The National Library of Australia has recently launched ERA (Electronic Resources Australia). This consortium offers Australian libraries an opportunity to provide free online access to information in the areas of health, news, business and general reference, for their members.
An open discussion list has been established for librarians to exchange information about ERA, and the website [...]

Here’s an idea from Campbell County Public Library. They have implemented a 24×7 recorded story service, users can just dial on their telephone. Each story lasts just a few minutes.
Link to Community Press - Library dials up stories
 What else can libraries offer in the dial-a line? 

Here’s another entry in our Library 2010 competition. Andrew Finegan’s Libraries in 2010 . Enjoy.

To get the ball rolling and get some inspiration going for our “Get creative for May competition“, the Libraries Interact team is going to share some of its vision for the future of libraries (at least until 2010). Here I am sharing where I think my library, which is a public library, will be in [...]

Here’s a reference for a good old-fashioned print resource that I urge librarians to get hold of. Buschman comes from a ‘critical theory’ perspective, so is putting libraries in the context of:

‘information capitalism’
New Managerialism/New Public Management/the New Public Philosophy
the commodification of information
private-sector models of public service provision
encroachments on the progressive, social democratic role of libraries
factors [...]

Apologies to those who linked and networked to http://del.icio.us/actplreference. It’s now been taken down, as administrators in my library were concerned about things being put up in its name without departmental approval. Most of the same links are available on http://del.icio.us/frightfullynew.
This got me thinking about all of the trust issues for librarians in Library2.0. It [...]

Nancy Dowd at “The M Word - Marketing Libraries” is seeking feedback.  She wants to know your:
1. Ten reasons why libraries are better than buying and you can’t use “free”
2. Ten reason why you love your library.
for a video she is putting together.
Here’s mine, put together at a moment’s notice:
11 reasons why libraries [...]

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 [...]

Recently there have been two advertisements on television that are funny, but irk me because of the messages they are giving or not giving.
The Telstra Bigpond ad “Too many rabbits” has a voiceover at the end “Give your kids the right answers, get them broadband.” Will someone please grab that Dad and tell him that [...]

News arising - forwarded from the RMIT students mailing list (and also from the ALIA Vic list) I have received the following information about a Victorian public libraries initiative which I thought should be posted here, where all the 2.0 crowd tend to gather.
Dear colleagues
What’s the best part of a conference? Most people agree it’s [...]