September is a lovely time of year to visit Brisbane.. And this September, you can attend the Open Access and Research Conference and hear speakers on topics such as evolving publishing models, repository management, e-Research, policy development, and legal and technical issues.
Early bird registration is available until the 25th of July. The conference will be [...]

Another professional development opportunity at the State Library of Queensland. And it’s free too.
Power to the people through public access computing: a presentation and workshop by Dr Karen Fisher
Dr Karen Fisher – Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Karen’s research and teaching focus is information behavior (social and cognitive aspects of how [...]

On Library Lovers’ Day I attended Open Access Collections at Customs House in Brisbane. This was an APSR event held in association with QULOC and the University of Queensland.
I found the presentations very stimulating, especially Peter Murray-Rust’s in which he talked about open data and highlighted some useful sites to investigate further. It [...]

On the 10th of October, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation (QULOC) hosted a seminar at the Garden’s Point campus of Queensland University of Technology. The seminar was organised by the ICT Working Party and featured presentations, demonstrations and hands-on sessions focused on social software.
Despite a stormy Brisbane morning there was a full-house of attendees, many [...]

Thursday, October 11, 2007

9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Library2.0 UnconferenceLibrary2.0 - using Web 2.0 social networking tools (blogs, wikis, feeds, podcasts, virtual reality, instant messaging, LibraryThing, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life etc) in Libraries….

State Library of Queensland

Stanley Place
South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland

 
On the day before the unconference, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation ICT Working Party is [...]

Friday, September 28, 2007

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Australian Blogging Conference"This will be an unusual conference. We generally won’t have speakers, panels or an audience. We will have discussions and sessions, and each session will have a discussion leader. " — website…

Queensland University of Technology Brisbane

The Oral History Association of Australia is holding its biennial conference in Brisbane in late September (27-30th). Old stories, new ways  is the theme with presentations on interpreting story, working with community, understanding memory, oral history and independent practitioners and addressing changing technologies. There is an optional excursion to North Stradbroke Island to visit the Historical [...]

The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) has two events on the horizon for those interested in research data. Later this month at the University of Queensland, “eResearch Australasia 2007″ focuses on raising awareness for eResearch activities, information sharing and networking, Australian and regional eResearch initiatives.
The program, dates and registration information is available from the event [...]

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 [...]

Queensland State Library is hosting a visit by Nancy Pearl in December. So if you want to hear from a librarian who inspired an action figure complete with ‘amazing push-button shushing action’, here is your opportunity
Have you got 15 December marked in your calendar?  Why? To attend the Nancy Pearl seminar, slq Auditorium 1, State Library [...]