Registration is now open for the upcoming ALIA symposium Beyond the Hype: Web 2.0. The symposium will be haeld at the Queensland University of Technology from February 1 - 2.

Full details are available at both the symposium web site http://www.alia.org.au/groups/quill/beyond.hype.html and the symposium social networking site http://beyondthehype.ning.com.

The Australian Library and Information Association and the city of Brisbane have been selected to host the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress in 2010.

The State Library of Queensland will be hosting the 2007 SLQ Library2.0 Unconference. Get together with other information professionals in a facilitated environment to informally learn, discuss and brainstorm anything and everything Library2.0.

For those in Melbourne in July, Libraries, Web 2.0 and other Internet stuff will be held at the State Library of Victoria on Monday 23rd July.

The American Library Journal have announced their 50 "Movers and Shakers" for 2007. This year's winners include some well recognised names - Casey Bisson, Helen Blowers, Nicole Engard and Michael Casey, just to list a few.

http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/
A student volunteer at Info Online 2007 provides a review

If you want to know what's on and when with regards to library and information science conferences, anywhere around the world, then check out: The International Cal

The Ramsay Reid Scholarships, awarded on an annual basis by the Library Board of Victoria, have been presented for 2006.

Anna Boland from Hume Global Learning Centre Library Service will be going to the western states of the USA to study public library literacy programs. I (Michelle) won the other scholarship (I'm from Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation). I will be going to the east coast of the USA to study innovative ways that select libraries are serving their communities through the internet and also to attend and present at the Computers in Libraries 2007 conference in Arlington, Virginia.

Thomastown Library will be the host of the first L2 Unconference in Australia. Based on the Boot Camps in the US, the unconference "focuses on who is going to be at the event and what they're interested in. No powerpoint presentations, no eminent (or not so eminent) papers, just conversations, active learning, discussion, fun! (they) provide the space, enough blank space to write on so that you can self organise, and a general theme for the day."

episode 31
"Ah, could we borrow you for a couple of minutes?" the Boss asks quietly, interrupting the PFY's riveting (if somewhat longwinded and one-sided) discussion of RS6000 boot flags.