If you haven’t already heard about and signed up to this one, you’re either not mobile centric, or not in Australian social media library circles.  And if you’re not, then I recommend you get in there, because so much good goes on there. But that is beside the point. What is ANZ 23 Mobile Things? [...]

Have you heard of the 23 things?  How about the 23 Mobile things?  This updated course is a great way of learning new skills, and new things about old skills. So what is the NZ/Australian Cohort for 23 Mobile Things all about?  Read on. What are the 23 Mobile Things? Twitter Taking a photo with [...]

Although Movers and Shakers is a US Library Journal award, Australia has its fair share of librarians who are innovative and deserve this accolade. With Movers and Shakers now being international, why not nominate those Australian librarians and see that they get this just reward. Nominations for 2013 are now open, but hurry, you only have [...]

Learning for all Public Libraries in Australia and New Zealand conference is now on at the State Library of Victoria. Follow #learn12 on Twitter, or follow tweets below Program Learning for all Public Libraries in Australia and New Zealand

The State Library of Queensland is hosting a forum today with some of my favourite tweeps speaking/participating. How do libraries reassert their identity as providers of balanced and significant information in the age of Google? That’s the question of the day. Follow the hashtag #LiGW2012 on Twitter or you can see them captured as a [...]

IATUL 2012 (Conference of International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries) is on now live in Singapore. Since the time zone is not too different from Australia there should be plenty of timely tweets in our stream to get a feel for what’s going on at the conference. The conference runs until the 7th [...]

For several years now I have observed the increasing success of the Virtual International Day of the Midwife (an online conference for midwives) — Sarah Stewart’s “baby” so to speak. Now there is one for anyone interested in the library world. Library 2.012 Worldwide Virtual Conference October 3 – 5, 2012. It is a free [...]

Heads up for an innovative professional development opportunity – the inaugural Intelligent Information Symposium, to be held in Sydney on 3rd and 4th May 2012. The 1.5 day program is designed “so delegates can interact with speakers and vendors who have backgrounds in social media, taxonomy, information and records management, research, knowledge management, mobility, information [...]

Yes its back yet again!  Library Day in the Life Round 8, will run from Monday 30th January to Sunday 5th February. You can share a day, days or your whole librarian week, through blogging, tweeting, pictures, video or however else you are inspired. To participate, register at the Library Day in the Life wiki [...]

If you are going to be in Melbourne for VALA, then you have to stick around for Library Camp Australia, which is happening the day after VALA finishes – Friday 10th February. Registrations are open now, so get in quickly so you don’t miss out on what is going to be an awesome day!