Heads up for an innovative professional development opportunity – the inaugural Intelligent Information Symposium, to be held in Sydney on 3rd and 4th May 2012. The 1.5 day program is designed “so delegates can interact with speakers and vendors who have backgrounds in social media, taxonomy, information and records management, research, knowledge management, mobility, information [...]

Recently, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) at the University of Phoenix Research Institute released their report – Future Work Skills 2020. IFTF is renowned for its work using advancing foresight methodologies and use a range of techniques, including using gaming to crowd-source foresights. This report examines key drivers of change that will change the [...]

Yes its back yet again!  Library Day in the Life Round 8, will run from Monday 30th January to Sunday 5th February. You can share a day, days or your whole librarian week, through blogging, tweeting, pictures, video or however else you are inspired. To participate, register at the Library Day in the Life wiki [...]

ALIA has announced the Board for 2012. “In accordance with its Constitutional requirements the ALIA Board called for nominations for three upcoming Director vacancies and one Vice-President (President elect vacancy). Sufficient nominations were received to fill the vacancies but insufficient for an election to be held.” The new ALIA Board members for 2012 are: Vice [...]

As many of us are back at work, its time to consider what the New Year is going to bring to our libraries. And as VALA 2012 is fast approaching, its only appropriate that we look at tech trends. Mashable recently listed its 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012.  They are: Augmented reality Micro-payment [...]

The winners of the 2011 Edublog Awards have been announced. Some of Libraries Interact’s friends were nominated and we congratulate them on this amazing honour. Check out the winners and runner ups – I am sure you’ll find something to add to your feed reader.

If you are going to be in Melbourne for VALA, then you have to stick around for Library Camp Australia, which is happening the day after VALA finishes – Friday 10th February. Registrations are open now, so get in quickly so you don’t miss out on what is going to be an awesome day!

The Hon. John Cain – former Victorian Premier and current President of the Library Board of Victoria, yesterday announced the new CEO for the State Library of Victoria. The appointment comes in the wake of the departure of Ann-Marie Schwirtlich, who has taken on the role of Director General of the National Library of Australia. [...]

ALIA has announced that Sue Hutley has resigned as Executive Director of ALIA, to take up the role of Director: Collections and Access at the Queensland State Archives. All of us here at Libraries Interact send our sincere thanks to Sue, for her dedication and hard work for our professional association and for all of [...]

It seems the future of libraries, particularly public, is dependent on sponsorship and partnerships. However, it also seems to be a double-edged sword, where the benefits of such arrangements could also cause harm to the parties involved. Most recently, the British Library is under fire for including a link to Amazon in its catalogue. The [...]