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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve recently noted a couple of new blogs by Canadian University Librarians. The University Librarian at Simon Fraser University Library, Lynn Copeland, blogs at Distracted Truffle Pig (great name!). The University Librarian at McMaster University Library, Jeffrey Trecziak, is blogging too. Thanks to Michael Stephens for the pointer! Both blogs have started with interesting posts. [...]

Hello, for those living in QLD who are interested in blogs and wikis for client communication in libraries, Chelsea Harper and myself will be presenting a session on ‘Using Blogs and Wikis to Communicate with Clients’ at the next QULOC Session ‘Communicating with Clients Using New Technologies’ on the 28th August. http://www.quloc.org.au/ For the interest [...]

I was as excited as anyone when I saw that librariesinteract had launched, plugging the yawning gap that had appeared in the world of Australian library blogs (the Australiobiblioblogosphere? The biblioblogosouthernhemisphere?). The need for ambitious, inclusive, widely read projects is obvious. What I have been thinking about, though, is the application of blogs for smaller [...]

My colleague Sue Grey-Smith will be retiring next year, and I thought it might be a good time to interview her and ask her to share a few insights on our profession. Sue’s worked in a number of different roles within the Library and Information Service at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, including web [...]

Here at the RUBRIC project we have a wiki that we make available to all of our project partners and board members. So what exactly is a wiki? The definition provided by the Wikipedia, the worlds largest and best known wiki, states: A wiki … is a type of website that allows users to easily [...]