this story was from a tweet about a Library Journal (US publication) article. Queensland, Australia: City Looks to Commercialise #Libraries ow.ly/kt34S via @infodocket Tip: @mattrweaver — Library Journal (@LibraryJournal) April 26, 2013 A short time later I found the article on our local newspaper website [...]
There are lots of interesting things floating around in my RSS feeds, Yammer and Twitter about the role of librarians and MOOCs. Howard, Jennifer; For Libraries, MOOCs Bring Uncertainty and Opportunity, The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 25, 2013). Here’s a quote…. “Ms. O’Brien had one piece of basic advice [...]
The first ‘unglued’ (crowd-funded rights to make a book free to the world in e-format) is available for download under a Creative Commons licence. Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan. Read Jan Holmquist’s article at Tame the Web to learn more about Unglue It.
From Sam Laird at Mashable Tech… “when it comes to encouraging people to embrace the written word, e-readers trump their physical counterparts.” – Are Books Doomed? The Rise of E-Reading [INFOGRAPHIC] But from Dan Turner at UX Magazine… “Reading on an iPad, or a tablet, just isn’t the same as reading a book. And for [...]
The LIANZA annual conference is on right now in Palmerston, New Zealand. Finishes the 26th of September. Follow the hashtag #LIANZA2012, or for those without a twitter account you can follow the Coveritlive session set up by Hana Whaanga. “Ipukarea – Celebrate, Sustain, Transform is the theme of the 2012 LIANZA conference. Ipukarea refers to [...]
An online petition has been created asking the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman and the Ministers to reinstate funding for the Queensland Government Departmental Libraries. It looks like the target of 600 signatures is going to be surpassed. Image by League of Women Voters of California used under a Creative Commons Licence.
Learning for all Public Libraries in Australia and New Zealand conference is now on at the State Library of Victoria. Follow #learn12 on Twitter, or follow tweets below Program Learning for all Public Libraries in Australia and New Zealand
It’s topical in the tropical state, but I don’t have enough time to really pull this together as well as I’d like. From today’s (11 September 2012) p. 5 Courier Mail. Black day for coal jobs: positions slashed as industry reels from price falls and slowing China. This article is accompanied by a table outlining [...]
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