Australian Newspapers beta, was recently released and after a short visit to the Courier Mail classifieds of Tuesday 12th April 1864, I can say that the user interface looks great. Users can correct errors in the OCR (optical character recognition) process of scanning the newspapers, add tags, navigate easily between daily editions and pages, and [...]

Several of the Thali are Asus EeePC users. We thought we’d compare our impressions of the eee pc , especially from the perspective of using it in the library environment. But first, what are we talking about?
Asus eee pcs are tiny, ultra-portable, cheap computers. There are now three sizes (7″, 9″ and  10″ or close [...]

Not sure how I missed this one, but a week or so back Tim Spalding of LibraryThing fame put up a call for librarians to lead a project to create an open classification system. Tim’s vision is for a free, modern, humble, collaborativley written and assigned scheme as an alternative to Dewey (and others, but [...]

Last year Indigenous Literacy Day raised over $250,000 to address literacy problems in remote indigenous communities. Wednesday the 3rd of September is ILD 2008. Funds raised on the day through participating
booksellers’ and publishers’ sales, school events and other donations will be put to work at the Fred Hollows Foundation in the provision of literacy [...]

From Wired Campus, comes a report of an e-book design where users can ‘turn the screen’.
Comments on the article suggest that readers are underwhelmed at the possibilities presented by researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of California at Berkeley in a prototype dual-display e-book reader. But the researchers state that “Our users’ [...]

I was catching up on The Chronicle : Wired Campus in my feed reader and found a reference to an article on the AbeBooks.Com site called “Found in Books“.
“Be careful what you use as a bookmark. Thousands of dollars, a Christmas card signed by Frank Baum, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a [...]

Education.au has released their market research report on Educators and ICT Usage. This survey of the use of technology by Australian teachers was commissioned to inform future roles and responsibilities for Education Network Australia (edna). edna is a repository of thousands of online resources for education, training and research.
If you don’t want the whole 108p. [...]

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 [...]