I’m a Gold Coaster, and the first I heard about this story was from a tweet about a Library Journal (US publication) article. Queensland, Australia: City Looks to Commercialise #Libraries ow.ly/kt34S via @infodocket Tip: @mattrweaver — Library Journal (@LibraryJournal) April 26, 2013 A short time later I found the article on our local newspaper website [...]
The State Library of Queensland is hosting a forum today with some of my favourite tweeps speaking/participating. How do libraries reassert their identity as providers of balanced and significant information in the age of Google? That’s the question of the day. Follow the hashtag #LiGW2012 on Twitter or you can see them captured as a [...]
008 is unassigned so once again some latitude in this post. I found a post on Buzzfeed about 8 bad-assed libraries. Check out the selection of quite awesome library buildings. Which library that you have visited has the most eye-catching, mind-boggling architecture? Links to your photos would be great. The one that I found [...]
“If you were designing the sort of information-processing system a brain is, it would be extremely impractical to store memories permanently in their original form. You need mechanisms for transforming and recording them; for chunking information into categories. Is your memory a phonograph record on which the information is stored in localized grooves to be [...]
A new website and non-profit organisation has just been launched – Library Renewal “We are amazed by the accomplishments of the organizations currently delivering electronic content – companies like Apple (iTunes), Netflix, Hulu and Amazon – and believe a core question guiding our work must be: “If they can do this so well, why aren’t [...]
Benjamin Wheal from the South Australian Library & Information Network (SALIN) Committee wrote to tell us about their latest exploit. He writes…. “We’re a grass-roots, unaffiliated group which creates networking and professional development opportunities for people in the Library sector in South Australia (especially for newer graduates). In 2010 we’re 10 years young. This [...]
Nominations are now open for both these prestigious library awards. The Library Journal Movers and Shakers Awards recognise excellence in librarians across a wide range of disciplines, not just technology. They are a great way for applauding the wonderful work librarians do to elevate our services and our profession and to improve the services, organisation [...]
n two days it will be 10/10/10 (10th of October 2010). ALIA is promoting a library top ten lists campaign and has invited anyone to create a list of top 10s. In this set of webslides I’m not sure these are THE top 10, but they are 10 top links to inspire a green library [...]
Trove, the discovery layer for Australian library and digital collections, is now showing access conditions for individual libraries. The benefit of this enhancement is to inform users whether or not they can get access to the collections. Libraries that need to modify the access levels displayed against their holdings can do so through the Australian [...]
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