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By Mary Anne Kennan Little library bit.ly/1pI7x06 This article was first published in the special issue of Incite “Build it and they will come”. The intention was to examine how libraries and other information organisations promote and celebrate their services...

By Heather Todd Explanatory Practice for Learning 2:0 Based on a Cumulative Cumulative Analysis of the Value and Effort of ’23 Things’ Programs in Libraries (2013) by Michael Stephens.  Reference and User Serves Quarterly, Vol 53, No 2, p 129-39 Whether you are a...

By Katherine Howard Senf, K., Black, F.A. and Mann, D. (2010) Education and Training for Serving those with Print Disabilities: Exploring the International Scene Feliciter 56(3) pp. 102-4. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Woman_reading.jpg What...

Drs Annemaree Lloyd, Mary Anne Kennan, Kim M. Thompson, Asim Qayyum Journal of Documentation, Volume: 69 Issue: 1; 2013 By Annemaree Lloyd https://www.flickr.com/photos/publik15/3917574528/in/photostream/ The purpose of the research was to understand how refugees...

A history of Aboriginal Sydney won a Research and Investigation Award from the National Heritage Trust last week. It is a proud achievement for a multidisciplinary team, including a librarian. In Library and Information Week, the Chief...

By Suzana Sukovic   The LARK meetup was five days ago but we haven’t told you how it went yet. ‘Lovely, as always’, is a short answer, but here is a long one (to quote our good blog friend ALIA Sydney). It is the first week of the term and it’s just busy, busy,...

Call for applications for ALIA research awards is now open. This post is a reflection from a previous Award recipient. Suzana Sukovic   Photograph 'iTell reflection' by Hannah Berekoven A study trip to Europe was one of my highlights last year thanks to the ALIA...

By Gaby Haddow   The ALIAWest Committee organised an event at the State Library WA this week titled Librarians as researchers. It was advertised as: Learn how you can take that great idea or interesting project you are currently working on and share it with the...

Do you want to start a research project? Do you want to connect with other people with similar research interests? Yes? Come to the LARK Meetup!  You will have a chance to meet the LARK Committee and discuss research ideas with people with similar interests. Dr...

By Katherine Howard   http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/7941866470_00846a8127_o.jpg Some of you may have seen the media release and subsequent blog posts from Swets in December last year about Natural Language Processing and academic literature search. ...