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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 meeting. The gathering was a case in...

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 Gallery, State Library and...

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 increasing central role in...

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 collection development in 2004 and it...

Suzana Sukovic   These two pictures have been recently posted on the LARK Facebook page. They reflect how I often feel about research. There are times when research is on top of my ‘to do list’, but it doesn’t get done -- and times when I give up even putting it on the list. There are times...

http://www.alia.org.au/ausfavlibrarian/ Gaby Haddow  Why do people choose to become information professionals? This question is important to educators and to the profession more widely. For educators, it relates to how we attract students and, for the profession, it is associated with...

Suzana Sukovic Earlier this week Sydney was a gathering place for participants in the 8th International Conference on Persuasive Technology. I saw their announcement on a mailing list and decided to send a last minute one day registration. Since the organisers were CSIRO and NICTA, I expected...

Janine Schmidt Rethinking reference and instruction with tablets. Edited by Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier and Heather Moorefield-Lang. Library Technology Reports, vol. 48 (8) Nov/Dec 2012  ALA (American Library Association) Techsource has consistently provided sound assessments of...