Welcome to the LINT5 LINTerviews.
Have you ever met someone in libraryland and thought “I wonder what makes her tick?”. We have. We decided to find our favourite or most interesting library people and ask them questions about what has influenced their time in libraries.
To give our interviewees some choice, we send them a list of [...]

I recently posted about a fund-raiser, Libs for Africa. Sharon Karasmanis, the organiser tells more about this project.
P.H. Can you tell me something about “Libs for Africa”?
S.K. Libs for Africa was formed in November 2006 by a group of interested librarians at La Trobe University Library.  The objective is to raise as much money as possible [...]

Judy O’Connell is an Australian Librarian whose blog Hey Jude! won the International Edublog Award in the “Best Library or Librarian Blog” category, announced last night. Congratulations.
Judy is Education Officer, Library & Knowledge Management, with Catholic Education, working with 55 primary and 22 secondary schools in the Western region of Sydney. She is also Vice-President [...]

My colleague Sue Grey-Smith will be retiring next year, and I thought it might be a good time to interview her and ask her to share a few insights on our profession. Sue’s worked in a number of different roles within the Library and Information Service at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, including web [...]