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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 was [...]

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, [...]