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Tim was an engaging and entertaining speaker who ran the audience through the various features available on his ever-popular website LibraryThing. The power of harnessing user generated content using collaborative effort and aided by easy to use online tools was obvious to all. Tim spoke of the site in terms of climbing the social cataloguing [...]

Jessica spoke of her involvement with the programmes and efforts of the early 2000’s to roll out internet and information access to locations across the USA using public libraries. During her talk she spoke about the challenges of working with tribal cultures and technical connectivity. A number of success stories were aired and learning experiences [...]

Day three got off to a great start with an engaging talk by Penny Carnaby who spoke of ‘citizen created content powering the knowledge economy’. Penny laid out the challenge to librarians in attendance to ensure New Zealanders were not part of the ‘delete generation’ and to work proactively to preserve and enhance the digital [...]

A continuation of the buzz from yesterday pervades the mood of delegates in attendance at the second day of the Lianza 2009 conference. Today I have taken a slightly less ‘online intensive’ approach to my blogging, twittering etc. This was driven in part by my involvement as a speaker at one of the break-out sessions [...]

Richard gave an ‘us and them’ style of talk in which he spoke about the concepts of ‘free software’ and DRM. Examples included the use of root-kit software installed on Sony music discs and AACS DRM content control. E-book readers came in for a roasting. Stallman was not happy with the concept of purchasing content [...]

The audience warmly welcomed both Sir Tipene O’Regan and his daughter Hana O’Regan at this mornings first key note address as the 2009 LIANZA annual conference got underway. They engaged in some light hearted intergenerational banter pulling each other up in areas such as pronunciation and family politics. The thrust of their talk covered  the [...]

After arriving in Christchurch via a delayed Air New Zealand flight yesterday we sprinted to the Christchurch Convention Centre to pick up our registration packs. The venue is well laid out with breakout rooms and exhibitors located nearby each other. Wi-Fi access is available and I hope to be able to post to this blog [...]