Libraryhack is a mashup and apps competition being held in May 2011 and is a key project outcome from the NSLA Re-imagining Libraries project – Community Created Content. Libraryhack aims to encourage the creative and innovative re-use of library data and digital content from Australian and New Zealand libraries.       Have you got [...]

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, [...]

Yes, its that time of year again, time for Round 6 of Library Day in the Life. On Monday 24th January 2011: “Any one who works in a library can participate. You may share your day (or week) on your blog, Twitter, Flickr and/or YouTube (or any other way you choose. If you have none of [...]

Somehow we missed it. Last Friday, 10th December was Melvil Dewey’s birthday. The man whose name is vaguely familiar, even to non-librarians, was born 159 years ago on that day. Although I am not a cataloguer, I can very much appreciate the magnitude of what Dewey produced. When visiting OCLC in 2007, I was thrilled [...]

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 [...]

ALIA Access 2010 is taking place at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1 – 3 September 2010. The 2010 event will challenge the traditional format of ALIA conferences with a focus on making the conference more ‘accessible’ for delegates and vendors. More will be revealed as the planning progresses…… The 3-day multi-sector conference [...]