If you have missed this earlier, here’s the news and if you knew already, here’s an update. On February 25th, 2011, the National Library of Australia officially launched the Australian Women’s Weekly digital archive on Trove. NLA has digitised all available issues of this iconic magazine from 1933 to 1982, with permission from Australian Consolidate [...]

Now that you are all returned from Online, its time to start thinking about the next big thing – VALA 2012. The call for papers was opened at the Online conference, but details are now available online at the VALA Website. The theme is eM-powering eFutures, with lots of topics to work with. Many topics [...]

Open Source software now has to be considered as part of any Australian government agencies ICT procurements, as of March 2011. Australian Government – Department of Finance and Deregulation – Open Source Software Policy. It will be interesting to see which agencies (if any) will take implement Open Source solutions and which ones they will [...]

Sometimes, its the simple messages that say the most. A good example is this new video from the Finnish Library Association. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Yes, its that time of year again, time for Round 6 of Library Day in the Life. On Monday 24th January 2011: “Any one who works in a library can participate. You may share your day (or week) on your blog, Twitter, Flickr and/or YouTube (or any other way you choose. If you have none of [...]

Its Day 3 of 2011 so if you haven’t already started, you’re late! Daily Image 2011 on Flickr invites you to document your life over the year, with an image per day. So what’s it all about and why? (the following is blatantly lifted from Kathryn’s blog – Librarians Matter) WHAT? One photo/video/drawing each day [...]

Fresh from the press, a leaked presentation to Yahoo’s internal staff, has shown that amongst other things, they will be shutting down delicious, the pioneering social bookmarking website. Yahoo has laid off quite a few staff of late and as a result is consolidating its products: shutting down some, merging others and putting their emphasis [...]

And here’s the 2010 National Library of Australia staff Christmas party event: “An interpretation of copyright law – Puttin’ on the Writs”. You can also check their very entertaining, 2009 event at You Tube.

Somehow we missed it. Last Friday, 10th December was Melvil Dewey’s birthday. The man whose name is vaguely familiar, even to non-librarians, was born 159 years ago on that day. Although I am not a cataloguer, I can very much appreciate the magnitude of what Dewey produced. When visiting OCLC in 2007, I was thrilled [...]

These reports were produced a little while ago, but they are worth the look. The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) produces the IFLA World Report a biennial series that reports on the state of countries of the world relating to freedom of information, freedom of expression and other related issues. So I checked out [...]