According to Penny Carnaby, National Librarian and Chief Executive, of the National Library of New Zealand, the “New Generation National Library of New Zealand will be a library that never sleeps”. The building will be redeveloped to increase accessibility to the building and its contents, increase the building’s internal legibility (does that mean it will [...]

Icecream and gin seem to be the answer. Here’s two video clips for Friday. One explains how new technologies for production and grassroots customer feedback systems change the landscape in social media. The other suggests that if you want to be a social media consumer, you should forget the gin and TV and put your [...]

As of 2009, students doing their HSC in NSW will be able to take a course in studying Wikipedia. The course is “intended to teach students skills of analysis to enable them to be more discerning about content they find on the web”. (Don Carter – Board of Studies, NSW). Considering that a lot of [...]

In time for Library Week, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has launched a new information pack for public library staff, aimed at assisting them to promote safe internet use in-house, with a particular focus on children. Created with consultation from ALIA and staff from public libraries, the pack includes: Cybersmart Guide for Library [...]

The Live Search team at Microsoft recently announced that they are winding up their Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects. “Given the evolution of the Web and our strategy, we believe the next generation of search is about the development of an underlying, sustainable business model for the search engine, consumer, and content [...]

Yes, this is the last Carnival of the Infosciences (COTI). Chadwick put out the call for a new COTI administrator and no one answered the call. And would-be hosters were scarce with several carnivals being rained out in recent times. Now is the time to say farewell. Libraries Interact is very chuffed to be hosting [...]

If you are going to ALIA Dreaming 08 – the annual ALIA conference, or are thinking about going, then the program will be of interest to you.  The conference is being held in Alice Springs from 2nd to 5th September. Highlights of the program include keynotes from Martin Nakata, Anita Heiss, Loriene Roy, Inga Lunden, [...]

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released a snapshot yesterday, as part of Library & Information Week, detailing several facts about library usage in this country including: 46% of Australians aged over 18 years visited a library in 2006 72,600 Australians reported unpaid involvement in libraries and archives in April 2007 Libraries were the second most [...]

Oops, almost missed it Today marks the start of Library and Information Week 2008, running through to Sunday, 25th May. There’s a bunch of events planned including, but not restricted to: National Simultaneous Storytime National Library Technicians Day Biggest Morning Tea @ your library Please comment on what your library is doing this week.

Last year for Library and Information Week (LIW) we asked you for your visions of a library in 2010. You might like to revisit those posts to see what we were thinking a year ago… This year we are going to celebrate by hosting a Carnival of the Infosciences. The carnival has not been held [...]