This morning I’m pleased to report that an updated version of our popular THALI Tags page has been released. This new version is using the Diverse Group Tag Cloud plugin that we’ve been developing.
The THALI Tags page is a tag cloud that is generated by using content analysis of posts on our individual blogs, as [...]

Internationally recognised US Web 2.0 commentator, blogger and library academic, Dr Michael Stephens, has been appointed the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar. On behalf of CAVAL and its project partners: CityLibraries Townsville and Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dr Stephens’ research project will seek to measure the value and effect of Learning [...]

The Courier Mail has reported that Australians now spend much more time online. The news come from Nielsen Online’s Internet and Technology Survey of more than 2000 Australians and found that :

Australians spent an average of 89.2 hours a week consuming media
which is equivalent to 80% of waking hours – which is possible as people [...]

With the end of the old year and the start of the new, it is the time for predictions.  There have been many personal ones, along the lines of new year’s resolutions in a sense, but also many from consultants and experts in the field.
A few of the more noteworthy ones I have come across [...]

Long time readers of our blog will remember that we started the Virtual Libraries Interact blog back in late 2006 as a sister site to our blog.
Unfortunately due to a number of reasons the Virtual Libraries Interact blog has been languishing for a while and no new posts have been added.
It with some regret, and [...]

Libraries Interact already has an Aussie Library Blogs list which is great but it would also be nice to be able to chat with other people in the Australian Library Industry one on one
Twitter is a popular new way for people with shared interests to chat with each other

I know of quite a few people [...]

Registrations for the second slq Library 2.0 UnConference are now open.

THEME:    Web 2.0. Now what?
 DATE:       Thursday 20 November 2008
TIME:         8:30 – 4:30 (coffee available from 8:30am, post-conference drinks from 4:30pm).
VENUE:     State Library of Queensland

COST:       $40 (includes an admission entry to the Game On exhibition being held at slq, and all day tea and coffee, [...]

Anyone who has spent any time near the information desk in an academic library has heard about the EndNote software. Those of us who have been looking for alternatives generally choose the Zotero Firefox plugin for a whole range of different reasons.
Whilst reading my RSS feeds this morning I came across a post entitled “Thomson [...]

Nominations for VALA travel scholarships and the VALA award for innovative use of information technology close on the 27th of October. The VALA award is open to all libraries and information centres in Australia. It is presented every two years and applications implemented between July 2006 and June 2008 are eligible.
The travel scholarships include overseas [...]

The WordPress blogging platform is, I believe, one of the most popular platforms for blogging. I know many places use the WordPress.org version (including Libraries Interact), individuals use the WordPress.com version, and some institutions are using the WordPress MU version as well.
My place of work is one of them, using it to host a blogs [...]