It’s Library Lovers’ Day. With ebook readers now taking off, what will this mean for the personal library? Many readers love their print collections and agonise over weeding them come time for moving house, or running out of storage space. With ebook purchases we are not ‘buying’ a book in the same sense of ‘sale’ [...]

There is a depressingly long list of libraries threatened with closure in the UK at the end of this video. Listen to their community’s heartfelt pleas to save them. We Love Libraries

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 [...]