Internet Librarian 2011, with the theme “Revolutionizing the Net with Content, Connections & Conversations”, is heading into its last day at Monterey, California – but its not too late to watch the Live Stream (if you’re a night owl), or follow the live action from the participants views on Twitter. (follow the hash tag #IL2011 [...]

Somehow, I nearly missed this!  Today starts Round 7 in the Library Day in the Life Project. “The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman  of Librarian by Day. Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all over the globe share a day (or week) in their life [...]

We’re in the final stretch of #blogjune for 2011, but our participants are giving their all in this final run to the line and there is plenty more great reading to be enjoyed. So with sincere apologies with Dorothea Mackellar, here is the Sunday 26th to Tuesday 28th summary of #blogjune posts, mashed up into [...]

Life has gotten away from us all, so with apologies, here is the summary for Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st June. The #blogjune posts these days seemed to sum up my week and probably a lot of yours as well. I have been suffering from No mojo, trying to tell myself to Tally ho, but [...]

Once upon a #blogjune, on days 13 and 14 (Monday and Tuesday) in fact, there were five books in Marvellous Melbourne. Or was it a different five books in My Street, Ballarat, Queens Birthday Holiday. Ah well, doesn’t matter. Have you seen was being asked whilst having soup for lunch and considering QR codes in [...]

Wow, a week already completed in the Blog Every Day of June challenge.  Its amazing the breadth and depth of posts coming out – how all our bloggers manage to come up with something new, fresh and interesting every day amazes me. So our Tuesday’s children may not be full of grace, but they have [...]

Salem Press has announced the call for nominations for the 2011 Library Blog Awards. The Library Blog Awards aim “to recognise blogging excellence across the library spectrum.” This year’s vote will be ‘bigger & better” with more judges, more blog categories and a public vote. Judges include Andy Woodworth (Agnostic, Maybe) and Jessamyn West (Librarian.net), [...]

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released its Perspective on Culture March 2011 report, Library and Archive Attendance. The outcomes are reinforced by data in the ABS report 4114.0 – Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events, Australian 2009-10. Some of the outcomes of note were: an attendance rate of 34% of the population [...]

The 2011 Library Journal Movers and Shakers have been announced. There are quite a few familiar names spread through the lists of fifty innovators, community builders, tech leaders, marketers, advocates and change agents, who have been recognised for their “extraordinary work to serve their users and to move libraries of all types and library services [...]

Libraryhack is a mashup and apps competition being held in May 2011 and is a key project outcome from the NSLA Re-imagining Libraries project – Community Created Content. Libraryhack aims to encourage the creative and innovative re-use of library data and digital content from Australian and New Zealand libraries.       Have you got [...]