Just in case you want to be a Cool Librarian too, here’s some information about a YouTube competition for the best love song about a favourite book and/or author.
Why should you tell your library community about this? Well, the winner gets to divide the USD5000 with a library of his or her choice.

Gale announces a [...]

Apologies to the NSLA , I got my facts wrong in the last post (The Big Bang: Creating the new library universe ). Caused by reading an email too quickly.
The Big Bang document that I mentioned was actually a preliminary paper from July 2007, designed to stimulate discussion as NLSA worked toward [...]

I didn’t make up the title - it’s an Exposure Draft produced by National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA). (PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT FOOT OF THIS POST )
It is a look into how these libraries will cope with future service demands and encourage “flexibility, rapid response and innovation within the library sector”. It is just [...]

The Western Australian Library Unconference is on again this year. This year the theme is : Library 2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty. We hope to include half a day of small hands-on workshops and a “technology petting zoo” with gizmoes and gadgets to fiddle with.
DATE: Friday 22 August 2008
TIME: 9:30am - 5pm
VENUE: State [...]

Last night, the 2008 Info Tubey awards were announced. This is the equivalent of the Oscars for Library clips that are featured on YouTube.
I liked this “Amazing Race” style clip about how to find information in the University of Ottawa Morisset Library. I think it’s the music that makes it so compelling to me.
The Amazing [...]

If you read library blogs - well, other than librariesinteract.info - you may have wondered what some of these library bloggers look like.
Cindi Trainor made a series of portraits of librarians while she was at the recent Computers in Libraries conference in the US. Recent visitors to Australia, Michael Stephens and Helene Blowers , [...]

Are you attending Beyond the Hype: Web 2.0 or the VALA conference? Would you like to share what you see and discover with other library folk? We’d love it if some readers would become conference correspondents for these events.
Or maybe you have something interesting happening in your library that you want to share? An event? [...]

Commoncraft have released Online photosharing in Plain English . Enjoy.

Whether or not you are comfortable with the term Library 2.0, it does have some useful ideas to offer your library.
Here’s ten Library 2.0 resolutions to add to your list for 2008.
1. Find out more about your users.
It all starts with them. So many new tools, offering so much new promise - how do [...]

If you are interested in new technology and where it fits into our libraries, then there are two events in early February that you shouldn’t miss. Today (Friday, 30 November) is a significant deadline for both.
VALA - the Victorian Automated Libraries Association - holds their biennial conference in at the Melbourne Convention Centre from [...]