It is now possible to create your own ‘book’ of Wikipedia articles and either download it as a PDF, or order a bound copy. That adds a whole new dimension to collection development, and opens up possibilities for creating open educational resources. Help:Books – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Currently only Wikipedia editors can save books [...]

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 [...]

Freebase, a structured wiki-like database, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in web architecture and the quest for a semantic digital order. It uses a system of user-extensible types that allow contributors to build logical relations between topics rather than just linking and tagging them. Sounds simple? Freebase’s structure seems to introduce [...]

Peter Murray, the Disruptive Library Technology Jester has provided a screencast demonstrating the Open Library Project.  The project’s aim is to create a catalogue of “every book” using library and publisher bibliographic data using a wiki-like interface. It raises some big questions for libraries. As Peter says, “Open Library is one of those mind-bending, assumption-shattering [...]

The clips below, produced by Lee and Sachi LeFever of Commoncraft , take less than 10 minutes to watch and explain RSS, Wikis and Social Networking more clearly than any other resource I’ve found. Lee LeFever explains the stylistic decisions they made for the clips and why the constraints they chose give them freedom to [...]

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 [...]

ALIA SA recently ran a Basic Wikis 101 workshop which was a great success! The workshop is part of the ALIA SA Basic 101 Workshop series which gives participants the chance to learn about Web 2.0 technologies in a hands-on environment. Check out photos of the workshop in action here… Attendees were introduced to the [...]

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 [...]

Apologies to those who linked and networked to http://del.icio.us/actplreference. It’s now been taken down, as administrators in my library were concerned about things being put up in its name without departmental approval. Most of the same links are available on http://del.icio.us/frightfullynew. This got me thinking about all of the trust issues for librarians in Library2.0. [...]