Learning our Library 101

Both entertaining and enlightening, the Library 101 project has just been launched by David Lee King and Michael Porter.  Aimed at inspiring us to integrate past, present and future librarian skills in order to continue thriving in a changing environment, the project is collaborative and ongoing.  Check out their ‘music video’ below for a fun [...]

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Discussion Paper Two now available

Hi everyone, Discussion Papers I and II are now available to download on our Resources page.  These give a good overview of the project and preliminary findings so far, so be sure to check them out!  Comments, thoughts, and opinions are all very welcome and encouraged, so please do let us know what you think.

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The library – warehouse for books or community gathering centre?

CNN has an interesting article looking at the ways in which libraries and librarians are continuing to evolve in response to increased digitisation of information and use of social technologies.  Highlights include: Library 2.0… People used to go online for the same information they could get from newspapers. Now they go to Facebook, Digg and [...]

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Librarians responding to the digital age

Bloggers from Follow the Reader have posted a recent interview with two library professionals about how they are perceiving some of the challenges of the digital age for libraries.  From the blog post: As digital publishing options become more and more prevalent, libraries of all kinds are working to incorporate digital into their collections and [...]

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A new approach to defining library 2.0

An article has just been published in the newest issue of the Journal of Documentation that attempts to answer the question “What is library 2.0?” from the perspective of library professionals.  (For those without access to the journal you can check out a related presentation here.) Researchers from Åbo Akademi University in Finland used a [...]

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Upcoming “librarian 2.0″ presentations

Some upcoming presentations have now been added to the blog (see the Resources page for a complete list of presentations): Partridge, H. (2009) Becoming librarian 2.0. Paper to be presented at the CAVAL People in the Information Profession Conference, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, 15-16 October 2009. Partridge, H. (2009) Librarian 2.0: The most adaptable to [...]

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Twitter for librarians

For anybody wanting to become more familiar with the ways that microblogging service Twitter is being used by libraries and librarians, an article in the May edition of Computers in Libraries by Sarah Milstein gives a brief overview: For many people, the word “twitter” brings to mind birds rather than humans. But information professionals know [...]

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Competencies for the social networking literate librarian

Recently another conference paper discussing ‘librarian 2.0′ competencies has been made available online via the E-prints in Library and Information Science archive (E-LIS).  The paper, “Social Networking Literacy Competencies for Librarians: Exploring Considerations and Engaging Participation” by Joe Murphy and Heather Moulaison, was presented earlier this year at the 14th National ACRL Conference, and discusses some [...]

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Recent Campus Review article about the changing face of librarians

A recent article in Campus Review talks about some of the ways that academic libraries (and consequently librarians) are changing in response to increased digitisation of resources.  From the article: The next generation of professional librarians are enrolled in information management degrees. They need to be given the explosion in digital information, reports Jeremy Gilling. [...]

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Twenty-one reasons for librarians to find time to learn about new technologies…

Recently EDUCAUSE Australasia 2009 took place from 3-6 May in Perth, Western Australia.  One of the presenters there was Kathryn Greenhill, a librarian working at Murdoch University Library who also maintains her own blog.  She presented a paper titled “Why Learning about Emerging Technologies is Part of Every Librarian’s Job”, which you can read by clicking [...]

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