In early 2008, Flickr launched the Commons to showcase the public photo collections of libraries, museums and archives from around the world. The Library of Congress was the first to start adding their collections and New York Public Library (probably) the most recent. The two main objectives of the Commons are to increase access to [...]

The Dept. of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has launched a blog to gather Australians’ thoughts and ideas about the digital economy.  The blog will apparently only be ‘open’ for two weeks, so get over there now if you want to share your ideas in this type of forum, and subscribe. There should be [...]

If you have been living under a rock, maybe you haven’t heard that the Shanachie Tour Down Under is on right now. Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer from the DOK, Delft Public Library are touring Australia, interviewing librarians and videoing some of the wonderful libraries in our country.  The videos are posted at their blog [...]

A very new blog has been launched to communicate developments in an ARROW project that focuses on managing names in institutional repositories. The project is just starting up and comments are being sought on a draft project plan. The NicNames Project

What do Deakin University, National Library of Australia, Kingston Information and Library Service and Zenith Management Services have in common? -The are the four organisations topping their sectors in the number of searches against Libraries Australia databases. The Libraries Australia annual report for 2007/08 is now available. While annual reports are not exactly exciting reading [...]

For almost everything you ever thought you might want to know about finding and using digital images for teaching, learning and research… TASI :: Advice – Finding and Using Digital Images Topics covered include: Finding historical images, using Flickr to organise a collection of images, finding maps, preparing images for publication, user issues and digital [...]

Anyone who has spent any time near the information desk in an academic library has heard about the EndNote software. Those of us who have been looking for alternatives generally choose the Zotero Firefox plugin for a whole range of different reasons. Whilst reading my RSS feeds this morning I came across a post entitled [...]

A new e-list with an Australian focus has been established for systems librarians. Renata Dyer from Information Services at The Treasury invites like-minded systems librarians to subscribe to the ALIA e-list called aliaLIBSYSTEMS. “The aim of this list is to provide communication among Australia-based library professionals who are involved in library systems management and/or employing [...]

Statistically Speaking is the name of the Australian Bureau of Statistics blog for “librarians and other like-minded information professionals featuring the latest information, news, tips and stories relating to the Australian Bureau of Statistics”. It is updated regularly, with about 4 to 5 posts each week, usually highlighting a new or relevant statistical release from [...]

Australian Newspapers beta, was recently released and after a short visit to the Courier Mail classifieds of Tuesday 12th April 1864, I can say that the user interface looks great. Users can correct errors in the OCR (optical character recognition) process of scanning the newspapers, add tags, navigate easily between daily editions and pages, and [...]