G'day!

I started this group so those LibraryThingers who were present at the Innovative Ideas forum at the NLA on April 16, 2007, and who were inspired by Abby's talk, could get together and gossip about ... well, anything. The connected web and all that.

I promise to actually upload more of my library (I did, after all, buy four books from the NLA bookshop with that lovely 15% discount voucher!) so we have a better chance of connecting!

Come along and chat!

- Fiona
(infoaddict).

I thought Abby and Susan were the stand-out speakers at the Forum. Courtney was impressive, but I see that her talk was largely a re-hash of a presentation she gave last year.

Kerry

Hi, many thanks for the invitation. I wasn't at the forum but I'll tag along (pun intended) if you don't mind ;)

Hi, thanks for the invitation Fiona. I was planning to go to the NLA forum, but something else I was signed up for was rescheduled to the same day - so that was the end of that.

I'm happy to join, but will own up to being an irregular visitor to librarything. I may go weeks in between visits and then spend quite a lot of time updating my collection and exploring.

Hey, I hadn't visited LT for a good few months until the NLA talk. And as I have awful dialup at home, I won't be updating my collection in any significant way untl the satellite dish comes through ... still ... I figure it's worth a try, setting this sort of thing up :)

This group was sparked by the NLA talk, bluetongue, but I'm hoping it'll move outside of that :) That's why I made it pretty general. After all, one has to be inherently a fairly innovative librarian to actually be on here. I reckon :)

Thanks for the invite - I don't tend to use Groups that much though.

I was at the forum, I went mainly because Abby was there, although her talk was almost all info I already knew, it was still interesting (and noticing on the big screen that I had the third most books tagged "australian author" :)

I agree that Abby's, Susan's and Courtney's talks were great, but I enjoyed pretty much all the talks and was so glad that I went.

"noticing on the big screen that I had the third most books tagged "australian author" :)"

Now there's a challenge we can't resist :)

I was there for some of the sessions that day - had other duties to attend to but saw Abbey speak. Got quite addicted to LT when I first found out about it in July or August of last year, and still tune in regularly. I am very attracted to the recommendations feature as a resource discovery apparatus - mostly for my own personal reading, and also from a professional point of view.

I was quite inspired by the forum last week (I admit to being a LT addict and pusher), and I'm hoping that the new library system we're getting this year will be able to talk to LT for Libraries! I've been unsatisfied with the level of indexing on library catalogues for some time now, though it might be a while before LT is really effective for an academic library.

Hiya, thanks for the invite, Fiona. I don't use these forums on LT very much but am happy to be a part of this anyway :)

I'm not a librarian but I am an Aussie, so if it's OK I'll just hang out with you guys. Might pick up some reading tips.

#7 I have 68 books tagged "australian fiction". How do I find the list?

>11 amandameale:. Search on the tag text.
eg: http://www.librarything.com/tag/australian+fiction

Congrats on being #1 for tagging as australian fiction :-)

I went to the NLA Forum and was truly inspired, particularly by Abby. Anyone who reads Harry Potter in French to keep up their second language fills me with awe. I will have to get cracking on getting my books into LibraryThing so I can take up the Australian fiction challenge. The first book in my library is "All That Swagger" by Miles Franklin, but I don't know if I can beat 68!

I'm afraid I went through and re-tagged my Australian books with "Australian author" following that talk - previously I'd put anything with any sort of Aust. content on as "Australian," but that really lacked specificity (as my cataloguing teacher used to say). :-P I found 52.

Half my Australian authors are non-fiction, esp. cookbooks. Maybe we need to expand the challenge :)

I have 97 tagged as "Australian poetry" haven't been so diligent labelling fiction.

Liza

Hi, Just joined up- thanks Fiona- great idea. I was at that forum too- saw a lot of stuff that would love to adopt in my library if i can sucessfully navigate the bureaucracy! I haven't added any of my own books to librarything although it will give me a break from obsessive flickr tagging/loading/note adding- or ebay shopping...

I suppose I should add that I was also encouraged by the Innovative Ideas Forum, although I had already heard about LibraryThing at another presentation at NLA...one of the advantages of working there I suppose

as people would be able to see, my book list currently is very, very specialised, I haven't got to putting everything in there yet (hell, I haven't even got through all my vampire books yet :P), but am thinking that it might be a good idea for insurance purposes...I will definitely need to upgrade my membership if I'm going to get everything in though...

Anyone feel free to contact me, I'm sure I probably met some of you at the Forum...no guarantees of a response time frame, I can be rather haphazard...might start cataloguing stuff again as I'm packing it all up over the next few weeks...

I'd probably catalogue more into here if I had a barcode scanner. Have been covetously reading the Raeco catalogue with an eye to getting one of their USB scanners for my own use ... anyone got any advice or suggestions?

You could buy a CueCat from LibraryThing. They are cheap and they do send them to Australia. http://www.librarything.com/cuecat I have one. It's much more affordable than Raeco.

Liza

Yet another Web2.0 place for Australian librarians to talk to each other! I'm having troubles keeping up...

Greetings from sunny, but cold, Perth.

Owing to job changes I got behind ...

1. CueCats - I could have sworn that when I last checked that page, it said CueCats shipped to the US only. So excellent news that I _can_ buy one!!

2. Perth, cold?? Hah. We've been driving through snow and slush. And ok, my dams are overflowing, which is brilliant news for the drought-stricken. :)

3. Sorry 'bout having too many places to catch up on! It's only a lack of broadband and compatible computers that I'm not in 2nd Life ... :)

- fiona.

Second Life is terrible, terrible!

If you're going to immerse yourself in a 3D virtual environment, you might as well do it flying an Internet spaceship.

Second Life is just _addictive_ :)

Where does I gets me one o'dem Internets spaceships??? :)

Abby, may her barcodes grow ever larger, heard my plaint and sent me a CueCat all of my very own!!! I honestly didn't realise they shipped o/s - last time I looked, it was still "US-only". So I'm feeling honoured and a little guilty.

I'm also in love with the little thing. It works an absolute DREAM. I combined it with an NLA catalogue lookup and threw in an armful of random, highly Australian books on chook keeping, permaculture, and other oddities. I only had one that wouldn't scan and it's a pretty battered book. Even over my nasty dialup connection, scanning in was astonishingly quick and easy and effective; one scan and everything's up. Joy.

MANAGING one's catalogue over dialup is a whole 'nother headache entirely but that's understandable :)

SO THANK YOU ABBY!! O greatest of the web'brarians (etc and so on; everyone gets the message now :) ).

- infoaddict and rapidly becoming LibraryThingAddict ... :)

At long, long last, I've just paid actual money to become a life member of LT. Even better, I have ordered a cuecat. I expect my current low 100 odd tally to jump dramatically within hours of the cat's arrival.

A library-student-on-long-break is surprised and excited to see the words "Second Life". I happen to know someone famous there - Tateru Nino. Any acquaintances? ^__^