Wow another month has flown by and its been busy, busy, busy throughout Australian library blogland.

The month began with LINT getting into the spirit of Australian Library Week by running a competition which started off as Get creative in May and soon became Your Library in 2010. Although we only had a few entries which didn’t come from LINT members (check out Kathryn’s great visual story), the quality was top class and our winner Andrew Finegan’s entry was also noted by several of the top US bloggers. If you haven’t seen the entries yet, check them all out. (Thanks to Ivan and Sue for your contributions also). Will be interesting to see if any of these visions come true in the next three years!

Trevor Wakely on the ALIAVic list, picked up on the ALIA blog which hasn’t had any new content on it since the end of last year and ALIA considered their e-list guidelines at their May meeting after the dramas on the ALIAVic list in April. Have yet to hear the outcome of those considerations.

Blisspix blogged here about May Day: saving our cultural heritage, which linked to the Australian organisations which picked up on the US initiative, to raise awareness. Kathryn blogged at Libarians Matter about the upcoming Barcamp and Unconferences in Perth. If you are in the area, make sure you get to both events, they are ones not to be missed.

Many blogs noted the implications from the Federal budget. ALIA gives a good analysis with regards to libraries. On the ALIA front again, the election was run and won - by a blogger! Derek Whitehead of Derek’s ALIA blog is the new vice-president (president elect), with Damian Lodge and Kate Watson being elected to the Board of Directors. Derek and Kate have also done a LINTerview for us - thanks!

Also of particular interest to libraries was the launch was ERA - Electronic Resources Australia - a new nationwide consortia managed by the National Library of Australia. There will be more coming out on that in the coming months.