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 [...]

Back in September 2006, Gillian Hallam asked us all to contribute data for the Nexus survey, to discover more about the Australian LIS workforce. Nexus 2 has arrived and the aim of this survey is to gather data from institutions on workforce planning, staff development policies and practices.
If you are not a library manager, check if [...]

The National Library of Australia has launched "Library Labs", a wiki to share news with colleagues about what the NLA is doing in the redevelopment of digital library services using service-oriented architecture and open source software solutions. Comments, suggestions and feedback is welcome via the wiki.
Four different prototypes are described including the NBD prototype, Beta [...]

Last Saturday Tim Spalding, from LibraryThing, posted about how you can use Google Book Search as a source of cover images. You can read all about it at the Thingology blog. Tim says that the code is a little rough, but it does provide a working example.
With this technique for getting book covers from Google [...]

A new article, Online Predators and their victims in the journal of the American Psychological Association, examined fears of internet predators and concluded that they are myths. Based on three US surveys conducted by the authors, from the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, they found that internet-related sex [...]