The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) has two events on the horizon for those interested in research data. Later this month at the University of Queensland, “eResearch Australasia 2007″ focuses on raising awareness for eResearch activities, information sharing and networking, Australian and regional eResearch initiatives.
The program, dates and registration information is available from the event [...]

Here’s my doodle of the way I’d like to see our academic library in 2010.
Tell us your vision for your library in 2010 and you can win a signed copy of Meredith Farkas’ new book Social Software in Libraries.

Academic Library 2010 uploaded onFlickr May 12, 2007 by sirexkat

Alison Hunter from the University of Southern Queensland has established a Google Group for Australian and New Zealand repository managers.
“This Group was set up following a meeting at Educause Australasia
2007, where there was an interesting discussion about creating an
inclusive national group of people involved in managing institutional
repositories. Those present didn’t want a formally constituted group
but [...]

The Horizon Report 2007 lists the technologies that your university or school library should watch in the next 5 years or so. It is a joint publication of the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE learning initiative - both are groups of universities, museums and corporations concerned with using Information Technology for better education.
Even if your [...]

Attendance at the recent Information Online conference in Sydney brought home to me the fact that university libraries around Australia are still somewhat in the dark about the whole RQF (Research Quality Framework) which will be imposed by the federal government in 2008. The problem seems to lie in a government which is willing to [...]

Paul Pival, The Distant Librarian, brings to our attention a survey exploring the uses of blogs in academic libraries.
You can take part and then see the responses to date.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=773202839763
There are some great ideas for marketing a library blog in the results. 

I recently had a family holiday in Hong Kong. We were kept up-to-date by copies of the South China Morning Post, kindly provided by our Hotel. It’s always interesting to read foreign newspapers to get a different view of the world, and it was refreshing to find that the Ashes test was not dominating the [...]

It has been an exciting year at GCIT, with the Qld Skills Plan released, the endorsement of the Shared Services Model for TAFE Libraries, the Review of Library Services for TAFE and the recent change to Dept. of Education, Training and the Arts. The GCIT Learn Centre is fully engaged with the blended and flexible [...]

Link to Bond University - Employment Opportunities - Copyright Coordinator
Part-time - fixed term position
Reporting to the Director of Library Services, the Copyright Coordinator is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of copyright policy and services for the University. The primary focus for this position is to ensure compliance with copyright laws and other legislative [...]

Open access repositories of library and information science research are good (free) sources to monitor to keep up with professional reading. Alia eprints and dlist are examples of  subject-based repositories in the library and information science area.
Repositories are a fairly hot topic in the academic sector at present as more Universities, usually with the leadership [...]