Trove, the discovery layer for Australian library and digital collections, is now showing access conditions for individual libraries. The benefit of this enhancement is to inform users whether or not they can get access to the collections. Libraries that need to modify the access levels displayed against their holdings can do so through the Australian [...]

My daughter is in Grade 5 and has just completed a project on Leaders and Legends as part of a major unit at school. She did a short assignment on two legends from the sixties, a PowerPoint presentation on a political figure and a major assignment on Princess Grace. Which got me thinking about who [...]

Last week saw a horde of librarians descend on Brisbane for ALIAAccess. This is the conference you have when you are not having an IFLA conference. Some of us were unable to attend, although we enjoyed the tweets, or had a left-behind party to console ourselves. The tweets were great, but I’m ready for some more [...]

Louise Pieper from Gold Coast Public Libraries talks about why  abook club blog can build community and reduce social isolation. Public library users often resistant to more formal instruction in information literacy.  Customers don’t want to lose face or to be seen as ignorant or illiterate. They don’t want to be at school. Louse suggests that libraries: Be [...]

Day 1: ALIA Access Conference (Brisbane) Information literacy with Christine Bruce: Shift of focus from libraries to a much more global scale How do we make it relevant? How can we bring transformative power of information use to peoples lives? (Pat Breivik) Empowering! Experts on information literacy: Dr Lana W Jackman www.infolit.org – paradox don’t [...]