Paul Hagon wowed us at VALA2010 with his presentation on his experiments with images in the National Library’s collection. Find out some of his other intriguing ideas in this interview by Michael Stephens at ALA Tech Source. Paul discusses the use of location data and mobile applications. Mash Ups & Mobiles: A Conversation with Paul [...]
History Magazine has a ‘reprint’ of a 2001 article on the history of libraries online which is worth a read if you need to refresh your memories on the long and mostly illustrious timeline of libraries. It’s been years since I seriously read anything about the history of libaries and I found a few interesting [...]
IzRock’s Joseph (I think that’s his identity) and his mate Rene travel from Sydney to Canberra to visit the National Library of Australia to deposit zines and art books. Their minds are boggled by the size and scope of the NLA’s archiving activities. Check out the photo essay.
ALIA has aligned itself with Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo to present a statement on Internet filtering. You can read Core Principles for Effective Action for a Safer Internet on the ALIA site. As one tweeter put it… @katiedatwork smart partnering and a strong stance: http://www.alia.org.au/internetfiltering/ seriously impressed, @ALIANational.
Libraries Interact writers and friends will be covering VALA 2010 using CoveritLive. Prior to the main event, is the OCLC mashathon. A few of us are attending and our tweets and comments can be viewed here, so you can follow along as we discover a variety of OCLC-provided APIs, including the WorldCat Search API, led [...]
Have your say to help shape Australia’s cultural future. The Commonwealth Government has established a web forum to gather our ideas for the development of a national cultural policy. A discussion framework is available on the site as well as a transcript of Peter Garrett MP’s address to the National Press Club, in which he [...]
In September a program of regional meetings for ALIA members was conducted to gather members’ input to guide the professional organisation. The consultation focussed on lobbying and advocacy, local issues and reviewing outcomes of the 2008 topic – professional development. The reports from the regional meetings are now available on the ALIA website. Just a [...]
Last year we reported that the National Library of Australia’s newspaper digitisation project had kicked off and that one of its features was that users could correct mistakes in the optical character recognition process. A review of this crowdsourcing has been available for some time, but only just came to my attention via eGov.au Rose [...]
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