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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday the article “ISP filtering gains momentum” was published in the Online edition of The Australian IT section of The Australian newspaper. We’ve posted about this initiative before. From the article: “As part of the federal budget, the Government allocated $125.8 million for a range of internet security initiatives, including the filtering program, over four [...]

Asking how big the internet is, is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. The answer is we really don’t know because it is unorganised, uncatalogued and continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. However, two recent sources are having a guestimate on where the internet is in terms of a [...]

Several of the Thali are Asus EeePC users. We thought we’d compare our impressions of the eee pc , especially from the perspective of using it in the library environment. But first, what are we talking about? Asus eee pcs are tiny, ultra-portable, cheap computers. There are now three sizes (7″, 9″ and  10″ or [...]

BRW Magazine launched the top 100 Australian Web applications in a feature section on Web 2.0 in 19th June issue. The article in BRW is only accessible online by subscription (check to see if your library’s databases have it covered), but the full list is available from Ross Dawson’s blog. Applications are included on the [...]

The mobile web has garnered a lot of attention in recent months and understandably so. Mobile phone ownership in Australia alone is over 90% (OECD Telecommunications Outlook 2007) although mobile use is still mainly focused on phone calls, with photography catching up. However, this is changing. Opera Software – creators of the Opera web browser [...]

As of 2009, students doing their HSC in NSW will be able to take a course in studying Wikipedia. The course is “intended to teach students skills of analysis to enable them to be more discerning about content they find on the web”. (Don Carter – Board of Studies, NSW). Considering that a lot of [...]

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 [...]