Libraries Interact and friends will be covering VALA 2010 live.

VALA2010 – Tuesday 9th February

The Third Western Australian Library Unconference will be held on Saturday 3 October 2009 at Central TAFE, Royal Street, East Perth. Thank you to Central TAFE for donating the venue.
 
Again we are aiming for it to be no cost to participants – except time, energy, communication, expertise and engagement.
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Registrations for the 100 places will open [...]

I wish that the iPhone didn’t have the word “phone” in its name. I understand *why* Apple decided on that name, but I don’t think of it as a phone. To me it’s a hand-held computer that I use to connect to other people and to run small applications that make my life easier.
It has [...]

Three librariesinteract.info writers are giving papers at the Educause Australasia 2009 conference in Perth this week – Peta, Con and Kathryn. We are even doing a panel session together with our friend Penny Coutas, called Personal Learning Environments: What works for librarians .
Peta and I are live-tweeting the sessions we attend via our [...]

Satisfied with the cost, the vendor’s service and how your users  perceive it when they compare it with the rapidly changing social web? Yes? No?
Add your voice to the confidential 2008 International Library Automation Survey being conducted by Marshall Breeding on behalf of Library Technology Guides .  He is interested in tracking how perceptions have changed [...]

Neil Godfrey, over at Metalogger, has made a detailed comparison of support and functionality for institutional repository solutions,INFORMAL comparison of some institutional repository solutions. It is a great starting point for anyone setting up a repository or wondering whether there is a better solution than what they are currently using.
He explains the comparison like this:

Over the [...]

Following the conference on Open Access and Research held in September in Australia, and hosted by Queensland University of Technology, the following statement was developed and has the endorsement of over sixty participants.
Brisbane Declaration
Preamble
The participants recognise Open Access as a strategic enabling activity, on which research and inquiry will rely at international, national, university, group [...]

Ddin’t make it to Alice Springs for the Australian Library and Information Association’s Dreaming 08 Biennial Conference? Me neither.
I felt like I was *almost* at some of the sessions when I read some of Michelle McLean’s liveblogging from the event on her other blog, the Connecting Librarian .  
Michelle is probably the best liveblogger I [...]

We don’t often reproduce entire posts from other blogs here, but this one justifies it. Let’s add some Aussie content to the Porter / Lee King song!
From Micheal Porter at LibraryMan blog: YOUR Chance to Star in a Libraryland Music Video!!!
From the last post you can see that David and I recorded a snappy little [...]

The School Library Journal in the US is running a “Learning 2.0 / 23 Things” program for …well…school librarians all over the world… All Together Now: A Learning 2.0 Experience . It is being led by Dr Michael Stephens , who has a knack for simplifying the complex in a way that inspires you [...]