Hi cardies, we’re doing a fundraiser, or ‘the Great newCardigan September Donation Drive’ to use its full name. We haven’t run a fundraiser in almost four years. We’ve drawn down our funds, reduced our costs, and relied on a small number of regular and ad-hoc donors – thank you, we appreciate you a lot! However, we need to keep newCardigan solvent,…

In our last episode in our GLAM after Twitter series, Hugh speaks with Eleanor Colla about email newsletters, Twitter, professional communication and identity, and the separation between “work” and “career”. Eleanor has worked in tertiary research libraries across Australia since 2016, but has recently left the GLAM sector to see what being a proje…

In the third in our GLAM after Twitter series, Hugh speaks with Mita Williams about blogging, the impact of social media on the blogosphere, and the future of GLAM blogging. Librarian of Things 43 Folders Aus GLAMR – blogs Power Law (Wikipedia) In the Library with the Lead Pipe Reclaim Hosting Jason Kottke MetaFilter Theme Music by Professor Kliq –…

In the second in our GLAM After Twitter series, Hugh speaks to Sae Ra Germaine, Deputy CEO of CAVAL, volunteering addict, and conference organiser. Sae Ra has run over twenty conferences both in the technology and GLAM communities, and the overlap between them. Sae Ra talks about the differences between community and corporate conferences, the work…

Hugh speaks with Alissa McCulloch about what it was like to develop a professional identity at the height of “Library Twitter”. What was it that made the experience so intoxicating, and so powerful? What did it do for the Australian library profession? And what dangers were already lurking there, unnoticed? Alissa is a metadata strategist with resp…

For a few years, Twitter was the place to be if you wanted to keep up with the latest professional developments in GLAM. But just like the saying about going bankrupt, Twitter got worse “slowly, and then suddenly”. In our upcoming series we will talk to four GLAM workers about what made GLAM Twitter so great, and the benefits and possible futures o…