Recently I stumbled across this post on the ABC Unleashed website by Lucy Saunders. It presents an interesting way at looking at issues that we’ve posted about before [1] [2] [3] [4]. From the post:
Enjoy your unfiltered internet access while it lasts. As we speak, the government is hard at work building a device to [...]

The National Library of Australia has launched "Library Labs", a wiki to share news with colleagues about what the NLA is doing in the redevelopment of digital library services using service-oriented architecture and open source software solutions. Comments, suggestions and feedback is welcome via the wiki.
Four different prototypes are described including the NBD prototype, Beta [...]

Last Saturday Tim Spalding, from LibraryThing, posted about how you can use Google Book Search as a source of cover images. You can read all about it at the Thingology blog. Tim says that the code is a little rough, but it does provide a working example.
With this technique for getting book covers from Google [...]

Today I’ve released an updated version of our popular Aussie Library Blogs page. The page is now built dynamically created using a WordPress plugin that I’ve created with the assistance of the other THALI members. This new way of managing the list of Aussie Library Blogs is exciting in a number of ways including:

It is [...]

Commoncraft have released Online photosharing in Plain English . Enjoy.

The AAF project is working to develop infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications within and between research and higher education institutions to support world-class research. The idea is that each institution in the federation would trust the authentication credentials of other members’ users to provide improved, authorised acccess. The AAF model for federated access management [...]

On the 10th of October, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation (QULOC) hosted a seminar at the Garden’s Point campus of Queensland University of Technology. The seminar was organised by the ICT Working Party and featured presentations, demonstrations and hands-on sessions focused on social software.
Despite a stormy Brisbane morning there was a full-house of attendees, many [...]

Michael Stephens has announced the dates for his seminars in Australia next February and March 2008, through CAVAL:
The Hyperlinked Library: Trends, Tools and Transparency - an Expert Forum with Michael Stephens
No doubt there will be plenty of opportunities for TTW readers and fellow bloggers to meet and greet as well!

Future of the Book is working with Digital Library Federation on “what could become a major iniative aroudn the question of mass digitization..”. The goal of the project “is to shed light on the big questions about future accessibility and usability of analog culture in a digital, networked world.”
They have run invited brainstorm sessions in [...]

The National Film and Sound Archive, National Archives of Australia, and National Library of Australia have published a media release proposing a government investment of AUD$90m over the next four years to manage the digital tidal wave of images and sounds. Access Economics examined the proposal and commented that
 “ The benefits are significant and in large part accrue [...]