Hi. Some pictures of my trip — including a few of the local libraries — are online if you want to take a look. No real updates until I get back stateside this weekend.
hi – 03dec
Hi. Boy is it nice here. The talk I gave this morning is available online now: Progressive Librarianship & the New Librarians: the personal [and professional] is political. Hope you enjoy it; it got a pretty good reception here. Special thanks to the library who sponsored me, The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, and for all the librarians who helped me plan my trip and made me feel very very welcome.
hi – 30nov
Hi. I leave for two weeks in Australia tomorrow morning. I’m just polishing my talk on The New Librarians that I’ll be giving on Saturday morning, hopefully in a well-rested state. While I’m gone, do you think you could figure out how to get Google desktop to index your library catalog? Thanks.
copyright laws slop over international borders, what do other librarians think?
I’m not talking much about copyright in my talk, but I have been boning up on some of the Australian library community’s responses to the Australia – United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) which passed in May. One of the things that AUSFTA did was “reduce differences” between US and Australian copyright law which, as you can probably guess, means the Australians get to tighten up their laws and bring them more in line with restrictive US laws that favor business uses of intellectual property over community and library uses. To this end, the Australian Libraries’ Copyright Committee released this Statement of Principles [word doc] which says, among other things
RSS feed on the ALIA web site
How do you find out what political issues are coming up that affect libraries in Australia? Go to the ALIA web site, click “advocacy” subscribe to the RSS feed on this page. Just look at all the RSS feeds they have! The ALA web site search gets a lot of results for RSS, but it seems to be the name of a section of RUSA.