Christmas 2010 is likely to be heavy on the gadgets with smart phones, tablets and e-readers being heavily promoted. Is your library ready to take advantage to promote reading, and your ebook collections? There are about 25 library services in Australia offering ebooks via the Overdrive digital media service according to a quick look at [...]

Fresh from the press, a leaked presentation to Yahoo’s internal staff, has shown that amongst other things, they will be shutting down delicious, the pioneering social bookmarking website. Yahoo has laid off quite a few staff of late and as a result is consolidating its products: shutting down some, merging others and putting their emphasis [...]

And here’s the 2010 National Library of Australia staff Christmas party event: “An interpretation of copyright law – Puttin’ on the Writs”. You can also check their very entertaining, 2009 event at You Tube.

Somehow we missed it. Last Friday, 10th December was Melvil Dewey’s birthday. The man whose name is vaguely familiar, even to non-librarians, was born 159 years ago on that day. Although I am not a cataloguer, I can very much appreciate the magnitude of what Dewey produced. When visiting OCLC in 2007, I was thrilled [...]