We have a very happy and excited author here at Libraries Interact. Kathryn Greenhill has shared her very exciting news on her personal blog, but we want to make a fuss about her too. Kathryn has been awarded the VALA Travel Scholarship and will be heading off to the United States and Canada next year [...]

If you have been living under a rock, maybe you haven’t heard that the Shanachie Tour Down Under is on right now. Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer from the DOK, Delft Public Library are touring Australia, interviewing librarians and videoing some of the wonderful libraries in our country.  The videos are posted at their blog [...]

Libraries Interact already has an Aussie Library Blogs list which is great but it would also be nice to be able to chat with other people in the Australian Library Industry one on one Twitter is a popular new way for people with shared interests to chat with each other I know of quite a [...]

Yes, its nearly 15 months away, but its time to start thinking about VALA 2010.  The theme for this must-be-at-conference in 2010 is Connections. Content. Conversation. The invitation is out for interested persons “to submit abstracts relating to the use of information and communications technology for connecting, content and conversations across the galleries, libraries, archives [...]

A project, Reference Extract, is currently in the planning stage to build a web search engine with the search capabilities of Google and the results credibility of a librarian.  In a very small nutshell, the idea is to use the data from QuestionPoint Service to provide the web resources cited by librarians and to rank [...]

A two-day workshop on the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is being held on the 4th and 5th of December at the University of Sydney. Themes for this workshop are: scholarly publishing in the electronic environment business models and service frameworks establishing and maintaining publications and services experience sharing and establishing an Australian PKP community, and technical [...]

A very new blog has been launched to communicate developments in an ARROW project that focuses on managing names in institutional repositories. The project is just starting up and comments are being sought on a draft project plan. The NicNames Project