On Library Lovers’ Day I attended Open Access Collections at Customs House in Brisbane. This was an APSR event held in association with QULOC and the University of Queensland. I found the presentations very stimulating, especially Peter Murray-Rust’s in which he talked about open data and highlighted some useful sites to investigate further. It was [...]

The AAF project is working to develop infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications within and between research and higher education institutions to support world-class research. The idea is that each institution in the federation would trust the authentication credentials of other members’ users to provide improved, authorised acccess. The AAF model for federated access management [...]

Scott Carlson of The Chronicle of Higher Education – Information Technology asks some young(ish) librarians about what will change and what needs to change. These are the questions he asked them: What is the future of the book? Will there be a reference desk? What information services will be performed by libraries in the future, [...]

Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM Library2.0 UnconferenceLibrary2.0 – using Web 2.0 social networking tools (blogs, wikis, feeds, podcasts, virtual reality, instant messaging, LibraryThing, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life etc) in Libraries…. State Library of Queensland Stanley Place South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland   On the day before the unconference, the Queensland University Libraries [...]

If you want to see a real life example of a library using a social bookmarking service as a content management system… Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries is using del.icio.us to manage the virtual reference page on their website. Librarians add a bookmark in del.icio.us and give each one tags to assign the link to particular [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]