tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24534060741398292862009-02-21T00:51:52.404-08:00Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658698808067149888noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453406074139829286.post-32323295872117506052008-07-06T21:51:00.000-07:002008-07-06T21:59:00.587-07:002008-07-06T21:59:00.587-07:00

The 5th International Library and Information Practice Conference is being held in Stockholm, Sweden in June-July 2009. I am on the International Program Committee for this conference and we have just started considering themes, possible guest speakers and possible topics for workshops. I co-wrote a presentation that my colleagues Lisa Cotter and Ingrid Tonnison presented at the 3rd EBLIP

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Its been quite a while since I posted to this blog and lots has happened. I've taken 6 months' leave from my position at the hospital library and am working at the nearby University of Newcastle campus library. After 10 years at the hospital I thought it was time to broaden my horizons, not to mention take a break from full-time work and management. At the University library I am doing mainly

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I have read a few interesting books lately about libraries. The first is Double Fold by Nicholson Baker. In this book Baker, a novelist, charts the destruction of many of the hard copy holdings of books and newspapers in US libraries as a result of an evangelical drive to microfilm and digitise in the 1960s to 1990s. He alleges that the destruction arose not from a need to preserve crumbling

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I'm still trying to get my head around Web 2.0 and Tim Berners-Lee is on YouTube talking about Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web. Check it out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVFY52CH6BcI am totally in awe of people like him who can make conceptual leaps to not just visualising the future but creating it.

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There are a few great You-Tube videos out there featuring libraries. These are just three. The first one features one of the old card catalogues which will bring back happy memories for some people (and not-so-happy ones for others):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0GmiSMNGIThe second is an hilarious medieval IT HelpDesk skit in Norwegian. Bear with it - its worthwhile.http://www.youtube.com/

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I have added a link to my del.icio.us favourites to have them handy. For anyone who has not yet discovered del.icio.us, it is a wonderful Web 2.0 technology that allows you to build up a library of links to favourites and access them anywhere. Yes - you don't have to be sitting at your own PC to access your favourites this way. You can also share favourites with others and tag them, organise them

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I've not really been interested in starting a blog previously. However now I'd like to get one going to gather all my librarian "stuff" together in one place. So I'm not expecting anyone other than me to read this. However if someone does stumble across it, here's some information about me. I'm a librarian, I live in Australian, I work in health, and my professional interests include evidence

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