Yesterday I attended ETD2005 as a volunteer. My duties were to monitor sessions and walk with the roving microphone during question time. I handed the microphone to a range of interesting people and chatted to others at the registration desk. In between, I got to listen to some of the papers.
Grame Barty of […]
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Despite my recent money saving travel tips, we’ve just booked a trip to Singapore in mid-January for a family trip. This much travel is bordering on hectic, even for me. It’s been a while since I’ve been to Asia, apart from visiting Japan last year, I was last in the region when I went […]
The good thing about RAILS was that I think I’ve finally hit on a new avenue of research to pursue. For a while, I’ve been thinking about what direction to head in. I’m not particularly interested in most of the research interests in Australian LIS schools at the moment. I’m not into informaiton seeking, or […]
Off the RAILS
Published by September 19th, 2005 in Associations, Conferences and Research/Writing. 1 CommentOver the weekend I attended the Research Applications in Information and Library Studies Seminar (RAILS2) at the National Library in Canberra. It was one of those conferences where I came away with mixed feelings. I attended because I have a very strong interest in research, and in particular, encouraging new voices and new graduates to […]
Import existing references into CiteULike
Published by September 6th, 2005 in Library technology, Research/Writing and Open Source. 1 CommentGood news for CiteULike fans, you can now import BibTeX files and save having to recreate reference lists all over again. I’m an EndNote user (unfortunately) so it’s a two step-process for me - the first to convert my references to BibTeX (using an output filter) and then to check that the references have a […]
Breaking the blog-break, here we go.
The decision in the Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v Sharman License Holdings Ltd [2005] FCA 1242 case (Kazaa) has been handed down (Kazaa plan to appeal).
Weatherall’s blog has some excellent commentary about the case and the likely ramifications of it. I think the case also has some implications for […]
