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. [...]

I think I can safely say that the Thali are all enjoying the experience of collaborating on this blog, exploring new ideas, learning and building an online community of (mostly) Australian (mostly) librarian bloggers. I’m amazed at how quickly this blog is capturing an audience with our subscriber numbers increasing and links coming into [...]

Apart from the library bloggers, that is ..
1.  Guy Kawasaki.  I love his writing style and nearly always learn something new.
2.  Stephen Downes.  Enjoy his tone of voice (and, of course the content.  I wish I could read as prolifically, and comment as succinctly as he does).  Actually the link is to his newsletter 
 3.  Garr [...]

Ok, so you’ve been meaning to learn about some of this web2.0 stuff but never quite got a round tuit.
Here is a round tuit -(Photo by douglasamcintosh on Flickr)
And here is your opportunity. Courtesy of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County - a list of 23 things.
… 23 Things (or [...]

What’s a collaborative blog for if not collective brain picking? I’d like to harvest some thoughts about which technologies/social software/new web tools you think libraries should be prepared for.
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We just wrapped up a two month project at work where we used a tikiwiki installation to look at new web tools using new web tools. For [...]