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This month in Australian library blogland - May 2007

Posted June 2nd 2007 @ 12:52 pm by tango

Wow another month has flown by and its been busy, busy, busy throughout Australian library blogland.
The month began with LINT getting into the spirit of Australian Library Week by running a competition which started off as Get creative in May and soon became Your Library in 2010. Although we only had a few entries [...]

Derek Whitehead, Vice President elect of ALIA, LINTerview.

Posted May 9th 2007 @ 5:16 pm by Kathryn Greenhill

Derek Whitehead is currently Director, Information Resources and University Copyright Officer at Swinburne University of Technology. He is Vice President Elect of ALIA and was conferred with a Fellowship of ALIA in 1995.
That’s not what impressed me when I was digging around for an introduction for this LINTerview . I’m impressed that he’s obviously [...]

this month in Australian library blogland

Posted March 31st 2007 @ 4:26 pm by Morgan

March 2007 was quite a busy month in Australian library blogland. Various RL library events have blogged about, such as the L2 Unconference in Melbourne. Jessamyn West’s visit to Australia had quite an impact in the Aussie blogosphere, and was blogged by CW, techxplorer, Kayo and Sputty. Australian LIS bloggers have played a role in [...]

Getting buy-in for Library2.0 ideas

Posted March 22nd 2007 @ 9:02 pm by Kathryn Greenhill

A casual conversation around our thali table resulted in this experimental post.
We were discussing how to get staff and/or management to support (or even pay attention to) initiatives like internal blogs or a Flickr account for a library or podcasting. We all had a lot to say and were rather, well, passionate about it.

We’d like [...]

The carnival’s back in Oz

Posted February 15th 2007 @ 5:15 pm by Peta Hopkins

The Carnival of the Infosciences #65 is coming to Inn0vate next week.
The Carnival is a weekly weblog post that endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics related to the wide world of Library and Information Science. So, if you’ve read a blog post that’s worth sharing with the carnival groupies, send it [...]

Library Lovers’ Day

Posted February 12th 2007 @ 8:40 am by Peta Hopkins

It’s Library Lovers’ Day on Wednesday the 14th Feb.
 
 Sue Hutley, ALIA Excecutive Director reminds us:
Don’t forget to mention Library Lovers Day on your blog this week and link to the website at  http://www.librarylovers.org.au.   Please feel free to use the logos etc from the Great Ideas page.
The interactive chocolate box competition will run from Monday to [...]

The Distant Librarian: Survey: Blogs in Academic Libraries

Posted January 12th 2007 @ 11:13 am by Peta Hopkins

Paul Pival, The Distant Librarian, brings to our attention a survey exploring the uses of blogs in academic libraries.
You can take part and then see the responses to date.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=773202839763
There are some great ideas for marketing a library blog in the results. 

Four Libblog secondary resources

Posted January 11th 2007 @ 11:10 am by Kathryn Greenhill

Want to pretend to be ridiculously well read in the biblioglogosphere, WITHOUT wading daily through 200+ feeds in your aggregator? Want to check whether anyone has already blogged about a topic before you blog about it, so it doesn’t look like uncritical me-tooism? Here’s some resources.
Resource One: The Australian Library Blogs page here at librariesinteract.info.

List [...]

Hey Jude! Congratulations

Posted December 18th 2006 @ 8:59 am by Kathryn Greenhill

Judy O’Connell is an Australian Librarian whose blog Hey Jude! won the International Edublog Award in the “Best Library or Librarian Blog” category, announced last night. Congratulations.
Judy is Education Officer, Library & Knowledge Management, with Catholic Education, working with 55 primary and 22 secondary schools in the Western region of Sydney. She is also Vice-President [...]

Meet VLINT

Posted November 27th 2006 @ 11:20 pm by Kathryn Greenhill

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 [...]

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