Sharon Karasmanis from La Trobe University Library reports that the collection at Information Online conference raised an additional $1055 dollars for the Libs for Africa campaign.
She also mentions that Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education in remote Northern Territory is the first place to take up the challenge and conduct a fund raiser for Libs for [...]
I recently posted about a fund-raiser, Libs for Africa. Sharon Karasmanis, the organiser tells more about this project.
P.H. Can you tell me something about “Libs for Africa”?
S.K. Libs for Africa was formed in November 2006 by a group of interested librarians at La Trobe University Library. The objective is to raise as much money as possible [...]
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 [...]
Found via ALIA home page news (feed), La Trobe University Library is raising funds to help send African librarians to an IFLA conference in Durban.
Information on how to donate + some ideas for fundraising are available from the La Trobe University Library website.
The Thali is bringing you another blog: Virtual Librariesinteract.info:blog central for Australian Libraries in Other Worlds .
It started as a place to record the nuts and bolts of the Australian Libraries in Second Life project, so LINT wouldn’t get flooded. The scope grew to include Australian libraryfolks’ adventures in virtual worlds such as World [...]
I’m gobsmacked! I just popped into Cybrary City in Second Life for a visit before bed, and have come out with a building for all Australian Libraries to share. Ooops.
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Cybrary City is an island sponsered by Talis and administered by the Alliance Library System. It provides free buildings for libraries for a year, in [...]
A new way of collecting cultural heritage collections has emerged. There are 5 days left to contribute to the Yahoo Time Capsule.
The creator, Jonathan Harris describes it:
…the Yahoo! Time Capsule sets out to collect a portrait of the world – a single global image composed [...]
Katrina Hughes is researching for a conference paper, and wants to find out why we still use print versions, when electronic ones are available.
Link to Library Survey
You can help her out by completing an online survey. Only 19 questions so it shouldn’t take too long.
Are you an ALIA member? Are you interested in working on proposals that will benefit new graduates?
Positions on NGPAG, the New Generation Policy and Advisory Group of ALIA are now open. More information about what we do available in this month’s InCite and from our Committee page.
I’d love to hear from anyone in library-land who has used/heard of/rejected/embraced/toyed with MODS (metadata object description schema) as the next evolutionary step from MARC.
I asked this question more locally about a year ago when I first started seriously to inform myself about metadata and got either blank or ‘don’t touch that’ looks back then. [...]
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