Michael Stephens has announced the dates for his seminars in Australia next February and March 2008, through CAVAL: The Hyperlinked Library: Trends, Tools and Transparency – an Expert Forum with Michael Stephens No doubt there will be plenty of opportunities for TTW readers and fellow bloggers to meet and greet as well!

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you want to see a real life example of a library using a social bookmarking service as a content management system… Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries is using del.icio.us to manage the virtual reference page on their website. Librarians add a bookmark in del.icio.us and give each one tags to assign the link to particular [...]

On behalf of the Organising Committee, we wish to announce that Registration for the ALIA National Library and Information Association Technicians Conference 2007 is now open. The Conference will address key issues affecting the library and information professions in this rapidly changing digital age and offer a stimulating program featuring leaders in their fields of [...]

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 [...]

While we’re gazing toward 2010, here is an amazing 7 minute video of the Transformation Lab experiment in a Danish Library that transforms one library space into many possible library futures. My favourite bit is the “questions floor”, where library users can answer questions projected onto the library floor via their mobile phones. Alane at [...]

Can’t afford $895+ to attend expensive seminars about Library2.0? Me neither. Here then, is a quickie definition of Library2.0 and a few resources for further reading. What is Library2.0? Library 2.0 includes the application of Web2.0 technologies and tools to our libraries, but it goes further than this and involves rethinking where the library boundaries [...]

I was debating with myself and the Thali whether or not to post something about the Ning Library 2.0 network here. If you’ve been reading library blogs this past week you won’t have missed it – it seems like everyone’s at least aware of this exciting new space, if not actively exploring it. Still, because [...]

ALIA SA is presenting the following workshop as part of our Basic 101 workshop series (other topics planned for 2007 include Flickr, Podcasting, RSS & Second Life) A practical hands-on workshop which will show you: what a wiki is some possible uses for wikis look at Wikipedia in a new way post to our workshop [...]