It has been an exciting year at GCIT, with the Qld Skills Plan released, the endorsement of the Shared Services Model for TAFE Libraries, the Review of Library Services for TAFE and the recent change to Dept. of Education, Training and the Arts. The GCIT Learn Centre is fully engaged with the blended and flexible [...]

Link to Bond University - Employment Opportunities - Copyright Coordinator
Part-time - fixed term position
Reporting to the Director of Library Services, the Copyright Coordinator is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of copyright policy and services for the University. The primary focus for this position is to ensure compliance with copyright laws and other legislative [...]

I’m motivated to post by an article in this month’s Incite, the ALIA news magazine (I can’t link to the article, though, because it’s not included on the net).  The title was “What do an Apple store and a library have in common?”  Interesting that the Future of Public Libraries conference should have the architect [...]

It’s wonderful to see that so many librarians from Queensland and nearby regions are so keen to learn about the use of emerging technologies to communicate with their clients. Following last year’s sell-out seminar “New Communication Technologies in Libraries”, the QULOC ICT working party arranged a reprise ” Communicating With Clients Using New Technologies”. This [...]

After I had posted about Librarians and Google, I came across this piece by Richard Danner
Redefining a Profession
I can now do personal research online. Am I more productive than if I had to go to the library? Of course, I am.(1)
“Information isn’t powerful. Information isn’t power. … Hey, who’s got the most information? Librarians do! [...]

 
I’m a librarian and I love my Google. But I cringe when I read comparisons between Librarians and google. (Notice the inadvertent capitalisation. No, I’m not going to correct it!) I’m proud of the way we deal with the reference interview. I will never forget one of my first experiences in a public library when [...]

Hello, for those living in QLD who are interested in blogs and wikis for client communication in libraries, Chelsea Harper and myself will be presenting a session on ‘Using Blogs and Wikis to Communicate with Clients’ at the next QULOC Session ‘Communicating with Clients Using New Technologies’ on the 28th August. http://www.quloc.org.au/
For the interest of [...]

Keeing up with the options - very difficult for me, with my busy life and lack of tech skills.  So I appreciate, so much, posts like this one. Stephen Cohen has pointed out a great example of a library using flickr to communicate with its patrons.

Here at the RUBRIC project we have a wiki that we make available to all of our project partners and board members. So what exactly is a wiki? The definition provided by the Wikipedia, the worlds largest and best known wiki, states:
A wiki … is a type of website that allows users to easily add, [...]

Here at the RUBRIC project we need to keep a close eye on our project. The way that we do that is using the Trac project management system. It allows us to keep an eye on things such as:

Tasks that we are currently undertaking, plan to undertake, and have completed via “tickets”
It allows us to [...]