Colleagues, I have been here at the Realising our Broadband Future forum for the past two days and many of you have seen the twittering at #bbfuture. Places at this conference have been by invitation only and I have been pleased and proud to represent our profession and ALIA here – amongst the government, technical [...]

The ALIA Public Libraries Summit opened today with a keynote from Senator the Hon Ursula Stephens, Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion and Parliamentary Secretary for the Voluntary Sector. The purpose of the Summit is to demonstrate the many ways public libraries play a central and valued role in strengthening communities, developing people and achieving social [...]

…and we want to hear from you! After the IFLA decision last week, it’s been wonderful to see so much enthusiasm,  ideas and creative suggestions for a 2010 event flying around the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook and the e-lists.  Thanks to LINT for a great post that kicked off some discussion here. As ALIA President Jan [...]

ALIA SA recently ran a Basic Wikis 101 workshop which was a great success! The workshop is part of the ALIA SA Basic 101 Workshop series which gives participants the chance to learn about Web 2.0 technologies in a hands-on environment. Check out photos of the workshop in action here… Attendees were introduced to the [...]

ALIA SA is presenting the following workshop as part of our Basic 101 workshop series (other topics planned for 2007 include Flickr, Podcasting, RSS & Second Life) A practical hands-on workshop which will show you: what a wiki is some possible uses for wikis look at Wikipedia in a new way post to our workshop [...]