Internet Librarian 2011, with the theme “Revolutionizing the Net with Content, Connections & Conversations”, is heading into its last day at Monterey, California – but its not too late to watch the Live Stream (if you’re a night owl), or follow the live action from the participants views on Twitter. (follow the hash tag #IL2011 [...]

This is great. The Auslan version of Feathers for Phoebe by Rod Clement – made available by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) for National Simultaneous Storytime 2011 (NSS).   The simultaneous bit starts at 11.00am AEST today.

These reports were produced a little while ago, but they are worth the look. The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) produces the IFLA World Report a biennial series that reports on the state of countries of the world relating to freedom of information, freedom of expression and other related issues. So I checked out [...]

n two days it will be 10/10/10 (10th of October 2010). ALIA is promoting a library top ten lists campaign and has invited anyone to create a list of top 10s. In this set of webslides I’m not sure these are THE top 10, but they are 10 top links to inspire a green library [...]

Today is #followalibrary day. This is a day to show your appreciation for your library by giving it some twitter link love. Look out for posters like the one illustrated here or for a twitter link on library websites. @libsinteract has followed all the Australian libraries that are listed on the @followalibrary/Australia list and this [...]

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 [...]

Week 1 in the #blogeverydayinJune challenge has come to a close.  It’s been an exciting and productive week to say the least! I am most impressed that all participating bloggers remain on the bandwagon to date. It seems @flexnib with her Day 6 meme about reading habits provided some light relief for a third of [...]

IzRock’s Joseph (I think that’s his identity) and his mate Rene travel from Sydney to Canberra to visit the National Library of Australia to deposit zines and art books. Their minds are boggled by the size and scope of the NLA’s archiving activities. Check out the photo essay.

ALIA has aligned itself with Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo to present a statement on Internet filtering. You can read Core Principles for Effective Action for a Safer Internet on the ALIA site. As one tweeter put it… @katiedatwork smart partnering and a strong stance: http://www.alia.org.au/internetfiltering/ seriously impressed, @ALIANational.

Colleagues, I have been here at the Realising our Broadband Future forum for the past two days and many of you have seen the twittering at #bbfuture. Places at this conference have been by invitation only and I have been pleased and proud to represent our profession and ALIA here – amongst the government, technical [...]