The Western Australian Library Unconference is on again this year. This year the theme is : Library 2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty. We hope to include half a day of small hands-on workshops and a “technology petting zoo” with gizmoes and gadgets to fiddle with.
DATE: Friday 22 August 2008
TIME: 9:30am - 5pm
VENUE: State [...]

Another professional development opportunity at the State Library of Queensland. And it’s free too.
Power to the people through public access computing: a presentation and workshop by Dr Karen Fisher
Dr Karen Fisher – Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Karen’s research and teaching focus is information behavior (social and cognitive aspects of how [...]

Do you have 40 minutes for some free professional development? You can attend Peter Morville’s presentation on search patterns for the IA (Information Architecture) Summit. The slides and audio are available from SlideShare and showcases innovative search interfaces and features.

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The Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) has released its position statement on the coverage of cataloguing in courses providing an initial qualification in library and information management.
The statement including an extract from the Educational Policy statements of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services is available from the ACOC site.  This extract contains a [...]

Sue Hutley reports on the ALIA Board Blog that a number of submissions for the ALIA Education and Workforce Summit are now available for reading. The summit is invitation only, and will be held on Friday the 28th March. Late submissions can still be made via email, and those in Victoria may be able to [...]

The Call for Abstracts has just gone out for the annual LIANZA conference in New Zealand, to be held in Auckland, 2-5 Nov, 2008. The conference theme this year is: Poropitia - Outside the Box.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts for papers due: 2 May 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2008
Confirmation of format of presentation: 14 July 2008
Completed papers [...]

Check the ALIA website for Library and Information Week 2008 news. The dates are 19th May to 25th May. Last year on Libraries Interact we asked for your visions of the library of the future. We’ll have to put our thinking caps on for this year to see if we can come up with some [...]

On Library Lovers’ Day I attended Open Access Collections at Customs House in Brisbane. This was an APSR event held in association with QULOC and the University of Queensland.
I found the presentations very stimulating, especially Peter Murray-Rust’s in which he talked about open data and highlighted some useful sites to investigate further. It [...]

It’s amazing how fast a 3 day conference can come and go. VALA 2008 is finished and we are looking forward to VALA 2010 in the new Melbourne Convention Centre, being built just across the river from the existing site.

But for the wrap-ups. Kathryn and Con did a great job presenting on [...]

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 conversation [...]