Applications from eligible NSW library staff for the 2011 Colin Mills Scholarship and the 2011 Kath Knowles Young Leaders Award have been extended until Friday 9 September 2011. Colin Mills Scholarship a biennial award to the value of $8,000 the Council and/or Library of intending applicants must be a current financial member of either Public [...]

The Information Online road train is gathering steam as we type – only a week and a half away. In addition to the official programme, there’s some additional social events: an ALIA Sydney gathering and two #ALIAioc tweetups. Here are the details for each: Date: Monday, 31st January 2011 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Cohibar Location: Cohibar, [...]

Meant to add this last week but there’s still a chance to score some funding for research. From the press release: The State Library of New South Wales is currently taking applications for the DS Mitchell Fellowship and the Merewether Fellowship. The Mitchell and Merewether fellowships are designed to promote the Library’s role as a [...]

This seems somewhat timely, given a recent report on the decline of pay equity.  As per the blurb: The fellowship is named in honour of the late Jean Fleming Arnot, MBE, FLAA, a former staff member of the State Library of New South Wales, who retired as head cataloguer in 1968 after a distinguished career [...]

Yet another post about VALA Kate Davis and her partner in crime, Carolyn McDonald, are working to complete their VALA paper (they have an extension…honest guv! but they need lots of folk to complete their survey. Full details can be found on Kate’s blog but briefly they are exploring the relationship between IT and libraries. [...]

[update: ALIA has just set up a wiki to explore possible alternatives for 2010] [update: official word (Prez) from ALIA, and from the Vice Prez] Interesting news to hand in recent hours. Alas IFLA has decided to cancel the Brisbane Conference in 2010. They cite a bunch of reasons, primarily centred around the “Global Financial [...]

Internationally recognised US Web 2.0 commentator, blogger and library academic, Dr Michael Stephens, has been appointed the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar. On behalf of CAVAL and its project partners: CityLibraries Townsville and Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dr Stephens’ research project will seek to measure the value and effect of Learning [...]

January has been busier than usual with stuff being released and conferences galore including Information Online, RAILS 5, and ALA Midwinter. NLS4 have announced in recent days that most papers are now available, and images have been flowing into their flickr group. Around the traps, the new issue of the Australian Library Journal has just [...]

It’s on again, applications to attend Aurora in 2009 opened on Monday, 15 Sept 2008. Most comments I’ve heard suggest this a great learning opportunity, and particularly beneficial for those with leadership aspirations. ALIA has maintained a list of testimonials.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released a snapshot yesterday, as part of Library & Information Week, detailing several facts about library usage in this country including: 46% of Australians aged over 18 years visited a library in 2006 72,600 Australians reported unpaid involvement in libraries and archives in April 2007 Libraries were the second most [...]