In September a program of regional meetings for ALIA members was conducted to gather members’ input to guide the professional organisation. The consultation focussed on lobbying and advocacy, local issues and reviewing outcomes of the 2008 topic – professional development. The reports from the regional meetings are now available on the ALIA website. Just a [...]

This coming Movember we issue a call to Australia’s library workers: become a Mo-brarian and join the fight to change the face of men’s health. Movember, the formerly useless and boring month of November, has been remade with the addition of a little facial hair. Now a global charity phenomenon, Movember creates much-needed awareness while [...]

Last year we reported that the National Library of Australia’s newspaper digitisation project had kicked off and that one of its features was that users could correct mistakes in the optical character recognition process. A review of this crowdsourcing has been available for some time, but only just came to my attention via eGov.au Rose [...]

Yet another post about VALA Kate Davis and her partner in crime, Carolyn McDonald, are working to complete their VALA paper (they have an extension…honest guv! but they need lots of folk to complete their survey. Full details can be found on Kate’s blog but briefly they are exploring the relationship between IT and libraries. [...]

This just in from VALA: “****Information technology award**** VALA is inviting nominations for its most prestigious award, the Robert D. Williamson Award 2010, and we’d like them by Monday 15 November 2009 (but keep them secret!). This biennial award, always a surprise to its recipient, is presented to an individual or organisation who or which [...]

Library unconference fever has hit Perth again with libcampperth09 kicking off this morning. Live coverage should be available from the unconference wiki using Coveritlive – although at time of writing it still says “Upcoming Event”. In addition a Twitter fountain can be seen on Kathryn Greenhill’s blog “Librarians Matter”. This year, Michael Stephens is attending [...]