The THALI here at Libraries Interact have been receiving a lot of spam lately via some email addresses that we have been using for the administration of the Libraries Interact blog. Early last month I put in place some changes to the way we received email in an effort to reduce the amount of spam [...]

Some of the work that the THALI has put into the Libraries Interact blog is featured in a chapter in the just released Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data published by Information Today, Inc. The chapter focuses on the three plugins that we have developed to extend the Libraries Interact blog and [...]

This morning I’m pleased to report that an updated version of our popular THALI Tags page has been released. This new version is using the Diverse Group Tag Cloud plugin that we’ve been developing. The THALI Tags page is a tag cloud that is generated by using content analysis of posts on our individual blogs, [...]

The topic of Australia’s proposed Internet Filter has been mentioned here on Libraries Interact before. Recently there were three interesting views of the issue that I came across. First was the Web of secrecy article on the Unleashed by Mark Pesce: It began with a blacklist. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has one – [...]

Readers of the Libraries Interact blog will know that we’ve written before about the plans that the Australian Government has for filtering the Internet. Some of us have written about it on our personal blogs, and I’ve collected some news stories and put them up on Delicious. Today I came across this post by David [...]

Long time readers of our blog will remember that we started the Virtual Libraries Interact blog back in late 2006 as a sister site to our blog. Unfortunately due to a number of reasons the Virtual Libraries Interact blog has been languishing for a while and no new posts have been added. It with some [...]

Anyone who has spent any time near the information desk in an academic library has heard about the EndNote software. Those of us who have been looking for alternatives generally choose the Zotero Firefox plugin for a whole range of different reasons. Whilst reading my RSS feeds this morning I came across a post entitled [...]

I originally posted this on the blog at MPOW. I’m interested in the thoughts of readers here at Libraries Interact and in particular anything you may have heard about the debate currently underway in Australia about mandatory open access policies. A recent article on the ars technica website entitled “Congress’s copyright fight puts open access [...]

The WordPress blogging platform is, I believe, one of the most popular platforms for blogging. I know many places use the WordPress.org version (including Libraries Interact), individuals use the WordPress.com version, and some institutions are using the WordPress MU version as well. My place of work is one of them, using it to host a [...]

Yesterday the article “ISP filtering gains momentum” was published in the Online edition of The Australian IT section of The Australian newspaper. We’ve posted about this initiative before. From the article: “As part of the federal budget, the Government allocated $125.8 million for a range of internet security initiatives, including the filtering program, over four [...]