This post is inspired by “5 Things I didn’t realize I’d be working on….. (when I decided to become a librarian)” at the ACRLog.  Although when I first read it, I knew I would have to adapt it.  Firstly, because I decided to become a librarian at age 11 and secondly because I have already [...]

On 21st April, the World Digital Library was launched. The World Digital Library brings together digitised primary documents including rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs, from countries around the world, with content available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Inspired by James Billington from the Library of Congress in 2004, it [...]

This week’s Monday Muse is about the Darien Statements. At the risk of stating the obvious, Libraries Interact’s Kathryn Greenhill is one of the authors of the Darien Statements. Libraries Interact has no official spokespeople, so it’s not for me or anyone else to say that we collectively endorse it or not, but it’s definitely [...]

This morning I’m pleased to report that an updated version of our popular THALI Tags page has been released. This new version is using the Diverse Group Tag Cloud plugin that we’ve been developing. The THALI Tags page is a tag cloud that is generated by using content analysis of posts on our individual blogs, [...]

The topic of Australia’s proposed Internet Filter has been mentioned here on Libraries Interact before. Recently there were three interesting views of the issue that I came across. First was the Web of secrecy article on the Unleashed by Mark Pesce: It began with a blacklist. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has one – [...]

The Library Society of the World has been around for a couple of years – many of the LINT team are members, some of us even active in it.  From their wiki: “The Library Society of the World is a loose group of librarians, archivists, information professionals, and information educators dedicated to promoting libraries and [...]

This statement comes from LIANZA – via LISNews.org LIANZA welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister that Section 92A of the Copyright Act is going to be repealed and that the Government proposes to introduce a much fairer copyright provision to prevent unlawful downloads from the Internet. LIANZA reiterates its support for clear copyright law [...]

The Monday Muse is a new experiment we’re trying at Libraries Interact. Although comments are very welcome on all of our posts, on the Monday Muse, the comments are the purpose of the post. The plan is that every other Monday, we’ll host a discussion on some topic of interest to Australian libraries. Today’s topic [...]

Sue Hutley  writes at the ALIA Board blog to encourage members to vote in the Board election. Sue reports that the member survey in 2008 had around 1000 responses of which 83% indicated they would use online voting if it was available. Well it is, and it’s easy – I know, I’ve voted. But as [...]