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 [...]
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 did you know [...]
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 [...]
Happy Blog Day 2007.
Here’s five blogs that have been going for less than a year, that I find interesting:
Mobile Technology in TAFE - Sue Waters is a passionate addict of new technologies and combines her job of finding out about e-learning, m-learning and Web2.0 with that of lecturing in fish farming. Right now she is [...]
It’s a year since the last Blog Day, where we shared with you some of our favourite new blogs. (Yes, librariesinteract.info has already had its first birthday with a few friends and a birthday cake at home. )
Tomorrow some of us will be sharing 5 blogs we find interesting. If you’d like to join in, [...]
More Commoncraft goodness.
Social bookmarking in Plain English (or.. find out how to use del.icio.us )
Did anyone get into work today, only to be asked “Did you see that librarian on Australian Idol last night - do you know who it was?”.
Getting a bit Perez Hilton-y here, the lint spies can reveal that it is Andrew Finegan, who works as Reference Librarian at Darwin City Council Libraries. Same guy [...]
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