As an adjunct to the VALA 2010 Conference, a series of special ‘techie’ sessions is being run under the title of VALAtech Boot Camp.
The five sessions will be run over 4 days and include:

OCLC API Mashathon
Video: Negotiating the Online and Mobile Space
Semantic Web APIs
Open Source Content Management Systems – Joomla!
Open Source Content Management Systems [...]

Wired reports that more than 2 million public domain books will soon be available for on-demand printing from Google Book Search in partnership with On Demand Books.
According to the On Demand Books site, the only locations in Australia are:

Angus and Robertson in Bourke St, Melbourne.
Baillieu Library University of Melbourne (Fall 2009 – so not [...]

It is now possible to create your own ‘book’ of Wikipedia articles and either download it as a PDF, or order a bound copy.
That adds a whole new dimension to collection development, and opens up possibilities for creating open educational resources.
Help:Books – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Currently only Wikipedia editors can save books permanently, but maybe [...]

In the latest round of who is buying who, Facebook has purchased FriendFeed, for an (officially) undisclosed amount. Check out the reports on the acquisition and what will happen to FriendFeed at Tech Crunch, FriendFeed blog, Read/Write Web and Mashable.

VALA 2010 will be held in Melbourne from February 9 to 11, 2010 and the program is now available on the website.  The keynote speakers are Marshall Breeding from Vanderbilt University, Karen Calhoun from OCLC, Stephanie Orlic from the Musee de Louvre, Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet Project, McKenzie (Ken) Wark from the Eugene [...]

ALA Annual Conference 2009 is finishing up in the US on the 15th, after 8 days of action packed library fun in Chicago.  If you have missed seeing some of the reports coming out, I can highly recommend you check out the following, for conference blogging and reports.

ALA Annual Conference 2009 Website
Library Journal
Real time twitter [...]

The Library 2.0 Gang is running a competition for the best library mashup idea.  It doesn’t have to be a working prototype, just an idea of how libraries could use mashups to provide awesome service to their users.  “The only restriction being that it must include library data or functionality somewhere within it.”
The competition was [...]

Some of the work that the THALI has put into the Libraries Interact blog is featured in a chapter in the just released Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data published by Information Today, Inc.
The chapter focuses on the three plugins that we have developed to extend the Libraries Interact blog and have [...]

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Library recently gave students the chance to win $1,000 in the UTS LIB:Flicks 2009 competition.
Students submitted short videos (less than 2min) to promote UTS Library services and resources to new undergraduate students
The winners were announced the other day at a premier event held in the Library and the prizes [...]

This post is inspired by “5 Things I didn’t realize I’d be working on….. (when I decided to become a librarian)” at the ACRLog.  Although when I first read it, I knew I would have to adapt it.  Firstly, because I decided to become a librarian at age 11 and secondly because I have already [...]