Library unconference fever has hit Perth again with libcampperth09 kicking off this morning. Live coverage should be available from the unconference wiki using Coveritlive – although at time of writing it still says “Upcoming Event”. In addition a Twitter fountain can be seen on Kathryn Greenhill’s blog “Librarians Matter”. This year, Michael Stephens is attending [...]

The Western Australian Library Unconference is on again this year. This year the theme is : Library 2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty. We hope to include half a day of small hands-on workshops and a “technology petting zoo” with gizmoes and gadgets to fiddle with. DATE: Friday 22 August 2008 TIME: 9:30am – [...]

Western Australia’s ALIAWest has joined the blogosphere with Biblia. Billed as “A virtual conversation for librarians in Western Australia”, it hopes to make Biblia (a newsletter , once upon a time – see the newsletter’s archives) “more accessible to today’s generation of library workers”. I look forward to hearing more about ALIAWest events and WA [...]

Calling all West Australian library folk, and anyone else who’ll be in Perth that day: LIBRARY 2.0 ON THE LOOSE: AN UNOFFICIAL UNCONFERENCE Feel passionate or curious about new library approaches, want to share it with a group of like minded librarians? Come to participate in discussion and presentations about new definitions of content, new [...]

What’s a collaborative blog for if not collective brain picking? I’d like to harvest some thoughts about which technologies/social software/new web tools you think libraries should be prepared for. . We just wrapped up a two month project at work where we used a tikiwiki installation to look at new web tools using new web [...]

My colleague Sue Grey-Smith will be retiring next year, and I thought it might be a good time to interview her and ask her to share a few insights on our profession. Sue’s worked in a number of different roles within the Library and Information Service at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, including web [...]

After years of creating my own homepage with pure HTML coding and FTP software, blogging and other social software does change the way in which information is being transmitted and shared. As a MIS student, a casual librarian and a casual library clerk in the public library sector, my research studies how blogs can enhance [...]

Well, this is a first for me (apart from a couple of attempts on our internal blog) – writing a post on an open blog. I thought about creating a blog myself but I think this will be more useful….and fun. I’m really looking forward to Click06 – I co-authored one of the papers being [...]

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