If you haven’t already heard about and signed up to this one, you’re either not mobile centric, or not in Australian social media library circles.  And if you’re not, then I recommend you get in there, because so much good goes on there. But that is beside the point. What is ANZ 23 Mobile Things? [...]

From Sam Laird at Mashable Tech… “when it comes to encouraging people to embrace the written word, e-readers trump their physical counterparts.” – Are Books Doomed? The Rise of E-Reading [INFOGRAPHIC] But from Dan Turner at UX Magazine… “Reading on an iPad, or a tablet, just isn’t the same as reading a book. And for [...]

IATUL 2012 (Conference of International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries) is on now live in Singapore. Since the time zone is not too different from Australia there should be plenty of timely tweets in our stream to get a feel for what’s going on at the conference. The conference runs until the 7th [...]

It has been a long time since I last contributed to the Libraries Interact blog. In that time I’ve changed jobs a number of times and I am now working as a Senior Software Engineer for the Serval Project. The goal of the Serval Project is to write software that supports communication in the absence of mobile [...]

Heads up for an innovative professional development opportunity – the inaugural Intelligent Information Symposium, to be held in Sydney on 3rd and 4th May 2012. The 1.5 day program is designed “so delegates can interact with speakers and vendors who have backgrounds in social media, taxonomy, information and records management, research, knowledge management, mobility, information [...]

Recently, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) at the University of Phoenix Research Institute released their report – Future Work Skills 2020. IFTF is renowned for its work using advancing foresight methodologies and use a range of techniques, including using gaming to crowd-source foresights. This report examines key drivers of change that will change the [...]

As many of us are back at work, its time to consider what the New Year is going to bring to our libraries. And as VALA 2012 is fast approaching, its only appropriate that we look at tech trends. Mashable recently listed its 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012.  They are: Augmented reality Micro-payment [...]

Internet Librarian 2011, with the theme “Revolutionizing the Net with Content, Connections & Conversations”, is heading into its last day at Monterey, California – but its not too late to watch the Live Stream (if you’re a night owl), or follow the live action from the participants views on Twitter. (follow the hash tag #IL2011 [...]

  Definitely worth a look… And have a play with the ngram viewer. I used the terms ‘libraries’ and ‘librarians’. There was a peak in 1970s and a decline since then. Uh oh! Or does this just mean that those topics are now being written about in non-book formats?

It’s been a long time since we published a LINTerview, but last week Jo tweeted about a staff award her team had won, and one tweet led to another and to a blog post… Jo is Youth Outreach Librarian at Logan Library Service in Queensland.  Logan has 280,000 residents, 63 suburbs, 9  libraries spread across [...]