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1 day, 1 hour ago Rally against Internet Censorship. 13 Dec 2008
Around Australia, there will be rallies on Saturday 13 December 2008 against the government’s proposal to censor filter the internet. In Perth, this is 12 noon to 3pm at Stirling ...
Librarians Matter - 8:16 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
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4 days, 23 hours ago VALA Travel Scholarship
*squee* Happy Dance… Kieran Hixon and Judy van Acker are my new heroes. They are in John C Fremont Library, a small rural library in Colorado. They downloaded the Koha ...
Librarians Matter - 9:49 a.m. Thursday 27th November 2008
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5 days, 12 hours ago Evidence based fruitcake
This shouldn’t work. This should be disgusting. Fruitcakes are labours of love that involve vast quantities of ingredients and lard and liqueur and esoteric stirring rituals. You bake them in ...
Librarians Matter - 9:20 p.m. Wednesday 26th November 2008
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1 week, 1 day ago Two library unconferences last week - Brisbane and Nebraska.
My friend Peta has created a little video called library 2.0 unconference at SLQ. It is her impressions of last Thursday’s slq Unconference 2008: Web 2.0: Now what? . It’s ...
Librarians Matter - 2:35 p.m. Sunday 23rd November 2008
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1 week, 5 days ago Shanachies Down Under in Perth - video
Here is the Shanachie’s day with me and Con on Sunday, Perth Down Under - Perth Down Under from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo. We were going to film ...
Librarians Matter - 10:40 p.m. Wednesday 19th November 2008
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2 weeks ago CoverItLive blog of Shanachies in Perth
I’ve set up a liveblog of the Shanachies presentation this morning. While wireless lasts, I’ll be zipping my notes below:
Librarians Matter - 10:43 a.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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2 weeks, 1 day ago Shanchies tour Perth
I spent the day with the Shanachies - a pair of librarians from DOK (the library concept centre) in Delft in the Netherlands. Their mission is to “make stories, tell ...
Librarians Matter - 11:08 p.m. Sunday 16th November 2008
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2 weeks, 3 days ago Video and voice in chat in gmail.
Yup. Video and voice are now integrated into chat in gmail - but not yet via the gtalk stand alone client. A Skype-killer I would think? Cindi-cam via gtalk in ...
Librarians Matter - 10:49 a.m. Friday 14th November 2008
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2 weeks, 5 days ago Our paper about library unconferences
Con Wiebrands and I gave a paper about library unconferences last week at the LIANZA conference. You can find the whole 5000 or so words here: The unconference: a new ...
Librarians Matter - 9:05 a.m. Thursday 13th November 2008
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2 weeks, 5 days ago Information Literacy: Seven ways to think outside the box.
I met Liz Wilkinson from the University of Auckland at the LIANZA 2008 conference: Poropitia: Outside the Box. I was very impressed with an information literacy package she had helped ...
Librarians Matter - 12:24 p.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
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3 weeks ago CoverItLive: Karen Schneider and Lizanne Payne
This afternoon I will be standing in for Alyson Kosina from VALA to welcome attendees at the VALA-CAVAL 30 year anniversary event .Very, very happy to be doing this. Here ...
Librarians Matter - 1:56 p.m. Monday 10th November 2008
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3 weeks, 5 days ago Video of Lawrence Lessig: new literacies, takedown notices and trusting google
I made this little clip of question time in Lawrence Lessig’s keynote at the LIANZA conference. No powerpoints. No fancy fonts. Just plain talking, Lawrence Lessig: literacies, takedowns, trusting google ...
Librarians Matter - 4:01 a.m. Thursday 6th November 2008
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3 weeks, 6 days ago Why public singing should be a criteria for Australian librarians’ registration
Sorry, this isn’t actually a serious post - although I am very interested in the plans to bring in registration for New Zealand librarians. I think number one registration criteria ...
Librarians Matter - 11:07 p.m. Tuesday 4th November 2008
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4 weeks ago LIANZA 2008 Day Two Leadership, IM, Comics, Open Info and Gen Y
LIANZA 2008 has continued to be an open, warm and intellectually stimulating conference. I liveblogged the sessions I attended on CoverItLive, so there is much more detail here (keynotes) and ...
Librarians Matter - 6:47 p.m. Monday 3rd November 2008
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4 weeks, 1 day ago Sing More. Dance more. Relish the unexpected.
Today I sang with a group of people and felt timeless. Tonight I sang with a group of people and felt like I was 15 years old. Today I danced ...
Librarians Matter - 11:15 p.m. Sunday 2nd November 2008
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