This article in The Sydney Morning Herald this morning 28 May 2012 raises some interesting issues for schools with regards to students BYO electronic devices to school. The article can be accessed here.

All are welcome to hear author and UQ Alumnus Simon Cleary speak at a Friends of Fryer event about his most recent book Closer to Stone.

We have been receiving many requests from Teacher-Librarians about issues relating to e-books and e-lending and the implications this has for School Libraries.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has drafted a background paper on digital lending.

The paper attempts to:

From UQ News:

Check out the latest Animal/Human exhibition at the UQ Art Museum. The exhibition, running until Sunday, July 22, presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists that explores our complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Their work variously touches on the psychological, ethical, philosophical, scientific and cultural parameters of the relationship. For further details, click here.

To celebrate International Art Week, Oxford University Press would like to highlight a key secondary Art resource, Oxford Art Online.

We are moving the Cyberschool pages over to a new format in the next few weeks and are looking at the information that we currently provide to schools.

To that end we require some information from the members.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/

It can be very inspiring to see what other librarians are doing and how they are doing it!

The Unquiet Librarian - an inspirational school library blog.

List of Library Journal movers & shakers for 2011 for some more inspiration.

Salem Press 2011 Blog Award winners (for library blogs)

UQ Open Days for 2011:

St Lucia - Sunday August 7th 9am - 3pm

Gatton - Sunday 21st August 9:30am - 3pm

Ipswich - Wednesday 24th August 2:30pm - 6:30pm

See the program, make an itinerary and enter a competition at the UQ Open Day website.

Welcome to the new look UQL Cyberschool blog. This blog now uses Drupal which is an open source content management platform. It's free, very flexible and use to use. For more information about Drupal go to this website.