Been offline over the weekend? You may have missed the news on HarperCollins new licences for ebooks for libraries. This came to the attention of librarians via a message from Overdrive CEO Steve Potash, who did not actually mention the publisher’s name. HarperCollins confirmed it was the publisher in question. Two key things to note [...]

Are you a creative digital artist, photographer, icon maker, masher-upper or just a clever dabbler ? If so, use your talents for libraryland good. SAVE THE DATE Library Camp Australia 2011 is being held in Perth on 19 September 2011, 9am to 4pm at the State Library of Western Australia. This will be an unconference [...]

It’s Library Lovers’ Day. With ebook readers now taking off, what will this mean for the personal library? Many readers love their print collections and agonise over weeding them come time for moving house, or running out of storage space. With ebook purchases we are not ‘buying’ a book in the same sense of ‘sale’ [...]

Now that you are all returned from Online, its time to start thinking about the next big thing – VALA 2012. The call for papers was opened at the Online conference, but details are now available online at the VALA Website. The theme is eM-powering eFutures, with lots of topics to work with. Many topics [...]

It’s been two days since I returned from Information Online and I woke up from a dream about writing a blog post so here it is. My takeaways from the conference are: Break the rules @thelib – Sarah Houghton encouraged conference participants to be prepared to break some rules in order to deliver the services [...]

There is a depressingly long list of libraries threatened with closure in the UK at the end of this video. Listen to their community’s heartfelt pleas to save them. We Love Libraries