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!

Or at least a venue…. The unorganising committee for #LibCampOz12 would like to welcome and thank The University of Melbourne Library for agreeing to be our venue sponsor. The University is located on the edge of the CBD. It is easily accessible by tram, train and bus and casual parking is available.  The library is [...]

Internet Librarian 2011, with the theme “Revolutionizing the Net with Content, Connections & Conversations”, is heading into its last day at Monterey, California – but its not too late to watch the Live Stream (if you’re a night owl), or follow the live action from the participants views on Twitter. (follow the hash tag #IL2011 [...]

libcampoz the national library unconference which kicked off in Perth and has been held in Adelaide and other States is making its way to Melbourne. I would encourage you to put the date in your calendars. I recently attended Libcampoz (Perth) and had a great time. Participating the unconference was invigorating.  Benefits include: flexibility (choose [...]

Now that you are all returned from Online, its time to start thinking about the next big thing – VALA 2012. The call for papers was opened at the Online conference, but details are now available online at the VALA Website. The theme is eM-powering eFutures, with lots of topics to work with. Many topics [...]

It’s been two days since I returned from Information Online and I woke up from a dream about writing a blog post so here it is. My takeaways from the conference are: Break the rules @thelib – Sarah Houghton encouraged conference participants to be prepared to break some rules in order to deliver the services [...]

The Information Online road train is gathering steam as we type – only a week and a half away. In addition to the official programme, there’s some additional social events: an ALIA Sydney gathering and two #ALIAioc tweetups. Here are the details for each: Date: Monday, 31st January 2011 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Cohibar Location: Cohibar, [...]

The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa annual conference is on again and this time it’s a special centennial conference in beautiful Dunedin, at the University of Otago. Want to follow the action? A Coveritlive session has been set up with coverage starting 8am (NZ time) Monday 29th November. If you just want [...]

Last week saw a horde of librarians descend on Brisbane for ALIAAccess. This is the conference you have when you are not having an IFLA conference. Some of us were unable to attend, although we enjoyed the tweets, or had a left-behind party to console ourselves. The tweets were great, but I’m ready for some more [...]

Over on the Twittersphere we are discussing have a meeting of twitter library folk just prior to #ALIAAccess / @ALIAAccess. @flexnib rightly tweets: #aliaaccess will be one big tweet up However as the conference dinner is Dine-Around, the conference is multi-streamed and we come from all walks of LibraryLand, we may not all get a [...]