Anyone who has spent any time near the information desk in an academic library has heard about the EndNote software. Those of us who have been looking for alternatives generally choose the Zotero Firefox plugin for a whole range of different reasons. Whilst reading my RSS feeds this morning I came across a post entitled [...]

Nominations for VALA travel scholarships and the VALA award for innovative use of information technology close on the 27th of October. The VALA award is open to all libraries and information centres in Australia. It is presented every two years and applications implemented between July 2006 and June 2008 are eligible. The travel scholarships include [...]

A new e-list with an Australian focus has been established for systems librarians. Renata Dyer from Information Services at The Treasury invites like-minded systems librarians to subscribe to the ALIA e-list called aliaLIBSYSTEMS. “The aim of this list is to provide communication among Australia-based library professionals who are involved in library systems management and/or employing [...]

The papers from ALIA Biennial Conference (Dreaming 08) are now available from the ALIA conference site. Congratulations to the organisers on the quick turn around. The conference finished on the 5th of September and the papers are accessible before the end of the month. ALIA Biennial Conference 2008 program.

We’ve had a few posts about repositories lately, and here’s another one. Research repositories are playing a major role in furthering open access to research papers, but of course they are not the only factor in the open access movement. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library [...]

Although there is some inaccuracy, it is good to see reporting on the work Australian universities are undertaking in research repositories and the open access movement. Access remains an open secret by Bernard Lane | The Australian If you are wondering about the innacuracy..Fedora was not developed by the University of Queensland. UQ developed Fez [...]

I originally posted this on the blog at MPOW. I’m interested in the thoughts of readers here at Libraries Interact and in particular anything you may have heard about the debate currently underway in Australia about mandatory open access policies. A recent article on the ars technica website entitled “Congress’s copyright fight puts open access [...]

It’s on again, applications to attend Aurora in 2009 opened on Monday, 15 Sept 2008. Most comments I’ve heard suggest this a great learning opportunity, and particularly beneficial for those with leadership aspirations. ALIA has maintained a list of testimonials.

We at Libraries Interact are keen watchers of the Library Journal Movers and Shakers awards announced March each year, so perked up when we heard that the nominations were open for the 2009 awards. For those new to Movers and Shakers, this from the LJ Website: “The editors of Library Journal need your help in [...]

The WordPress blogging platform is, I believe, one of the most popular platforms for blogging. I know many places use the WordPress.org version (including Libraries Interact), individuals use the WordPress.com version, and some institutions are using the WordPress MU version as well. My place of work is one of them, using it to host a [...]