Long time readers of our blog will remember that we started the Virtual Libraries Interact blog back in late 2006 as a sister site to our blog. Unfortunately due to a number of reasons the Virtual Libraries Interact blog has been languishing for a while and no new posts have been added. It with some [...]

In early 2008, Flickr launched the Commons to showcase the public photo collections of libraries, museums and archives from around the world. The Library of Congress was the first to start adding their collections and New York Public Library (probably) the most recent. The two main objectives of the Commons are to increase access to [...]

NLS4 is well and truly over, bar the papers, which should be available soon. As usual, I have been busy since it was done. otherwise this post would have been done earlier. At the NLS4 Cocktail Party, the committee organised a couple of icebreaker events, one of which I just had to share here. We [...]

The Dept. of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has launched a blog to gather Australians’ thoughts and ideas about the digital economy.  The blog will apparently only be ‘open’ for two weeks, so get over there now if you want to share your ideas in this type of forum, and subscribe. There should be [...]

Need a jump start to your day? Then watch this 9minute clip of Mr Bean visiting a library and all the disasters that take place subsequently .. you will laugh and quite possibly cry as well! WARNING: Librarians who deal with rare books may find some scenes disturbing (seriously)

This funky story looks like it’s going to have a happy ending after all. Four of these folk were elected to their local council on the weekend (see the credits at the end of Georg’s updated copy of this video.)