Have librarians got Google Goggles on? Are we not using other search engines/strategies as much as we used to for general internet searching? I’m not really thinking about specific database here – more just what do we turn to for searching the free internet. iLibrarian had a post recently 100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should [...]

The Library 2.0 Gang is running a competition for the best library mashup idea.  It doesn’t have to be a working prototype, just an idea of how libraries could use mashups to provide awesome service to their users.  “The only restriction being that it must include library data or functionality somewhere within it.” The competition [...]

Some of the work that the THALI has put into the Libraries Interact blog is featured in a chapter in the just released Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data published by Information Today, Inc. The chapter focuses on the three plugins that we have developed to extend the Libraries Interact blog and [...]

Do you have a story to tell about how you are using creative commons licenses? Or maybe you’d like to find some examples of how others are using CC licenses. Case Studies – CC Wiki Some examples: Ancient Free Gardeners – “Open content licensing was chosen as the band saw the great potential in using [...]

On 21st April, the World Digital Library was launched. The World Digital Library brings together digitised primary documents including rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs, from countries around the world, with content available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Inspired by James Billington from the Library of Congress in 2004, it [...]

This week’s Monday Muse is about the Darien Statements. At the risk of stating the obvious, Libraries Interact’s Kathryn Greenhill is one of the authors of the Darien Statements. Libraries Interact has no official spokespeople, so it’s not for me or anyone else to say that we collectively endorse it or not, but it’s definitely [...]

This morning I’m pleased to report that an updated version of our popular THALI Tags page has been released. This new version is using the Diverse Group Tag Cloud plugin that we’ve been developing. The THALI Tags page is a tag cloud that is generated by using content analysis of posts on our individual blogs, [...]

The list is out.  Library Journal has announced their 2009 Movers and Shakers. There are many well-deserved names on this years list and many others who I am looking forward to finding out more about.  Check out the Library Journal Movers and Shakers 2009 list and the links to their respective blogs (courtesy of Bobbi [...]

January has been busier than usual with stuff being released and conferences galore including Information Online, RAILS 5, and ALA Midwinter. NLS4 have announced in recent days that most papers are now available, and images have been flowing into their flickr group. Around the traps, the new issue of the Australian Library Journal has just [...]

Readers of the Libraries Interact blog will know that we’ve written before about the plans that the Australian Government has for filtering the Internet. Some of us have written about it on our personal blogs, and I’ve collected some news stories and put them up on Delicious. Today I came across this post by David [...]