I’m a Gold Coaster, and the first I heard about this story was from a tweet about a Library Journal (US publication) article. Queensland, Australia: City Looks to Commercialise #Libraries ow.ly/kt34S via @infodocket Tip: @mattrweaver — Library Journal (@LibraryJournal) April 26, 2013 A short time later I found the article on our local newspaper website [...]

An online petition has been created asking the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman and the Ministers to reinstate funding for the Queensland Government Departmental Libraries. It looks like the target of 600 signatures is going to be surpassed. Image by League of Women Voters of California  used under a Creative Commons Licence.

It’s topical in the tropical state, but I don’t have enough time to really pull this together as well as I’d like. From today’s (11 September 2012) p. 5 Courier Mail. Black day for coal jobs: positions slashed as industry reels from price falls and slowing China. This article is accompanied by a table outlining [...]

The State Library of Queensland is hosting a forum today with some of my favourite tweeps speaking/participating. How do libraries reassert their identity as providers of balanced and significant information in the age of Google? That’s the question of the day. Follow the hashtag #LiGW2012 on Twitter or you can see them captured as a [...]

It’s been a long time since we published a LINTerview, but last week Jo tweeted about a staff award her team had won, and one tweet led to another and to a blog post… Jo is Youth Outreach Librarian at Logan Library Service in Queensland.  Logan has 280,000 residents, 63 suburbs, 9  libraries spread across [...]

Brisbane City Council is setting an example for all libraries with their current initiative – they are giving people the opportunity to have their library fines waived in exchange for donating a can of food to Foodbank who distribute food donations to welfare agencies. The Council last ran a similar scheme in 2005 and collected [...]

ALIA Access 2010 is taking place at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1 – 3 September 2010. The 2010 event will challenge the traditional format of ALIA conferences with a focus on making the conference more ‘accessible’ for delegates and vendors. More will be revealed as the planning progresses…… The 3-day multi-sector conference [...]

Public Libraries Australia (PLA), the Queensland Public Libraries Association (QPLA), ALIA and the Townsville City Council are partnering to bring you: QPLA/PLA CONFERENCE 2009 : CHANGE AND CHALLENGE 11 – 14 October 2009 Jupiters Townsville Hotel and Casino The theme of the conference is appropriately Change and Challenge. It will feature many outstanding speakers and will highlight [...]

Registrations for the second slq Library 2.0 UnConference are now open. THEME:    Web 2.0. Now what?  DATE:       Thursday 20 November 2008 TIME:         8:30 – 4:30 (coffee available from 8:30am, post-conference drinks from 4:30pm). VENUE:     State Library of Queensland COST:       $40 (includes an admission entry to the Game On exhibition being held at slq, and all [...]

Anyone interested in the development of research repositories might like to go to this upcoming ARROW event in Brisbane. “Repositories : into the future” will be held at Customs House in Brisbane on Tuesday the 14th October. It is followed the next day by ARROW Community Day at Queensland University of Technology. Details: News and [...]