Anyone who has spent any time near the information desk in an academic library has heard about the EndNote software. Those of us who have been looking for alternatives generally choose the Zotero Firefox plugin for a whole range of different reasons.
Whilst reading my RSS feeds this morning I came across a post entitled “Thomson [...]

The WordPress blogging platform is, I believe, one of the most popular platforms for blogging. I know many places use the WordPress.org version (including Libraries Interact), individuals use the WordPress.com version, and some institutions are using the WordPress MU version as well.
My place of work is one of them, using it to host a blogs [...]

Last Saturday Tim Spalding, from LibraryThing, posted about how you can use Google Book Search as a source of cover images. You can read all about it at the Thingology blog. Tim says that the code is a little rough, but it does provide a working example.
With this technique for getting book covers from Google [...]

The Call for Abstracts has just gone out for the annual LIANZA conference in New Zealand, to be held in Auckland, 2-5 Nov, 2008. The conference theme this year is: Poropitia - Outside the Box.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts for papers due: 2 May 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2008
Confirmation of format of presentation: 14 July 2008
Completed papers [...]

In today’s Higher Education supplement there are two articles, here and here, dealing with the replacement to the now defunct RQF process. The replacement is called Excellence in Research for Australia, and will be jointly crafted by the Australian Research Council and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.  These also relate to the [...]

Scott Carlson of The Chronicle of Higher Education - Information Technology asks some young(ish) librarians about what will change and what needs to change.
These are the questions he asked them:

What is the future of the book?
Will there be a reference desk?
What information services will be performed by libraries in the future, and what information services [...]

There’s plans afoot for librarians around the world to coordinate an invasion of the various Answer sites on the same day, 10 Sept 2007. A day long answerfest with librarians marketing their services to an audience that has gone elsewhere. Answer as many questions as you like and leave links back to your library so [...]

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 [...]

Peter Murray, the Disruptive Library Technology Jester has provided a screencast demonstrating the Open Library Project.  The project’s aim is to create a catalogue of “every book” using library and publisher bibliographic data using a wiki-like interface.
It raises some big questions for libraries. As Peter says, “Open Library is one of those mind-bending, assumption-shattering projects [...]

While we’re gazing toward 2010, here is an amazing 7 minute video of the Transformation Lab experiment in a Danish Library that transforms one library space into many possible library futures. My favourite bit is the “questions floor”, where library users can answer questions projected onto the library floor via their mobile phones.
Alane at OCLC’s [...]