Just in case you want to be a Cool Librarian too, here’s some information about a YouTube competition for the best love song about a favourite book and/or author.
Why should you tell your library community about this? Well, the winner gets to divide the USD5000 with a library of his or her choice.

Gale announces a [...]

Apologies to the NSLA , I got my facts wrong in the last post (The Big Bang: Creating the new library universe ). Caused by reading an email too quickly.
The Big Bang document that I mentioned was actually a preliminary paper from July 2007, designed to stimulate discussion as NLSA worked toward [...]

I didn’t make up the title - it’s an Exposure Draft produced by National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA). (PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT FOOT OF THIS POST )
It is a look into how these libraries will cope with future service demands and encourage “flexibility, rapid response and innovation within the library sector”. It is just [...]

The Western Australian Library Unconference is on again this year. This year the theme is : Library 2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty. We hope to include half a day of small hands-on workshops and a “technology petting zoo” with gizmoes and gadgets to fiddle with.
DATE: Friday 22 August 2008
TIME: 9:30am - 5pm
VENUE: State [...]

Recently I stumbled across this post on the ABC Unleashed website by Lucy Saunders. It presents an interesting way at looking at issues that we’ve posted about before [1] [2] [3] [4]. From the post:
Enjoy your unfiltered internet access while it lasts. As we speak, the government is hard at work building a device to [...]

Another professional development opportunity at the State Library of Queensland. And it’s free too.
Power to the people through public access computing: a presentation and workshop by Dr Karen Fisher
Dr Karen Fisher – Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Karen’s research and teaching focus is information behavior (social and cognitive aspects of how [...]

The Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) has released its position statement on the coverage of cataloguing in courses providing an initial qualification in library and information management.
The statement including an extract from the Educational Policy statements of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services is available from the ACOC site.  This extract contains a [...]

Last night, the 2008 Info Tubey awards were announced. This is the equivalent of the Oscars for Library clips that are featured on YouTube.
I liked this “Amazing Race” style clip about how to find information in the University of Ottawa Morisset Library. I think it’s the music that makes it so compelling to me.
The Amazing [...]

If you read library blogs - well, other than librariesinteract.info - you may have wondered what some of these library bloggers look like.
Cindi Trainor made a series of portraits of librarians while she was at the recent Computers in Libraries conference in the US. Recent visitors to Australia, Michael Stephens and Helene Blowers , [...]

Thanks to Joanna for bringing this to our attention. Holdings of Australian libraries who are contributors to the Australian National Bibliographic database are now appearing in Worldat search results. I have been waiting for this for quite some time now. It’s time to start thinking about possibiliites for using this data in the WorldCat context [...]