A few weeks back I attended the Gold Coast regional meeting for ALIA’s National Advisory Congress. The actual congress is next week in Alice Springs, but the minutes from the regional meetings are now available on the ALIA website. The focus is professional development. Skimming through the minutes of these regional meetings it’s clear that [...]

Anyone interested in the development of research repositories might like to go to this upcoming ARROW event in Brisbane. “Repositories : into the future” will be held at Customs House in Brisbane on Tuesday the 14th October. It is followed the next day by ARROW Community Day at Queensland University of Technology. Details: News and [...]

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 [...]

Unnameable Books, a Brooklyn bookstore, recently featured in Gothamist after they created an in-store display of all the oddities they have found in used books. Also mentioned in the post was the discoveries that AbeBooks have made over time. So let’s share – what have you found in returned library books/secondhand books or… your own books? I [...]

More than 40 Australians attended the annual IFLA Congress which wrapped up in Quebec City, Canada, on Thursday. I was thrilled to be able to attend for the first time and see what happens when more than 3300 librarians from around 150 countries get together. As a member of IFLA’s staff, I worked behind the [...]

Our website has become very popular lately and our server has occasionally had some difficulty in keeping up. You may have seen an error recently when trying to login to the site for example. In an effort to smooth things out I will be undertaking some early spring cleaning. In particular looking at our database [...]

Zotero users wanting to collaborate on reference collections, or access their collections from multiple computers might be interested in this post from Michael Rees describing how he uses Windows Live Mesh with Zotero. If you can’t wait for Zotero 1.5, this might be an option for you. Only for Windows devices so far, Live Mesh [...]

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 [...]

We don’t often reproduce entire posts from other blogs here, but this one justifies it. Let’s add some Aussie content to the Porter / Lee King song! From Micheal Porter at LibraryMan blog: YOUR Chance to Star in a Libraryland Music Video!!! From the last post you can see that David and I recorded a [...]