Adobe has joined the ranks of online image editors by launching their new free service, Adobe Photoshop Express beta.  It offers crop and rotate, correct, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup and much more, making it a direct competitor to services such as  Picnik and Phixr.

It also offers photo sharing and online galleries, which brings it into [...]

The results are in!
Jan Richards - Manager Central West Libraries has been elected to Vice-President/President elect.
Michelle Brennand - Manager Library and Heritage Services City of Wanneroo and Helen Partridge - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology have been elected as Directors by ALIA members and Phillip Keane -  Head, [...]

A new article, Online Predators and their victims in the journal of the American Psychological Association, examined fears of internet predators and concluded that they are myths. Based on three US surveys conducted by the authors, from the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, they found that internet-related sex [...]

Random House Audio has announced that “it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.” (from Boing Boing)
Random House Audio  provides downloadable audio to popular Random House print titles, as well as titles from other publishing houses.  Their audio is available through iTunes, Audible and eMusic.
“In the [...]

A report in The Age newspaper earlier this month indicated that the new Federal Government has announced that the Software filter produced for Australian families and able to be downloaded for free has failed to reach expectations and is therefore under review.
$85 million was spent on the filter, which was hacked by a 16 year [...]

The Queensland State Government has approved the use of Creative Commons licences for intellectual property generated by its departments.  This came about as part of A Government Information open access and use strategy and is expected to be a precursor to the Australian Federal government following with a Creative Commons licences for data generated at [...]

It’s amazing how fast a 3 day conference can come and go. VALA 2008 is finished and we are looking forward to VALA 2010 in the new Melbourne Convention Centre, being built just across the river from the existing site.

But for the wrap-ups. Kathryn and Con did a great job presenting on [...]

We had a great night out at Bhoj for the first annual Australian Library Bloggers’ Dinner.
In the scenic and relaxing environment of Docklands, on a balmy Melbourne summer’s night, Libraries Interact bloggers (past and present) Kathryn, Peta, CW, snail, Morgan and Michelle were joined by friends Mike, Genevieve and Tania for beautiful food, great conversation [...]

The Copyright Amendment Act 2006 included exceptions making it legal to format shift our movies and music in Australia - eg. could legally copy our CDs to our MP3 players or iPods, tape television to watch later on etc.
The Attorney General’s department has to review the exceptions in the Act after two years.  This review [...]

A few of the Libraries Interact team will be in Melbourne for the VALA 2008 conference from 5th to 7th February and are getting together for dinner. We are keen to catch up with each other and with fellow bloggers and Libraries Interact readers.
So it is with great pleasure that the team from Libraries [...]