The conference program for VALA 2008 is now available on the web. My fellow LINTers may be too modest to blow their own trumpets, but a number of them will be presenting at the conference. Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA Do we remove all the walls?: Second Life librarianship Constance Wiebrands, Curtin University, WA, snail, [...]

Thank-you to everyone who has responded to our poll about what you would like to read here. Quite clearly you want to find out how to do things with 47% asking for more of these types of posts. We will be putting our thinking caps on to come up with some How tos. Why not [...]

Here is your chance to tell us your ideas for content you’d like to read here at Libraries Interact by taking this quick poll. Poll – Take Our Poll Link to Poll If you need more room to tell us about your ideas we are always happy to receive feedback via comments or by email [...]

Today the software that runs the librariesinteract.info blog was upgraded to the latest version. As with any software installation, or upgrade ,odd things may occur. If you notice anything odd please let us know by commenting on this point, or emailing us at librarian [at] librariesinteract.info.

Welcome to the LINT5 LINTerviews. Have you ever met someone in libraryland and thought “I wonder what makes her tick?”. We have. We decided to find our favourite or most interesting library people and ask them questions about what has influenced their time in libraries. To give our interviewees some choice, we send them a [...]

Have you made a comment on this blog which didn’t ever show up? We’d like to know. You know all those ads for viagra and breast enlargments and hot stockmarket tips you get in your email boxes? Well, blogs get them too, in the form of comment spam. Nasty little spambots volley these at our [...]

Just a reminder to drop everything on Wednesday night, slip you avatar into something comfortable and come to the LINT Christmas party in Second Life…6pm to 8pm (WA time), 8pm to 10pm EST. We’ll meet at the Australian Libraries building (Cybrary City 210,70,24. Teleport there now ). Lori Bell from Alliance Library System is getting [...]

The Thali is bringing you another blog: Virtual Librariesinteract.info:blog central for Australian Libraries in Other Worlds . It started as a place to record the nuts and bolts of the Australian Libraries in Second Life project, so LINT wouldn’t get flooded. The scope grew to include Australian libraryfolks’ adventures in virtual worlds such as World [...]

In a recent post Peta outlined some of the new things that had been happening here on LINT. Recently I improved the Australian Library Blogs search and enabled it as an OpenSearch plugin. What does this mean? It means that you can search the list of Australian Library Blogs without visiting the website first. Those [...]

Michael Stephens wants them, Laura Cohen wants them, and LINT wants them too. Librarians want to hear what their leaders think about the profession. Our offer still stands. If you are a library director who would like to write occasionally but not want to manage a whole blog, why not register as a contributor here on librariesinteract.info? [...]