You may have thought that our 30 bloggers had run dry by Day 29. Not so! Opinions from an OPL made some observations about the penultimate day, but there were also many more fascinating facts coming forth. The big meme mover was 30 things – those things you have done this month, on top of [...]

Day 22 of the challenge exhibited such a wide range of meme love. You can discover all sorts of interesting thing about our challenge bloggers, through the memes they post on. Check out a Public Librarian, From Melbin, Just girl with shoes, Strawberries of Integrity , Miss Sophie Mac, Rien d’important and Opinions from an [...]

Looking over what happened yesterday, day 15 in the 30 blog posts in 30 days challenge, it looks like there were a few people like me, who were starting to get challenged on the next blog post. But look at what treasures we all came up with! Apart from my blog news at Connecting Librarian, [...]

Wow, we are all still trying to catch our breath over how quickly this idea has taken off and how many people have jumped on board.  As Kathryn posted earlier, you can check out all the blogs and their feeds through Kate’s Net Vibes page. So my highlights for Day 2? I can already see [...]

2012 is the National Year of Reading and will be celebrated year round with events, competitions and much more, organised and sponsored by diverse partners, including libraries, educators, writers, publishers, booksellers, professional associations, politicians and other associated organisations. ALIA is a sponsor and will be launching the National Year of Reading 2012 website – Love [...]

We are very fortunate to be able to welcome a whole team of new writers to the Libraries Interact team.  We look forward to the new and broader perspectives of the library and related worlds that they will offer. But just so you know who they are and where they are coming from, here’s welcoming: [...]

Facebook has released a new feature this past week – connections. Facebook released this feature to enable its users to make more connections, without the hard work of having to search for them. Details of the new features and how they will work with your profile are available at the Facebook blog – if you [...]

Mild panic has ensued on the web, with the announcement that Ning, the customisable social network, will cease its free service as of 4th May 2010. The changes are being made to better serve the current 75% of traffic, which comes to Ning sites that have opted for the paid service. These users will now [...]

Been a busy week in Library Land this week and I have been wishing that I was elsewhere because of it. Firstly, I wanted to be in Washington DC, where the 2010 Computers in Libraries conference was held this week. I was fortunate to be able to attend CIL in 2007, so I know from [...]

Submissions close this Friday, 16th April – for submissions into this Inquiry into “school libraries and teacher librarians in Australian schools”. If you don’t already have a submission in or in process, there is another way to support the need for school libraries and librarians. This from ALIA: “You and your colleagues and friends can [...]