Well, the handover of LibrarianActivist is imminent. A group of really great people have offered to take it over. I will probably talk more about this in the coming week (or simply let them introduce themselves once the handover is done).
In the meantime, here are a couple of small stories that i couldn’t help mention:
Civicaccess.ca: (from dose) a new organization sees the day:
Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data (CivicAccess) is a group of citizens which believes all levels of government should make civic information and data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens. We believe this is necessary to allow citizens to fully participate in the democractic process of an “information society.”
Airplane parts library: Green libraries anyone? Check out this particularly interesting architectural plan, made from Boeing fuselages for a library competition in Mexico! (from boing boing… where else…)
BCLA conference presentations: Some presentations from the BCLA annual conference are up on ELIS.
- Libraries Sharing Technology for Sharing
- Creating a Digital Commons
- First Nations Knowledge Centres and Libraries
Access to Knowledge: A conference held at Yale last weekend. Here’s the conference wiki, and the session entitled “The role of libraries for A2K“.