According to Penny Carnaby, National Librarian and Chief Executive, of the National Library of New Zealand, the “New Generation National Library of New Zealand will be a library that never sleeps”.
The building will be redeveloped to increase accessibility to the building and its contents, increase the building’s internal legibility (does that mean it will be [...]

The Live Search team at Microsoft recently announced that they are winding up their Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects.
“Given the evolution of the Web and our strategy, we believe the next generation
of search is about the development of an underlying, sustainable business model
for the search engine, consumer, and content partner. For example, [...]

Yes, this is the last Carnival of the Infosciences (COTI). Chadwick put out the call for a new COTI administrator and no one answered the call. And would-be hosters were scarce with several carnivals being rained out in recent times. Now is the time to say farewell. Libraries Interact is very chuffed to be hosting [...]

Last year for Library and Information Week (LIW) we asked you for your visions of a library in 2010. You might like to revisit those posts to see what we were thinking a year ago…
This year we are going to celebrate by hosting a Carnival of the Infosciences. The carnival has not been held since [...]

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 [...]