Here are three snippets that caught my eye today:

1. Perth Library Camp

The fourth annual Western Australian Library unconference is imminent and if you love libraries, lively discussion, questions, thinking, playing and connecting, it is the best event for to this each year.

Registrations opened today for the event on Monday 25 October at new and fabulous Grove Library. To be a participant – there are *NO* spectators – haul your browser off to the registration page ASAP. There are just 100 places and they fill fast. What do you want to know about or share with equally engaged information professionals? Think of something and add it to the Sessions page, or volunteer for the all important jobs on the day .

To find out more about library unconferences, see the front page of the Library Camp Perth page , or check out my accounts of previous years:

• Library 2.0 on the Loose unconference(2007)
• Library 2.0 and Beyond: Getting our hands dirty library unconference (2008)
• Community dreaming at Library Camp Perth 2009

2. Embedding a chapter of a Kindle Book in a website

Yep – Kindle for the web now allows you to embed the first chapter of a Kindle book into any website. Like this one below.

Very interestingly, I could copy the embed code from the sample (Karen McQuestion’s Easily Amused ) on Amazon’s page about  Kindle for the web , but when I looked at the page for this book  in the Australian Kindle store, there was no “Read First Chapter Free” button. In fact, I could not find a single Kindle book available for purchase in Australia that had this fuctionality. I hope to be wrong about this, so if you have found one, please let me know.

What does this do for our idea of the “location” of content ? If you mix and match two or three first chapters on a webpage like a collage from Tristan Tzara , then are your creating a whole new work by juxtaposing. (No, of course not, but are we opening the way for “pick n mix” pages of embedded content from a number of sources …ooooh…like an online university course reader …. ). As I keep pointing out, our limits with this kind of creation are commercial (copyright, regional, authorship, paywalls), not technical .

3. What every information service should have

My former co-worker, and extremely clever lady, Carolyn McDonald listed today on her whiteboard what her new job entails as Manager , Technology Innovation, Information Services  at Bond University . Not every information service can afford to have a single person dedicated to doing these things, but I think every information service should have a plan for someone to be doing this, and to encourage and develop staff who see these things as important – as not all staff do.