interesting article in the Guardian about a guy doing a PHD on Second Life. Snippet below….. Real life crashes into Second Life’s digital idyll Aleks Krotoski Thursday November 30, 2006 It was three weeks ago that my virtual world disintegrated. I had been struggling with a digital littering problem in my Social Simulation Research Lab [...]

public library closures in the UK that is. As I understand, despite parliamentary select committees and numerous initiatives, costs of the library service keep rising, while book stocks are decreasing and the public are becoming disenchanted with their public libraries, and the result has been lots of library closures. This article in the Times last [...]

meeting at RMIT Wednesday OCT 25th, sponsored by the ALIA research commitee Fascinating meeting tonight at RMIT about doing a doctorate, sponsored by the ALIA Research committee with Professor Ross Harvey, Charles Sturt University, Dr Bonna Jones, RMIT University,and Dr Peter Macauley, Manager, Faculty of Education Library Services & Waterfront Campus Library Deakin University. The [...]

Very interesting meeting on Wednesday about RFID. Susan Gately from Hobsons Bay Libraries spoke about the implementation of RFID at Altona Meadows, then Eoin Geaney from 3M gave some facts and figures about the different needs academic, special, public and school libraries have for RFID and a bit of technical discussion then finally Alan Butters [...]