It’s time to register to attend Information Online 2009, the leading conference and exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region for Librarians, Information/Knowledge managers and the online information industry. Get an early bird discount for Information Online 2009 by registering before November 7th! ALIA members get a further discount off the regular conference registration price Information Online [...]

The University of Michigan Library will be licensing all of it’s creative works under a creative commons license. They will be incorporating the license into their website and it will cover bibliographies, research guides, tutorials and lesson plans. In the great library tradition of resource sharing, licensing content in this way makes good sense, and [...]

Neil Godfrey, over at Metalogger, has made a detailed comparison of support and functionality for institutional repository solutions,INFORMAL comparison of some institutional repository solutions. It is a great starting point for anyone setting up a repository or wondering whether there is a better solution than what they are currently using. He explains the comparison like this: [...]

What do Deakin University, National Library of Australia, Kingston Information and Library Service and Zenith Management Services have in common? -The are the four organisations topping their sectors in the number of searches against Libraries Australia databases. The Libraries Australia annual report for 2007/08 is now available. While annual reports are not exactly exciting reading [...]

The photographs in this Wired Magazine article are inspirational. The article is about Jay Walker’s private library. Can we make our institutional libraries more like this? “About a dozen years ago, my collection got so big that I said, ‘It’s time to build a room, a library, that would be about human imagination.” — Jay [...]

Following the conference on Open Access and Research held in September in Australia, and hosted by Queensland University of Technology, the following statement was developed and has the endorsement of over sixty participants. Brisbane Declaration Preamble The participants recognise Open Access as a strategic enabling activity, on which research and inquiry will rely at international, [...]

For almost everything you ever thought you might want to know about finding and using digital images for teaching, learning and research… TASI :: Advice – Finding and Using Digital Images Topics covered include: Finding historical images, using Flickr to organise a collection of images, finding maps, preparing images for publication, user issues and digital [...]

Registrations for the second slq Library 2.0 UnConference are now open. THEME:    Web 2.0. Now what?  DATE:       Thursday 20 November 2008 TIME:         8:30 – 4:30 (coffee available from 8:30am, post-conference drinks from 4:30pm). VENUE:     State Library of Queensland COST:       $40 (includes an admission entry to the Game On exhibition being held at slq, and all [...]