A recent post to the NewGrads’ elist highlights a career overview of librarians, on Australian Jobsearch. Interesting to note is that average salary is around $1,000/week (which seems high based on most of the librarians I know). While job prospects are average, unemployment remains low. It’s a female dominated industry at 78% of the workforce; [...]

ALIA is just getting underway with regional meetings for their National Advisory Congress with meetings across the country. The first was in Alice Springs last week, with Brisbane tomorrow, and the rest are planning to meet during August. I recall going to the Sydney one last year at which a dozen or so folk attended [...]

Last week saw the official launch of the online edition of The Australian Dictionary of Biography. Seeded initially with “..over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.” All biographies have been taken from the print edition which is published by Melbourne University Publishing.