If only all our library marketing could be this original.

(from the Empty Pockets)
Marketing is a real issue for all types of libraries. Would love to hear of any ideas that you have for libraries that have worked, or you think could work. After watching this video, I would not consider any idea too [...]

They are now over for the kids but still leave plenty of work for me to do! One of the activities that worked really well for me was the “Girls Goss” session. Previously it l been hard to get the girls aged 8-15 to come in and use the library, let alone use it as [...]

This week the new-look ARROW Discovery Service was launched featuring faceted browsing, tag clouds and access to more statistics such as the most popular authors and institutions.  The ARROW Discovery Service includes metadata records harvested from institutional research repositories across Australia and from the Australasian Digital Thesis Program.
Faceted searching enables results to be refined by [...]

Apologies to the NSLA , I got my facts wrong in the last post (The Big Bang: Creating the new library universe ). Caused by reading an email too quickly.
The Big Bang document that I mentioned was actually a preliminary paper from July 2007, designed to stimulate discussion as NLSA worked toward [...]

I didn’t make up the title - it’s an Exposure Draft produced by National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA). (PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT FOOT OF THIS POST )
It is a look into how these libraries will cope with future service demands and encourage “flexibility, rapid response and innovation within the library sector”. It is just [...]

Do you have 40 minutes for some free professional development? You can attend Peter Morville’s presentation on search patterns for the IA (Information Architecture) Summit. The slides and audio are available from SlideShare and showcases innovative search interfaces and features.

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Adobe has joined the ranks of online image editors by launching their new free service, Adobe Photoshop Express beta.  It offers crop and rotate, correct, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup and much more, making it a direct competitor to services such as  Picnik and Phixr.

It also offers photo sharing and online galleries, which brings it into [...]

If you read library blogs - well, other than librariesinteract.info - you may have wondered what some of these library bloggers look like.
Cindi Trainor made a series of portraits of librarians while she was at the recent Computers in Libraries conference in the US. Recent visitors to Australia, Michael Stephens and Helene Blowers , [...]

Thanks to Joanna for bringing this to our attention. Holdings of Australian libraries who are contributors to the Australian National Bibliographic database are now appearing in Worldat search results. I have been waiting for this for quite some time now. It’s time to start thinking about possibiliites for using this data in the WorldCat context [...]

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 [...]