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By Edward Kostraby https://pixabay.com/p-488886/?no_redirect Leading the pack and constant innovation, seem to be part of the routine of managing any business venture and equally applies to libraries. The myriad of influences is simply overwhelming: the need to transition between platforms to...

By Suzana Sukovic The disconnect between academics and professionals in the library and information sector has puzzled me for many years. Like many others, I am interested in both and, surely, they have a lot in common. In Australia, LIS is a relatively small field, struggling for many years for...

By Suzana Sukovic Poster session in The Cube #eblip8 amazing! pic.twitter.com/6KeEFPOUsc — EBLIP8 (@EBLIP8) July 7, 2015 The excellent EBLIP8 closed on Wednesday, but it opened many possibilities. One is strengthening an often tenuous link between academic and professional silos. And, once we...

Digital Humanities 2015, University of Western Sydney, 29 June-3 July 2015 Watching 2 corellas destroying the building during #dh2015 lunchtime session on research infrastructure #irony pic.twitter.com/umSHlA0jxm — Fiona Tweedie (@FCTweedie) July 2, 2015 By Suzana Sukovic It was a great day,...

8th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference  Suzana Sukovic A whole conference devoted to applied research  – it’s a nerd dream come true to a LARK. I am looking forward to EBLIP8 so much that I allowed it to rule my weekends – a bit of work for the...

Suzana Sukovic The LARK event - tour of the UTS library retrieval system and workshop How to get published?, followed by dinner at a Japanese restaurant - are tonight. Everyone involved in organising this event is looking forward to an evening of stimulating conversations and good fun. ...

&Tour of the UTS Library Retrieval System  When: Thursday, 25 June 2015 Where: University of Technology, Sydney For this outing, LARK has organised everything you need to be informed, intellectually stimulated and entertained. Sounds like a tourist brochure, but this is a pretty accurate...

By Diana Hodge With the focus on newly appointed ALIA leaders, I thought it might be interesting to highlight some research into leadership; I was interested in what skills leaders require and the question of whether leaders are born or can be trained. I found a very interesting series of articles...

http://pixabay.com/en/paper-flowers-arts-and-crafts-paper-655387/ By Suzana Sukovic   There is a direct line between this blog and a sunny Saturday morning many years ago in which I lie in a bed covered by crispy linen, in my favourite pyjamas, a little bell around my neck to mark Vrbica*,...