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 [...]
The entire library community knows about this bit:
The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm.
But [...]
Expressions of interest are now open for Information Online 2009 - one of Australian libraryland’s two techie conferences. It happens biennially in Sydney, alternating with VALA in Melbourne.
Another date to add to your diary - 20 - 22 January 2009. The call for papers deadline is 28 March 2008
(Just an aside about [...]
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