Recently, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) at the University of Phoenix Research Institute released their report – Future Work Skills 2020. IFTF is renowned for its work using advancing foresight methodologies and use a range of techniques, including using gaming to crowd-source foresights. This report examines key drivers of change that will change the [...]

As many of us are back at work, its time to consider what the New Year is going to bring to our libraries. And as VALA 2012 is fast approaching, its only appropriate that we look at tech trends. Mashable recently listed its 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012.  They are: Augmented reality Micro-payment [...]

The winners of the 2011 Edublog Awards have been announced. Some of Libraries Interact’s friends were nominated and we congratulate them on this amazing honour. Check out the winners and runner ups – I am sure you’ll find something to add to your feed reader.

Internet Librarian 2011, with the theme “Revolutionizing the Net with Content, Connections & Conversations”, is heading into its last day at Monterey, California – but its not too late to watch the Live Stream (if you’re a night owl), or follow the live action from the participants views on Twitter. (follow the hash tag #IL2011 [...]

This week there will be no tag cloud, but there will be apologies to William Shakespeare… To meme, or not to meme: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler on rice to suffer the quirky things our borrowers do, Or to take arms against a gratuitous pet blog, And by travelling through the sense of [...]

Libraryhack is a mashup and apps competition being held in May 2011 and is a key project outcome from the NSLA Re-imagining Libraries project – Community Created Content. Libraryhack aims to encourage the creative and innovative re-use of library data and digital content from Australian and New Zealand libraries.       Have you got [...]

Open Source software now has to be considered as part of any Australian government agencies ICT procurements, as of March 2011. Australian Government – Department of Finance and Deregulation – Open Source Software Policy. It will be interesting to see which agencies (if any) will take implement Open Source solutions and which ones they will [...]

Fresh from the press, a leaked presentation to Yahoo’s internal staff, has shown that amongst other things, they will be shutting down delicious, the pioneering social bookmarking website. Yahoo has laid off quite a few staff of late and as a result is consolidating its products: shutting down some, merging others and putting their emphasis [...]

Nominations are now open for both these prestigious library awards. The Library Journal Movers and Shakers Awards recognise excellence in librarians across a wide range of disciplines, not just technology. They are a great way for applauding the wonderful work librarians do to elevate our services and our profession and to improve the services, organisation [...]

With our usual love of trying new things we have started playing with paper.li which creates a daily ‘newspaper’ view of tweets. Not only does it gather the tweets but also features the media and content to which they link. Paper.li is in alpha release at present. Check out the widget in our sidebar and [...]