The NLA project to add contemporary photos to PictureAustralia via Flickr is now live [Via Jessamyn]. Instructions for adding photos to the two groups are available and there’s already several hundred photos available. Most of my photos on Flickr are of holidays, but I’ve added my pictures from the 2005 Sculpture by […]
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Published by January 31st, 2006 in General, Library technology, Public libraries and Commons. 0 CommentsBack from Singapore, where we had an interesting 6 days. As I previously mentioned, it has been a long time since I had a holiday in South-East Asia.
As this was a family trip (11 people in all) I didn’t get to arrange any tours to the National Library or library@orchard (though I would have loved […]
NLS2006: call for papers now open
Published by January 16th, 2006 in Conferences and Research/Writing. 2 CommentsThe call for papers for NLS2006 is now open! Please feel free to contact me if you are interested and need more information (I’m the programme coordinator). Abstracts should be submitted electronically using the form at – http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/programme/callforpapers.php
Today I did something I wasn’t planning on doing - I joined APSA (the American Political Science Association). As I’ve recently written, I’ve been on the hunt for a new field of research and information policy was my ‘aha’ moment. I had been thinking of joining another, smaller, subject based association, but I had […]
Oh, wow.
But I don’t plan to buy one just yet. My 4-year-old G3 iBook is doing just fine for the moment, and I’m never one to buy 1st generation products. This is probably a purchase for mid 2007, when I’m hoping they’ll introduce a smaller size. Apple, my laptop bag only fits a 12.1″ laptop. […]
I’m currently experimenting with using Flickr to catalogue my fabric stash. As any crafter will tell you, stashes can be hard to manage and organise, and they quickly overflow.
There are several people using Flickr for this purpose -
Fabric stash photoset
Quilt fabrics
Flickr tag - stash
Flickr stash cluster
Already I’ve run into a couple of issues […]
The ultimate game
Published by January 6th, 2006 in Library technology and Public libraries. 1 CommentA post at Joy’s Wanderings today reminded me of an idea I had 3 or 4 years ago. Joy asks -
“Could games take the place of on-line tutorials at library websites?”
When The Sims first came out, I thought it would be really great if there could be a game in the same vein which […]
An article at the Chronicle of Higher Education today talks about the pitfalls of interviewing for jobs where there are internal candidates. It quickly falls into rant territory, which is a shame because it’s a topic that otherwise should be covered more often.
Example -
It all starts with the search committee. Beware if it’s […]
Coming just under a year from now to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney -
Un Art Une Histoire 1965-2005, New Media Collection Pompidou
This exhibition presents an overview of how video has developed, drawing on the video and multimedia works in the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. The […]
A gem from today’s Sydney Morning Herald Column 8. Everyone knows obituaries are pre-written and recorded by the media, right? Some organisations review them regularly, others only when they think they might need them. At the ABC -
Alphabetical index cards were kept in the film library, allowing obituaries to be located quickly, by surname, […]
