No winter in Australia

Mentally I am still stuck between Brisbane and Wagga Wagga. Queensland was steaming hot from January till late March  -- New South Wales is milder now, although it must sound irresistibly surreal that around noon, 28 C is the norm, and wild ducks are grazing around the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University. Not to speak of the flocks of shrieking white cockatoos, green lorikeets and the occasional kangaroos in the evening.

While on a sabbatical here, I am writing a book on a next generation of digital libraries. The question is not how they will, but how they shall be. So, what’s on my wish list? It’s a long one. But one thing is for sure, I would like to see them more enabling, becoming a cultural treasury by incorporating as much cultural heritage as they can – which is what memory institutions are for.

Photo by: Sándor Dáranyi

Text by: Professor Sándor Dáranyi.