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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]