Reading Sharon McGuinness’s article in Incite (v.29, 5 May 08 p. 12) about teacher librarians using email and blogs to participate in online book discussions with classes of children from their schools, I decided to get online and take a look at what they’ve been getting up to. I found the Wilfrid rap blog in [...]

Neil Godfrey’s blog has been quiet for awhile, but it seems he is back and busy reflecting on repositories and metadata. Many will not find repository metadata terribly exciting, but Neil’s writing is very accessible and if you are new to repositories and attempting to come to terms with metadata requirements his metareflections posts are [...]

September is a lovely time of year to visit Brisbane.. And this September, you can attend the Open Access and Research Conference and hear speakers on topics such as evolving publishing models, repository management, e-Research, policy development, and legal and technical issues.
Early bird registration is available until the 25th of July. The conference will be [...]

This week the new-look ARROW Discovery Service was launched featuring faceted browsing, tag clouds and access to more statistics such as the most popular authors and institutions.  The ARROW Discovery Service includes metadata records harvested from institutional research repositories across Australia and from the Australasian Digital Thesis Program.
Faceted searching enables results to be refined by [...]

Today is the first day of Information Awareness Month. The ‘month’ is a collaborative event supported by Australian Library & Information Association, Records Management Association Australia, the Institute of Information Management, the Australian Society of Archivists, the Health Information Management Association of Australia, the Public Record Office Victoria, and the National Archives of Australia. Its [...]

Another professional development opportunity at the State Library of Queensland. And it’s free too.
Power to the people through public access computing: a presentation and workshop by Dr Karen Fisher
Dr Karen Fisher – Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Karen’s research and teaching focus is information behavior (social and cognitive aspects of how [...]

Do you have 40 minutes for some free professional development? You can attend Peter Morville’s presentation on search patterns for the IA (Information Architecture) Summit. The slides and audio are available from SlideShare and showcases innovative search interfaces and features.

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The Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) has released its position statement on the coverage of cataloguing in courses providing an initial qualification in library and information management.
The statement including an extract from the Educational Policy statements of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services is available from the ACOC site.  This extract contains a [...]

Thanks to Joanna for bringing this to our attention. Holdings of Australian libraries who are contributors to the Australian National Bibliographic database are now appearing in Worldat search results. I have been waiting for this for quite some time now. It’s time to start thinking about possibiliites for using this data in the WorldCat context [...]

Back in September 2006, Gillian Hallam asked us all to contribute data for the Nexus survey, to discover more about the Australian LIS workforce. Nexus 2 has arrived and the aim of this survey is to gather data from institutions on workforce planning, staff development policies and practices.
If you are not a library manager, check if [...]