Last Wednesday I was fortunate to be able to attend a seminar on E-Repositories presented by the ALIA Information Science SA and the Joint University Library Staff Development Group, which is a collaboration between the three Universities here in Adelaide. The speakers were: Katie Blake, from the ARROW Project Jenny Quilliam, from the University of [...]

An Australian Information Architecture conference and retreat, featuring an array of well-known speakers, including the NLA’s own Alexander Johannesen will be held this weekend in Sydney: OZ-IA 06. We want to continue building and sharing the practice of information architecture in Australia and this is our forum to come together and discuss and learn. Who [...]

I’m motivated to post by an article in this month’s Incite, the ALIA news magazine (I can’t link to the article, though, because it’s not included on the net).  The title was “What do an Apple store and a library have in common?”  Interesting that the Future of Public Libraries conference should have the architect [...]

Click 06 has been a very strange time for me. The conference dinner was the strangest of times. Dr Click had decreed we must not sit with our work mates. I moved to the front of the ballroom and spied a table with vacant seats. It was quite a shock for both myself and my [...]

Welcome if you’re visiting this blog for the first time after hearing all about it at our recent ALIA Biennial! Feel free to explore what we have here and leave a comment or two if you have anything to say – or just let us know you were here! I’m feeling energised (and tired at [...]

New on the ALIA pages, a survey to discover more about the Australian LIS workforce. It may take 30 minutes of your time to complete, but this will be valuable information for the profession. The project is led by Gillian Hallam. There is considerable anecdotal evidence about the challenges facing the profession, about people leaving [...]

My posts here have been a little scant of late, mainly because I have been preparing for the conference. Now that it’s started, I can hardly believe it. I’m hoping to blog my experiences as much as I can, but I think it’s a rather fine line between spending all my time on a computer [...]

The day began with Martha Yee, who began her cataloguing life under a scientific cataloguer and now is the Cataloguing Supervisor, UCLA Film & Television Archive. Martha lectures at some stage every year to students of film preservation and tries to instil in them the importance of cataloguing moving images. She believes passionately in ‘full [...]

http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/ Fri 1st – Sat 2nd Dec 2006 The John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW [Sydney]   Announcing the International Keynote Speaker:  Joan Frye Williams http://www.jfwilliams.com/   [Proudly sponsored by the National Library of Australia] The NLS2006 committee is pleased to announce our International Keynote Speaker, Joan Frye Williams,internationally recognised library futurist and designer of innovative library [...]

Open access repositories of library and information science research are good (free) sources to monitor to keep up with professional reading. Alia eprints and dlist are examples of  subject-based repositories in the library and information science area. Repositories are a fairly hot topic in the academic sector at present as more Universities, usually with the [...]