Last year Indigenous Literacy Day raised over $250,000 to address literacy problems in remote indigenous communities. Wednesday the 3rd of September is ILD 2008. Funds raised on the day through participating booksellers’ and publishers’ sales, school events and other donations will be put to work at the Fred Hollows Foundation in the provision of literacy [...]

Today is the first day of Information Awareness Month. The ‘month’ is a collaborative event supported by Australian Library & Information Association, Records Management Association Australia, the Institute of Information Management, the Australian Society of Archivists, the Health Information Management Association of Australia, the Public Record Office Victoria, and the National Archives of Australia. Its [...]

Another professional development opportunity at the State Library of Queensland. And it’s free too. Power to the people through public access computing: a presentation and workshop by Dr Karen Fisher Dr Karen Fisher – Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Karen’s research and teaching focus is information behavior (social and cognitive [...]