It’s been a long time since we published a LINTerview, but last week Jo tweeted about a staff award her team had won, and one tweet led to another and to a blog post… Jo is Youth Outreach Librarian at Logan Library Service in Queensland.  Logan has 280,000 residents, 63 suburbs, 9  libraries spread across [...]

Another international linterview, from a pioneer in Library 2.0, a great gal and much appreciated friend. Helene Blowers is the Public Services Technology Director for The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA overseeing both IT and Web Services for the library’s 24 branch locations and 18 websites. During her [...]

Here’s an international linterview….. an interlinterview? Walt Crawford currently works at OCLC and has written many, many carefully crafted books and articles on librarianship, including the monthly e-journal Cites and Insights . He will be looking for a new job in September and his list of places he’d consider include the warmer parts of the [...]

Paul Genoni is a senior lecturer in library and information studies at Curtin University of Technology. He has been working as an academic since 1993, and was previously Law Librarian at the University of Western Australia. Paul has published widely in diverse areas including reference, collection management and mentoring. He has a PhD in Australian [...]

Peter Carter is currently CEO of Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation, a regional public library service operating in the South-East of Melbourne. He has been working in public libraries for just on 30 years which he says is both scary and possibly a little sad. He has a particular interest and experience in automating library services and [...]

Wow another month has flown by and its been busy, busy, busy throughout Australian library blogland. The month began with LINT getting into the spirit of Australian Library Week by running a competition which started off as Get creative in May and soon became Your Library in 2010. Although we only had a few entries [...]

Roxanne Missingham is currently President of ALIA and Parliamentary Librarian, Australian Parliamentary Library. Her enthusiasm for increasing the profile of library services, for library education, and responsible use of technology were apparent in her previous roles as Assistant Director, Resource Sharing Services at NLA, at the CSIRO and the Australian Nature Conservation Agency. She has [...]

Derek Whitehead is currently Director, Information Resources and University Copyright Officer at Swinburne University of Technology. He is Vice President Elect of ALIA and was conferred with a Fellowship of ALIA in 1995. That’s not what impressed me when I was digging around for an introduction for this LINTerview . I’m impressed that he’s obviously [...]

Like Kate Watson , Damian Lodge is newly elected to the ALIA board and shares a bit about himself in this LINTerview where he answers five questions he chose from our list. I live in Wagga in NSW, I am married to Justine who is also a librarian, we have two children aged 8 and [...]

Kate Watson, newly elected to the board of ALIA is a young Queensland librarian active in the New Librarians’ group and interested in how blogs and wikis can be applied in libraries. She currently works as Rubric Co-ordinator at the University of Sunshine Coast. We gave her our list of LINTerview questions and asked her [...]