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 [...]
…and the conference season is upon us once more. First cab off the rank is Beyond the Hype in Queensland (rego closes in a couple of days, draft programme announced) on Feb 1-2, very closely followed by VALA on Feb 5-7 in Victoria. Plus there’s a bunch of Calls for Abstracts (CFA) out at the [...]
28th March 2008 is the deadline for papers to be submitted for the 2009 ALIA Information Online conference. Next year’s conference will be held on the 20-22 of January at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The organisers are looking for practical and researched papers as well as case studies on topics such as digital rights [...]
Merry Christmas everyone!As the year draws to a close, there are just under 12 months left till the exciting and innovative ALIA New Librarians Symposium, to be held at CQ Functions, Melbourne. The dates for this event are Friday December 5 to Saturday December 6, so mark them in your diary. It will [...]
If you are interested in new technology and where it fits into our libraries, then there are two events in early February that you shouldn’t miss. Today (Friday, 30 November) is a significant deadline for both.
VALA - the Victorian Automated Libraries Association - holds their biennial conference in at the Melbourne Convention Centre from [...]
As Kathryn mentioned on her blog, we are running a survey on group blogging, the results of which will be used for our paper at VALA2008.
If you contribute to a librarian or library group blog, we want to know what motivates you, how it started, and how you keep it going. Here are some of [...]
Dreaming08 will be the first major ALIA conference to be held in a remote area of Australia. Alice Springs is the place, and you can see that famous Alice Springs resident, Fiona O’Loughlin encouraging us all to attend in a video on the ALIA conference pages.
ALIA members will have the reminder in their inboxes, that abstract submissions [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2007
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Library2.0 UnconferenceLibrary2.0 - using Web 2.0 social networking tools (blogs, wikis, feeds, podcasts, virtual reality, instant messaging, LibraryThing, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life etc) in Libraries….
State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place
South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland
On the day before the unconference, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation ICT Working Party is [...]
Friday, September 28, 2007
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Australian Blogging Conference"This will be an unusual conference. We generally won’t have speakers, panels or an audience. We will have discussions and sessions, and each session will have a discussion leader. " — website…
Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
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, aka Sean [...]
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