It is now possible to create your own ‘book’ of Wikipedia articles and either download it as a PDF, or order a bound copy. That adds a whole new dimension to collection development, and opens up possibilities for creating open educational resources. Help:Books – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Currently only Wikipedia editors can save books [...]

Zotero users wanting to collaborate on reference collections, or access their collections from multiple computers might be interested in this post from Michael Rees describing how he uses Windows Live Mesh with Zotero. If you can’t wait for Zotero 1.5, this might be an option for you. Only for Windows devices so far, Live Mesh [...]

A few months ago, I wrote about taking off for a fantastic adventure and moving overseas to take up a short-term role in the Netherlands. My time in Europe is nearly over and I will be returning to librarianship in Australia in a few weeks. Whether you are returning from time in another sector, country, [...]

Moving overseas for work is something many Australian librarians want to do. It’s a wonderful chance to learn about libraries overseas and to be immersed in another culture. Whether for a few months or a year or more, there’s a few steps you can take to make your the moving process easier. Get your qualifications [...]

Recently, I mentioned that one of the nifty things you can do with Yahoo! Pipes is auto-translate blogs and I’ve talked a bit before about finding Japanese blogs. This is really handy if you want to subscribe to non-English blogs. Not only will this give you a different perspective on the news we are all [...]

As information by or about anyone who spends time on the web increases and fragments, there are several steps you can take to manage your online identity. Previously, we looked at managing the number of social networks you sign up for. What do you do when you have moved on from your MySpace, Ning, or [...]

From the outside, the roles and functions of librarians can seem very similar from library to library. From the inside, moving between corporate, government, public, law or academic library sectors can be like chalk and cheese. In Australia, librarians tend not to specialise in one sector as much as librarians in other countries, but it [...]

More and more of our professional development has moved to blogs, wikis, and social software. While this means we are more up to date than ever, we are also at risk of becoming overwhelmed. You might have returned from a holiday, an intense project at work or just realised that your RSS feeds have become [...]

If you want to see a real life example of a library using a social bookmarking service as a content management system… Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries is using del.icio.us to manage the virtual reference page on their website. Librarians add a bookmark in del.icio.us and give each one tags to assign the link to particular [...]

Thank-you to everyone who has responded to our poll about what you would like to read here. Quite clearly you want to find out how to do things with 47% asking for more of these types of posts. We will be putting our thinking caps on to come up with some How tos. Why not [...]