Today is the first day of Information Awareness Month. The ‘month’ is a collaborative event supported by Australian Library & Information Association, Records Management Association Australia, the Institute of Information Management, the Australian Society of Archivists, the Health Information Management Association of Australia, the Public Record Office Victoria, and the National Archives of Australia. Its purpose is to increase public awareness of the breadth of the information industry.

The theme this year is Safety, Security, Privacy.

The IAM website lists a series of events across Australia and New Zealand.

Considering that the purpose of IAM is to increase public awareness of the information industry it seems that there are quite a few events which are aimed at professionals already in the industry, rather than the public.

However,  there is at least one with a public audience including one in New Zealand on preservation of personal and family records -Preserving your records in a changing world.

There might be others, but some don’t have a lot of information available. If you are attending any of these events, how about writing a post for Libraries Interact about it? Or at least leave a comment here.