- Posted on behalf of Michael Stephens – Dear Australian library colleagues, You may have seen the announcement earlier this year where I was appointed as the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar. My research, “Measuring the Value and Effect of Learning 2.0 Programs in Libraries” will evaluate the impact of Learning 2.0 programs in Australia and [...]

According to a recent study from Harvard, file sharing and copyright as they stand at present, are beneficial to society. The working paper “File sharing and Copyright” from economists at the Harvard Business School,  raised important issues including: File sharing has not discouraged creative production. Although album sales have fallen, the number of albums being [...]

Some of the work that the THALI has put into the Libraries Interact blog is featured in a chapter in the just released Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data published by Information Today, Inc. The chapter focuses on the three plugins that we have developed to extend the Libraries Interact blog and [...]

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Library recently gave students the chance to win $1,000 in the UTS LIB:Flicks 2009 competition. Students submitted short videos (less than 2min) to promote UTS Library services and resources to new undergraduate students The winners were announced the other day at a premier event held in the Library and [...]

In news just to hand, the lawsuit filed by Thomson Reuters (EndNote) against Zotero has been dismissed. I have three thoughts on this: Thank goodness How many libraries actively promote Zotero for their users? I got this news via Twitter – it’s becoming a really good source for news.

ALIA today launched its Twitter presence using the name @ALIANational. I’m looking forward to seeing how this works out. There are different challenges for an association as opposed to a personal Tweeter. Follow and take part in this new way of conversing with your professional association. Australian Library & Information Association (ALIANational) on Twitter