Johann van Wyk, Library Manager of the Education Library of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, has been employed by the University of Pretoria since 1989. He is interested in knowledge management, Communities of Practice, Library 2.0/Web.2.0 and E-research. He is blogging at www.edulibpretoria.wordpress.com. He is introducing the biblioblogosphere in South Africa to us in this LibWorld edition.
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Mitja Iskrić is blogging since 2004. While studying LIS he started a new blog focusing on student life. After graduation he’s currently not working in a library related environment, but he wants to stay connected with other Slovene librarians and Slovene library development in general. He invited some of his colleagues from the faculty to participate in the project and so they created the Biblioblog in April 2007.
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We continue our LibWorld series with a a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea: Croatia. As guest authors we welcome Sofija Konjević and Bojan Macan.

Sofija Konjević, MSc Information Science, senior librarian, is employed at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb since 1997. She currently works on interlibrary loan and maintains some library web pages. She is interested in electronic journals, worked on electronic journals project and conducted user survey on subject.

Bojan Macan works as a librarian at the Ruđer Boškovic’ Institute Library since 2005. In general he is interested in new technologies in libraries and bibliometrics analysis. At the moment he is working on implementation of open source library management system Koha in the RBI Library and is also involved in Institutional repository project. Bojan is PhD student of Information sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb.
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Organizing LibWorld was not always easy, but mostly fun. So we decided to get the LibWorld train back on the track. We’ll start with Croatia on Monday. The future seems to bring articles from at least three continents.

You are missing a country in our LibWorld series? You know a biblioblogger in exactly that country? Wonderful! Just post the blog URL in a comment and we’ll try to contact her or him.

We’d love to make LibWorld as complete as possible!

Good things come to those who wait. It took a long time but finally it is done:
Our LibWorld book is finally released. It’s available in print at Lulu.com, or you can download it at some repositories:

• SerWisS – Server für Wissenschaftliche Schriften der Fachhochschule Hannover
• Düsseldorfer Dokumenten- und Publikationsservice
• Directly here from Infobib (PDF, slightly revised edition)

You can find and browse almost all the links that are mentioned in the book in our bookmark collection at delicious.com. Some missing bookmarks will be added in near future.

A special thanks goes to the LibWorld authors, our cover artwork designer Jaume Josep Llambrich Brull and to Walt Crawford for the foreword.

Certainly there are some minor flaws in this book; this can never be avoided. But we look forward to your feedback! And if you want to correct something: No problem, it’s published with a CC-BY-SA license. So you are free to build derivates or mashups of this book. We’d love to hear “LibWorld – the musical”, for example.

Our trip through the library blogosphere does not end at this point. So if readers from all over the world would like to enrich our collection, please contact us!

Wow! With a total of 117 votes we can really say that the cover if the LibWorld book is not only user generated, it is user chosen, too! You can see all contributions here. Big, big thanks to all participants! You can’t imagine how much fun it is to get all those reactions from all over the world! Thumbs up, librarians all over the world!

This is how you voted…
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UPDATE: The poll is closed, new votes will no longer be counted. You can see the results here.

UPDATE: The poll is closed, new votes will no longer be counted. You can see the results here.

Thanks for your artworks! We are really glad that we do not have to decide which is the best one. No, this is your decision! We want to introduce the contributions to you. So please take a look at the artworks, choose your favourite one and vote for the LibWorld book cover!

The contributions to the LibWorld Cover Contest

Number One

Gloria Garnora from Chile sent this composition in red, yellow and white to us. She used GIMP to make this cover. And here it is:

Number Two

Laura Regnault sent this fine piece of cover art. She wants to express the “colorful flow of information in library blog world”.

Number Three

The next contribution came from Germany. The author calls himself Bücherninja (German for books ninja). He is convinced that the library world needs more ninja spirit:

Number Four

The next cover was designed by Edlef Stabenau, founder of Germany’s oldest and most popular biblioblog Netbib. He chose to use Wordle to produce his picture.

Number Five

This and the following two covers were made by David Comuñas Serrano using Inkscape. For the second one he chose to use a QR code

Number Six

Number Seven

Number Eight

Jaume Josep Llambrich Brull from Spain sent us two covers to choose from.

Number Nine

Number Ten

Last but not least: Laurent Meese from Belgium with his version of the LibWorld book cover.

In der letzten Ausgabe des Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly geht es (auf englisch) um soziale Netze und rund um die Bibliothek 2.0. Ein Artikel (“Interaction: Anything goes 2.0″, S. 6-9) ist von LibWorld-Autor Peter Alsbjer.

Das gesamte Magazin (PDF) kann man hier herunterladen.

[via Peter Alsbjer]

After receiving overwhelming positive resonance from our readers and our LibWorld authors we would like to publish a book with updated LibWorld articles. And now we are searching for the ultimate LibWorld book cover!

When you are inspired by the idea of connecting global librarianship and maybe you are a bit talented in graphics: Make a book cover and send it to us. Deadline is 6th of July. We will make a public vote for the winner. And the winner wins the book cover. ;-)

Facts

1. The book (including the cover) will be published under a creative commons licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
2. Size: 15,24×22,86mm (6″ x 9″); Pixel: 1913 x 2925
3. The Cover can be sent to us .PSD file or as .GIF file. We would appreciate to get both.
4. The artwork should include:
   • The publisher’s name: Infobib
   • The book title: LibWorld – library blogging worldwide
5. You can get more information at Lulu.com (where the book will be published)
6. We welcome the use of Free/Libre Open Source Software. Please send a note if you use such software (for example GIMP or Scribus).
7. Please send your artwork to ch@infobib.de.
8. Deadline: 6th of July

If you have questions and comments, please use the comment funktion beyond.