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Digital Humanities Australasia 2014: Expanding Horizons, the University of Western Australia, Perth, 18-21 March.  By Suzana Sukovic http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BabelBar.jpg A few days at the second biennial conference of the Australasian Association...

Hi LARKs,I have recently written a review for ALIA's InCite magazine about Natural Language Processing (NLP). I based it on two blog posts by Swets:S.M. Das (2013, December 3). Natural language processing (NLP) and academic literature search (Part 1) [blog post]....

The LARK Committee met yesterday to discuss our first event this year. It’s too early to tell you everything, but we can say this – if you wish to lift your research project off the ground, network and collaborate, you need to put this date in your diary: 1 May, 6-8...

Suzana Sukovic   LARK is very happy to announce that we are now part of ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association). Our group page is at http://alia.org.au/groups/alia-lark We now have the LARK Committee. The members will be introduced very soon. In...

By Suzana Sukovic The smell of the latest muffin recipe from my Mufficious group is emitting from my phone screen so deliciously - you can almost bite into that picture. I’ll certainly try the recipe tonight. But I better check the minutes of our last meeting! My...

Suzana Sukovic Yesterday LARK had its second meeting ever. The first meeting was a year ago when the group came into existence. Yesterday we met again to touch base and discuss where we are heading. LARK isn’t and shouldn’t be a closed club, said someone in the...

By Suzana Sukovic Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbycycle/ Thanks to Kristina Stoney for her generous permission to reproduce her and Nicolas Arney's beautiful photos.   In transition (Turkey) This week I learnt at some majestic places – NSW Art...

Edward Kostraby UNSW main library tower lahznimmo.com Getting the right fit between a library, and users is an ever evolving environment. Libraries, are no longer archetypal, but with constant refurbishment and build of new spaces and constructs, design, plays an ever...

Mary Anne Kennan This article first appeared in InCite, August 2013 The theme of this issue is collection development. In volunteering for this column (LIS: Investigations) I thought a lot has probably happened in this space since I last actively thought about...