Libraries Interact writers and friends will be covering VALA 2010 using CoveritLive. Prior to the main event, is the OCLC mashathon. A few of us are attending and our tweets and comments can be viewed here, so you can follow along as we discover a variety of OCLC-provided APIs, including the WorldCat Search API, led [...]

As an adjunct to the VALA 2010 Conference, a series of special ‘techie’ sessions is being run under the title of VALAtech Boot Camp. The five sessions will be run over 4 days and include: OCLC API Mashathon Video: Negotiating the Online and Mobile Space Semantic Web APIs Open Source Content Management Systems – Joomla! [...]

ALIA is offering the chance for ALIA members to win a free course placement, in several courses run by ARK, PICs and Richard Sayers.  Courses cover a wide range of topics and locations, including online. Check out the ALIA Courses, Workshops and PD Competitions webpage, for details on the courses supported, the competition criteria and [...]

It’s on again, applications to attend Aurora in 2009 opened on Monday, 15 Sept 2008. Most comments I’ve heard suggest this a great learning opportunity, and particularly beneficial for those with leadership aspirations. ALIA has maintained a list of testimonials.

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 [...]

Leap into Leadership in 2008! What are you doing with your extra day in 2008, February 29? Would you like to spend it participating in an introductory leadership workshop, whilst being exposed to the knowledge and wisdom of many leaders in the library and information industry? A group of fellow Victorian Aurorians have put together [...]

There are now a number of sites which have developed their own ’23 things’ type staff development activities. In many cases these programs are openly accessible and encourage anyone to join in. 23 things This one really got the ball rolling, with a 9-week program for staff at PLCMC. It listed 23 Things (or small exercises) [...]

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 [...]

On behalf of the Organising Committee, we wish to announce that Registration for the ALIA National Library and Information Association Technicians Conference 2007 is now open. The Conference will address key issues affecting the library and information professions in this rapidly changing digital age and offer a stimulating program featuring leaders in their fields of [...]

It’s wonderful to see that so many librarians from Queensland and nearby regions are so keen to learn about the use of emerging technologies to communicate with their clients. Following last year’s sell-out seminar “New Communication Technologies in Libraries”, the QULOC ICT working party arranged a reprise ” Communicating With Clients Using New Technologies”. This [...]