A new website and non-profit organisation has just been launched – Library Renewal “We are amazed by the accomplishments of the organizations currently delivering electronic content – companies like Apple (iTunes), Netflix, Hulu and Amazon – and believe a core question guiding our work must be: “If they can do this so well, why aren’t [...]

Christmas 2010 is likely to be heavy on the gadgets with smart phones, tablets and e-readers being heavily promoted. Is your library ready to take advantage to promote reading, and your ebook collections? There are about 25 library services in Australia offering ebooks via the Overdrive digital media service according to a quick look at [...]

The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa annual conference is on again and this time it’s a special centennial conference in beautiful Dunedin, at the University of Otago. Want to follow the action? A Coveritlive session has been set up with coverage starting 8am (NZ time) Monday 29th November. If you just want [...]

  Benjamin Wheal from the South Australian Library & Information Network (SALIN) Committee wrote to tell us about their latest exploit.  He writes…. “We’re a grass-roots, unaffiliated group which creates networking and professional development opportunities for people in the Library sector in South Australia (especially for newer graduates). In 2010 we’re 10 years young. This [...]

This event sneaked up on me this year and was almost over before I noticed. 18-24th of October. “A global event, now in its 4th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.” — http://www.openaccessweek.org/ If you missed it too, here are just a few links I found of interest in [...]

n two days it will be 10/10/10 (10th of October 2010). ALIA is promoting a library top ten lists campaign and has invited anyone to create a list of top 10s. In this set of webslides I’m not sure these are THE top 10, but they are 10 top links to inspire a green library [...]

Today is #followalibrary day. This is a day to show your appreciation for your library by giving it some twitter link love. Look out for posters like the one illustrated here or for a twitter link on library websites. @libsinteract has followed all the Australian libraries that are listed on the @followalibrary/Australia list and this [...]

Trove, the discovery layer for Australian library and digital collections, is now showing access conditions for individual libraries. The benefit of this enhancement is to inform users whether or not they can get access to the collections. Libraries that need to modify the access levels displayed against their holdings can do so through the Australian [...]

Last week saw a horde of librarians descend on Brisbane for ALIAAccess. This is the conference you have when you are not having an IFLA conference. Some of us were unable to attend, although we enjoyed the tweets, or had a left-behind party to console ourselves. The tweets were great, but I’m ready for some more [...]

With our usual love of trying new things we have started playing with paper.li which creates a daily ‘newspaper’ view of tweets. Not only does it gather the tweets but also features the media and content to which they link. Paper.li is in alpha release at present. Check out the widget in our sidebar and [...]