Last year for Library and Information Week (LIW) we asked you for your visions of a library in 2010. You might like to revisit those posts to see what we were thinking a year ago…
This year we are going to celebrate by hosting a Carnival of the Infosciences. The carnival has not been held since [...]

More and more of our professional development has moved to blogs, wikis, and social software. While this means we are more up to date than ever, we are also at risk of becoming overwhelmed. You might have returned from a holiday, an intense project at work or just realised that your RSS feeds have become [...]

Over at Techcrunch, Duncan Riley reports that the Australian Government has launched a consultation paper on whether the Australian Government ought to have a consultation blog.
Duncan thinks that this is ironic - a consultation paper for a consultation blog - the comments argue the case from both angles.
Australian Government Proves Why Blogging Is Best [...]

About a month ago I wrote about a new initiative that we introduced, the THALI-Tags tag cloud. This morning an updated version of the site went live. The changes are:

Using a new Yahoo! Pipe for the analysis of posts to extract terms;
The PHP code used to generate the tag cloud was cleaned up and generally [...]

I’m playing around a little with the restrictions for Blog Day 2007 and going for a combination of blogs I’ve recently come across, blogs I’ve re-discovered and blogs that continue to delight with new content…admittedly that last is stretching the rules ever so slightly. Some of my interests of late have veered toward the esoteric [...]

These are my five new(ish) subscriptions for BlogDay2007

Social Networking Libraries – Research on social networking tools and their use in libraries.
iLibrarian — News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution. The title kind of reminds me of Tarzan movies. I Librarian, You Jane?
Ambient Connections via Ron Edwards — Innovations in game, mobile and other [...]

I think this is my third Blog Day - time flies when you’re having fun!
Five blogs that I find interesting? My picks (I’m going to cheat a bit and call them new, even if they’re only new to me):
Ockham’s Razor, subtitled musings of the lazyst environmentalyst. Written by Clare, “a librarian doing research”, this blog [...]

Today a new feature of LINT has been released. It is called THALI - Tags. There is link to it in the top of every page or you can visit it directly by going to http://librariesinteract.info/thali-tags/.
What is the THALI - Tag cloud? It is tag cloud made up of tags derived from posts from the [...]

In July last year I wrote about blogging platforms being used for a variety of information management purposes. I gave a few examples and CW reminded us of Casey Bisson’s use of WordPress to “unsuck” the OPAC and build a library catalogue. Since then, the WPopac has become Scriblio, and it is now being used for an [...]

For those in Melbourne in July, this is one not to be missed, and not only because both Kathryn and I will be presenting!  Libraries, Web 2.0 and other Internet stuff will be held at the State Library of Victoria on Monday 23rd July.
The key presenter will be Helene Blowers from the Public Library of [...]