An online petition has been created asking the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman and the Ministers to reinstate funding for the Queensland Government Departmental Libraries. It looks like the target of 600 signatures is going to be surpassed. Image by League of Women Voters of California  used under a Creative Commons Licence.

It’s topical in the tropical state, but I don’t have enough time to really pull this together as well as I’d like. From today’s (11 September 2012) p. 5 Courier Mail. Black day for coal jobs: positions slashed as industry reels from price falls and slowing China. This article is accompanied by a table outlining [...]

This event sneaked up on me this year and was almost over before I noticed. 18-24th of October. “A global event, now in its 4th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.” — http://www.openaccessweek.org/ If you missed it too, here are just a few links I found of interest in [...]

When I heard that a half day Virtual Reference (VR) training session was going to be held in Sydney I immediately paid the nominal $30 fee because I thought it was a valuable skill to learn and until now I’d never heard of Virtual Reference training offered anywhere in Sydney. The session was run by [...]

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 [...]

So you would like to hear my vision of my library in 2010? My first reaction is that its only three years away – not long at all, I had better get busy. I am new to my current position and this is my attempt at thinking through my first three year plan. My vision [...]

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 [...]