From 28 May – 2 June some alterations take place on the Ground Floor of the City Library.

This includes recarpeting, rearranging the layout of furniture and work on the entrance way and under the escalator.

The event will be documented on the libraries Flickr account.

I've just got back from the ALIA Information Online Conference in Sydney and really enjoyed it.

My own website blog has a few posts from the venue with some thoughts etc.

I will try to add more there and add to the Flickr group with the photos I took while over there.

• www.paulhayton.co.nz

This is a video of a keynote address Meredith Farkas gave to a conference at UC Berkeley. It is 70 minutes long but skip the first 13 or so minutes as it is just introductions. The link is at: Building Academic Library 2.0
In it she discusses a definition of library 2.0 and then gives some great tips for using web 2.0 in libraries. There are some really good ideas that are practical and doable.

Had fun on flickr today just moseying around, looking at photos, leaving a few comments, adding and checking contacts etc. looked up and it was lunchtime! my my my, where does the time go?

I went to the digital futures 2.0 summit and the national digital forum last week. Loved both of them, not entirely sure what this means for my library - I've still got to sort that out for my report. Quick thoughts...

Collaboration is the new black. No wait, sustainability is the new black.

Broadband is going to save us - if only we can keep the power on

Broadband is only an enabler, it'll be useless if we can't figure out what to do with it

I'll never be out of a

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