Talk about food for thought. Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library recently held an edible book festival. Titles included:

The vagina monologues
A clockwork orange
The complete book of sushi

Link to Edible Book Festival 2007 - a photoset on Flickr

Dave Pattern from the University of Huddersfield in the UK wants to know. He’s asking libraries worldwide to fill out his OPAC survey.

He’s planning to use it in a presentation he’s giving at LiS 2007 on 18th April, and to write an informal report around the middle of May. He’s already given a preliminary [...]

I was debating with myself and the Thali whether or not to post something about the Ning Library 2.0 network here. If you’ve been reading library blogs this past week you won’t have missed it – it seems like everyone’s at least aware of this exciting new space, if not actively exploring it. Still, because [...]

Sharon Karasmanis from La Trobe University Library reports that the collection at Information Online conference raised an additional $1055 dollars for the Libs for Africa campaign.
She also mentions that Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education in remote Northern Territory is the first place to take up the challenge and conduct a fund raiser for Libs for [...]

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 [...]

The 5th International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum will take place in Brisbane, Australia from the 4th to the 7th of June 2007.
“The Forum is an opportunity for Indigenous library workers from around the world to share information, contribute in the development of solutions to common concerns, and to discuss issues relating to the communication, documentation and [...]

Found via ALIA home page news (feed), La Trobe University Library is raising funds to help send African librarians to an IFLA conference in Durban.
Information on how to donate + some ideas for fundraising are available from the La Trobe University Library website.

I recently had a family holiday in Hong Kong. We were kept up-to-date by copies of the South China Morning Post, kindly provided by our Hotel. It’s always interesting to read foreign newspapers to get a different view of the world, and it was refreshing to find that the Ashes test was not dominating the [...]

Are you planning a trip in 2007 and want to see if you can tie in with a conference somewhere in the world? Or maybe you are planning your professional development activities for the year ahead.
The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences shows what’s on where. You can view it online in calendar format and [...]

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 [...]