I’m not a huge TV watcher, but there’s something about finding a good blog which reminds me of finding a good TV show. It’s something to look forward to – the next episode or the next blog post. And it’s always a shame when a TV show you liked is cancelled, or when a blog [...]

Statistically Speaking is the name of the Australian Bureau of Statistics blog for “librarians and other like-minded information professionals featuring the latest information, news, tips and stories relating to the Australian Bureau of Statistics”. It is updated regularly, with about 4 to 5 posts each week, usually highlighting a new or relevant statistical release from [...]

You better hurry, as nominations close 1st August. Why should you care?  I’ve been thinking about how, as a profession, we don’t do enough to applaud librarians’ achievements.  There are librarians doing great things in all departments, across all sectors of libraries and we should do more to applaud them and recognise these achievements. One [...]

Hi All, I thought you might be interested in a new widget called Sprout. (If you have already heard of it, sorry ) It is still in Beta so you can’t use it yet but you can put your name down to be included in the next release, and I asume a bit of testing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently, I mentioned that one of the nifty things you can do with Yahoo! Pipes is auto-translate blogs and I’ve talked a bit before about finding Japanese blogs. This is really handy if you want to subscribe to non-English blogs. Not only will this give you a different perspective on the news we are all [...]

Michael Stephens has announced the dates for his seminars in Australia next February and March 2008, through CAVAL: The Hyperlinked Library: Trends, Tools and Transparency – an Expert Forum with Michael Stephens No doubt there will be plenty of opportunities for TTW readers and fellow bloggers to meet and greet as well!

More and more of our professional development has moved to blogs, wikis, and social software. While this means we are more up to date than ever, we are also at risk of becoming overwhelmed. You might have returned from a holiday, an intense project at work or just realised that your RSS feeds have become [...]

About a month ago I wrote about a new initiative that we introduced, the THALI-Tags tag cloud. This morning an updated version of the site went live. The changes are: Using a new Yahoo! Pipe for the analysis of posts to extract terms; The PHP code used to generate the tag cloud was cleaned up [...]