Innovative Users Group

Surprising the information you stumble upon when reading newsletters such as the latest innovative News for December 2007. this one has reference to our own Lisa B.

IUG "Flickrs" On
The Innovative Users Group (IUG) has started a Flickr photo pool. It's a cool way to check out what other member libraries are doing around the world. Recently added to the pool is an image (left) of attendees at the 2007 IUG Annual Conference in San Jose, California, as captured by Lisa Billingham of Edith Cowan University (Australia). The new Flickr pool is run independently of Innovative by the IUG. Please contact IUG through Flickr for posting guidelines. You can find an IUG in your corner of the world on the IUG website.

Elle

The edublog awards

The edublog awards for 2007 are now up for voting. In the Best library/librarians blog category we have WAs own Katherine Greenhill's blog Librarians Matter as one ofthe nominations.

Check it out at this site and lodge your vote http://edublogawards.com/2007/best-library-librarian-blog-2007/

Elle

23 things mark 2 draws to a close

Congratulations to all those who have completed the second round of the 23 things learning 2.0 program. It has been a very stimulating time reading your blogs and learning about the different ways we might use these web2.0 technologies.

I look forward to seeing how we might develop ECU Library in library 2.0

ALIA Top End Symposium papers now available

Hi All

The Symposium papers are now available from the ALIA website http://alia.org.au/groups/topend/programme.html

Some of the notable papers inlcude:

e-volving libraries: our clients' needs, our skill needs and shaping the next workforceRoxanne Missingham ALIA President[audio recording]

Where to now? Positioning a school Library in the 21st CenturyKay Pisel, Kormilda College[paper]

What is Library 2.0 and do we need it?Sue Chilman, Manager City Library, Darwin City Council Libraries[paper]

Evolving and Changing with Workplace E-Learning: 23 ways your staff can grow.Julia Gross and Lyn Leslie, Edith Cowan University[paper]

e-volving profession: key findings from the nexus census of library and information professionalsDr Gillian Hallam, Associate Professor School of Information Systems QUT[paper]

Information Literacy - Online TutorialsLiz Short, Taminmin Community LibraryRuth Sheridan, Palmerston High School[paper]

Broadcasting Library Information - a Podcast Project at CDU Library Jessie Mahjouri and Marg Purnell, Charles Darwin University. [paper] [audio recording]

Evolving Librarian Symposium

Well here I am again, with my 15 minutes a day gone out of the window. since my last report, Julia and I have presented a paper at the Evolving Librarian conference in Darwin. The accomodation was first rate, as can be seen from the photos of the pool. We spent the late afternoon sipping mango drinks overlooking the water, which was a nice way to wind down after the hard work networking all day.

The symposium covered a range of topics dealing with changes in the library work place. Our symposium paper, Evolving and Changing with Workplace ELearning: 23 ways your staff can grow, was well received. We were pleased that there were a number of questions. The two keynote speakers papers provided useful background to the current work environment.

Roxanne Missingham, current President of ALIA and Parliamentary Librarian spoke about work trends and the need to change the way we employ staff to ensure that we retain professional expertise in the workplace.Gillian Hallam spoke of her research on library staff in the workplace and provided some interesting statistics on levels and age of staff ect.

A paper from staff at Charles Darwin University on podcasts is worth noting, particularly the introduction where they recorded a definition of a podcast to begin the talk. Some other notable topics covered teaching referencing to primary school children and teacching Web 2.0 technologies in the school environment.The papers should be going on the ALIA website soon.

For photos from the conference, checkTop End Tales; a Photo Blog of Stephen Michael Barnett, now working in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Its a grab bag of things, personal interests ect illustrated with my digitial photos. Friday, October 05, 2007: 5th ALIA Top end Symposium - e-vovlingeducation

http://topend.blogspot.com/2007/10/5th-alia-top-end-symposium-e-volving.htm

Scholarpedia

Hi All
You maybe interested in checking out this new encyclopedia, which is a similar concept to Wikipedia and covers science related topics. It is very much in its infancy and needs to be further populated, so a chance for some experts in the field to become involved. It is called Scholarpedia:

http://scholarpedia.org/
From the introduction-
Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.
Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program - MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link.
However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:
Each article is written by an expert (invited or elected by the public).
Each article is anonymously peer reviewed to ensure accurate and reliable information.
Each article has a curator - typically its author -- who is responsible for its content.
Any modification of the article needs to be approved by the curator before it appears in the final, approved version
ELLE

Learning more about HTML

Hi
Some of the group have expressed a desire to learn more about HTML. I have found this useful information in the Blogger help screens which may assist, see:

How can I learn some basic HTML?
There are lots of easy HTML tags that you can add to your text to change its appearance. This page lists some of the most common tags. If you want to learn more, please see: How can I learn more about HTML? http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42069&topic=8920

I hope that you find this a useful guide
ELLE