During our recent #blogeverydayofjune challenge, someone lamented on the lack of scholarly Library literature coming out of Australia. Well, here’s our opportunity to change that, by contributing to ALA anthologies on practicing librarians. We all know that so many Australian libraries and librarians are doing great things in their communities. Every month I get fantastic [...]

There will be no spoilers in this post. Last week I was privileged to get an opportunity to be an extra on the set of The Librarians. They are currently filming series 3. I spent a total of ten hours on set over two days to film two scenes. Being an extra is not the [...]

Its on again, Library Day in the Life will begin on Monday 25th January.  This will be round 4 of this project. To recap, the Library Day in the Life Project aims to document a day (or week) in the working life of a librarian.  In previous rounds, this has taken the form of blog [...]

This coming Movember we issue a call to Australia’s library workers: become a Mo-brarian and join the fight to change the face of men’s health. Movember, the formerly useless and boring month of November, has been remade with the addition of a little facial hair. Now a global charity phenomenon, Movember creates much-needed awareness while [...]

The Library 2.0 Gang is running a competition for the best library mashup idea.  It doesn’t have to be a working prototype, just an idea of how libraries could use mashups to provide awesome service to their users.  “The only restriction being that it must include library data or functionality somewhere within it.” The competition [...]

For something a little light-hearted check out the Amazon Kindling..   It may be weird but its not wired Image by Oskay reproduced under a Creative Commons License. More images on Flickr.

 - Posted on behalf of Michael Stephens – Dear Australian library colleagues, You may have seen the announcement earlier this year where I was appointed as the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar. My research, “Measuring the Value and Effect of Learning 2.0 Programs in Libraries” will evaluate the impact of Learning 2.0 programs in Australia and [...]

On 21st April, the World Digital Library was launched. The World Digital Library brings together digitised primary documents including rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs, from countries around the world, with content available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Inspired by James Billington from the Library of Congress in 2004, it [...]

The Library Society of the World has been around for a couple of years – many of the LINT team are members, some of us even active in it.  From their wiki: “The Library Society of the World is a loose group of librarians, archivists, information professionals, and information educators dedicated to promoting libraries and [...]

Internationally recognised US Web 2.0 commentator, blogger and library academic, Dr Michael Stephens, has been appointed the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar. On behalf of CAVAL and its project partners: CityLibraries Townsville and Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dr Stephens’ research project will seek to measure the value and effect of Learning [...]