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Wanted! leaders in the library

Here’s an opportunity for would-be leaders to get some invaluable advice, confront your inner-most fears and ambitions about leadership and do some critical thinking and collaboration on the future of librarianship. In the beautiful Thredbo village you will join up with about 30 other participants and several respected leaders in the profession who give up their time to provide mentoring. One of the great things about Aurora is that you will make contacts from all over Australia and New Zealand.
This is not just a few days out-of-the-office jaunt - be prepared for some challenges - I know.

Applications are now open for the 10th Aurora Library Leadership Institute, to be held in Thredbo, NSW from 15 to 20 February 2007.

The Institute’s mission is to assist future leaders in the library and associated cultural and information industry to maximise their leadership skills and potential. It aims to position leaders to be proactive and effective voices in a dynamic and sophisticated information environment.

Details at: http://www.alia.org.au/aurora/aurora.html

ALIA provides an Aurora Scholarship to enable an ALIA member to attend the Institute where this would otherwise be difficult due to the financial commitment required. Personal financial members of ALIA who meet certain criteria are eligible to be considered for the Scholarship. Further information at:
http://www.alia.org.au/awards/aurora.scholarship/

July 20th, 2006 Posted by Peta Hopkins | Events, Training, All sectors | 18 comments

What is RUBRIC?

I’ve been asked by Librarian Kathryn, also known as sirexkat to tell you a little bit about the RUBRIC project. RUBRIC is an acronym that means, Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively. It is a project hosted at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) and we are working with a number of regional Universities in developing sustainable infrastructure for the deployment of best practice institutional repositories.

The key thing here is working collaboratively. We call our office here at USQ, RUBRIC-Central and there is only 7 people here in the office. The other people involved in the project, such as our project partners, are spread across 8 different Universities. We need to work collaboratively in order to achieve our goals. We use a wide variety of technologies to keep the collaboration working including blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, del.icio.us feeds and the more traditional email and telephone / teleconference.

In future posts I hope to talk more about RUBRIC, the things we’re doing, and the way we’re collaborating and working together.

July 20th, 2006 Posted by techxplorer | Australia, Queensland, Academic libraries, Special projects | 2 comments