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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]