But that is beside the point. What is ANZ 23 Mobile Things?

“ALIA NGAC (Australian Library and Information Association New Generation Advisory Committee) and New Professionals Network NZ have teamed up to offer an Australian/New Zealand course based on the 23 Mobile Things course by Jan Holmquist. We are running this course from May-November 2013 and it currently has over 500 participants signed up! Come and join us in our learning journey.”

Over 500 of your Australian and New Zealand colleagues have already signed up and there are  opportunities to do more than just participate. Check out the ANZ 23 Mobile Things blog, the Facebook page and Twitter feed (@anz23mthings), but do so now, because we are in Week 0 – the learning begins next week!

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Program

Much as we would like to be there, we can still get the latest on what’s coming out of the conference through the Conference Blog. Alternatively, the conference is also being well covered by the likes of David Lee King and Librarian in Black, or one of the officially listed conference bloggers.

If you want to see the presentations, you can download them, but have to login. (User name/Password: il2011/il2011)

Don’t forget that Internet Librarian International in London is coming up, on 27th and 28th October, where more great content will be shared.

And once you have been suitably inspired, ALIA Biennial is seeking abstracts for the conference in Sydney in 2012.

The simultaneous bit starts at 11.00am AEST today.

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 the 2010 report on Australia, fully expecting that I would know everything that was there.  Not so. The report was quite interesting and reported on numbers of libraries – broken down by type, libraries and the Internet – including filtering used and national policy towards it, legal issues, open access, social issues, ethics and more.

You can view individual or multiple country reports, using the Google Map to access them, either in full or customised form. You can also access the Analysis and Conclusions of the World Report 2010 and comment on the whole report.

Well worth a view and an interesting insight into libraries and information worldwide.

Enjoy!

I’m looking forward to seeing some other top 10 lists, and will be checking the #top10for2010 tag on Twitter over the next few days. Check out the ALIA Library Top 10s for 2010 blog for ideas and links.

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 has added to our anz-libraries list. Send a direct message to @libsinteract if your library’s twitter account is not on our list as we’d love to list them. Not only does this make our list more comprehensive but it channels all those marvellous links into the libsinteract daily.

@followalibrary has more lists for regions all around the world.  Check out more information on the followalibrary blog.

Most importantly, however, is that you tweet about your library (if it doesn’t have a twitter account, at least tweet a link to the website) and tell a 140 character story about it.

The tweets were great, but I’m ready for some more substantial reflections on the event. I put out a tweet this morning and got a few links which led to:

• ADHD Librarian — My (first) library camp reflections and ALIA Access day one part one session one part one one one and ALIA Access tour day
• Bruce’s Friday Distractions Bulletin — My take on ALIAAccess – Librarycats
• the-Story Space — #ALIAAccess 2010 Brisbane

And of course Kim Tairi posted here at Libraries Interact on Day 1 on Information Literacy session.

• Information literacy and Web 2.0 a paradox

Please add a link to your blog post in the comments when you publish your blog posts. I’m looking forward to reading them.

On a side note, it was interesting revisiting the comments back when the Brisbane IFLA event was cancelled. A call out to those who commented back then, and attended ALIAAccess2010. How did the alternative event measure up to some of the ideas that were floated back then?

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 the blogging enthusiasts, particularly as some enjoyed a WA public holiday.

The meme has provided some interesting librarian type revelations – drinking tea seems to be the favourite drink whilst reading with some very specific tea requirements – Lady Grey or green tea on Angels have the Phonebox, Madura loos in a pot for Strawberries of Integrity, Daintree white no sugar for moonflowerdragon and the very specific strong English Breakfast tea with a drop of milk and no sugar for our meme originator ruminations. Coffee made a fleeting appearance but in its generic coffee form, no grande double skinny mocha latte with a half sugar to be found!

I was quite surprised to learn that perhaps I am the only librarian who regularly defaces books by marking them and making notes in them (and dare I add I have done this to a number of library books in my time – slap!).  I am grateful to Virtually a Librarian for joining in me as a confessed ‘dog earer’. With more respectable librarians it seems whilst bookmarks are preferred its more likely a receipt of some kind will be used.

I must admit I have never considered the idea of being irritated by a book enough to throw it – although my mother did raise me with an immense respect for books (I cut my doll’s hair and drew all over them but I never once defaced a book – well in my childhood anyway!) But two of our meme participants admitted to it – LiberryDwarf threw Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper and whilst Feral Librarian Tales admitted to the ‘crime’ declined to share the victim. It seems this may be a once in a lifetime event – so the rest of us are yet to discover this author of irritation in our lives.

Unsurprisingly most are happy to read anywhere – although from a Public librarian, FromMelbin & Bun-toting librarian the comforts of bed are preferred, other favourites revolved around arm chairs, sunshine and being able to have the time to read the day away with leisure.

Last but not least I was most intrigued by how people organise their book collections at home – as we all know often the librarian at work is far from the librarian at home! (read self confession). Angels have the phonebox organises her books by room – cookbooks in the kitchen, craft books in her studio. By genre and/or by author seemed most popular shared by batgirl, Feral Librarian Tales and Strawberries of Integrity. Virtually a Librarian‘s seems the most complicated system – but I do like that she has sections for borrowed books and books to be read despite that she is soon to be rid of them all! Moondragonflower is the only who admitted to using any form of Dewey at home – and even mentioned boxes ‘uncatalogued’ (imagining an OPAC built into the end of her bookshelf).  I resonated most with FromMelbin‘s book organisation – the better books being in the better bookshelf and the crappy books in boxes. I actually have two book cases – one for the ‘best books’ mostly my books and ordered, believe it or not, by colour (its very pretty!). The other book case has all the other ‘good books’ – those we like, some yet to be read and consists mostly of my partner’s books (you can tell who ordered the shelves!), lastly we have a half a shed full of archived books (stored properly for longevity) which is mostly all of our sentimental (read childhood) books which we love and can’t part with but is not practical or useful at present.

So we learned a lot from our challengers about their book, reading and home librarian habits and it seems that through reflecting on the meme I may just have completed it also!

For those who may still like to play along here are the questions:
Do you snack while reading?
What is your favourite drink while reading?
Do you tend to mark your books while you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
How do you keep your place? Bookmark? Dog ear? Laying the book open flat?
Fiction, non-fiction or both?
Do you tend to read to the end of a chapter or can you stop anywhere?
Are you the type of person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you?
If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away?
What are you currently reading?
What is the last book you bought?
Do you have a favourite time/place to read?
Do you prefer series books or stand-alones?
Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over?
How do you organise your books (by genre, title, author’s last name, etc.)?

Their minds are boggled by the size and scope of the NLA’s archiving activities.

Check out the photo essay.