Finally we have a Twitter account. – @libsinteract We will be sending out a link to all new blog posts. We will also sometimes push out tidbitty news that doesn’t need its own blog post. And you can use it talk to the Thali via DM (direct message) – tell us a good story, flatter [...]

Facebook has released a new feature this past week – connections. Facebook released this feature to enable its users to make more connections, without the hard work of having to search for them. Details of the new features and how they will work with your profile are available at the Facebook blog – if you [...]

Mild panic has ensued on the web, with the announcement that Ning, the customisable social network, will cease its free service as of 4th May 2010. The changes are being made to better serve the current 75% of traffic, which comes to Ning sites that have opted for the paid service. These users will now [...]

I don’t think there’ve been many posts from the Thali recently. It might be worth reminding readers of the Thali’s existence – basically this is our name for the group of library folk which administers this blog. We’ve been working together as a team since we started this blog way back in 2006. There haven’t [...]

Been a busy week in Library Land this week and I have been wishing that I was elsewhere because of it. Firstly, I wanted to be in Washington DC, where the 2010 Computers in Libraries conference was held this week. I was fortunate to be able to attend CIL in 2007, so I know from [...]

Submissions close this Friday, 16th April – for submissions into this Inquiry into “school libraries and teacher librarians in Australian schools”. If you don’t already have a submission in or in process, there is another way to support the need for school libraries and librarians. This from ALIA: “You and your colleagues and friends can [...]

History Magazine has a ‘reprint’ of a 2001 article on the history of libraries online which is worth a read if you need to refresh your memories on the long and mostly illustrious timeline of libraries. It’s been years since I seriously read anything about the history of libaries and I found a few interesting [...]