If you are going to ALIA Dreaming 08 - the annual ALIA conference, or are thinking about going, then the program will be of interest to you.  The conference is being held in Alice Springs from 2nd to 5th September.

Highlights of the program include keynotes from Martin Nakata, Anita Heiss, Loriene Roy, Inga Lunden, Stephen [...]

Oops, almost missed it Today marks the start of Library and Information Week 2008, running through to Sunday, 25th May. There’s a bunch of events planned including, but not restricted to:

National Simultaneous Storytime
National Library Technicians Day
Biggest Morning Tea @ your library

Please comment on what your library is doing this week.

The results are in!
Jan Richards - Manager Central West Libraries has been elected to Vice-President/President elect.
Michelle Brennand - Manager Library and Heritage Services City of Wanneroo and Helen Partridge - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology have been elected as Directors by ALIA members and Phillip Keane -  Head, [...]

Back in September 2006, Gillian Hallam asked us all to contribute data for the Nexus survey, to discover more about the Australian LIS workforce. Nexus 2 has arrived and the aim of this survey is to gather data from institutions on workforce planning, staff development policies and practices.
If you are not a library manager, check if [...]

Sue Hutley reports on the ALIA Board Blog that a number of submissions for the ALIA Education and Workforce Summit are now available for reading. The summit is invitation only, and will be held on Friday the 28th March. Late submissions can still be made via email, and those in Victoria may be able to [...]

The Australian Library Journal is editing a special issue on web 2.0 and the library and information science profession. The issue is being put together by a couple of folk responsible for the recent Beyond the Hype Symposium in Qld.
Guest Editors: Helen Partridge and Clare Thorpe
Contact: Helen Partridge Email: h.partridge at qut dot edu dot [...]

The ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime is on a bit earlier this year, Wednesday 21 May 2008. From their recent update:

National Simultaneous Storytime 2007
Wednesday, 21 May 2008 at 11:00am
We are thrilled to announce that the National Simultaneous Storytime book for 2008 is Arthur by Amanda Graham and illustrated by Donna Gynell!
The book is [...]

It’s election season for ALIA, with votes for directors and president-elect to the board of elections due by April 9. Time to update your address if you haven’t already! There’s a number of good candidates running this year, and in a change from the past there’s more opportunity for candidates to lay out their goals [...]

Check the ALIA website for Library and Information Week 2008 news. The dates are 19th May to 25th May. Last year on Libraries Interact we asked for your visions of the library of the future. We’ll have to put our thinking caps on for this year to see if we can come up with some [...]

…and the conference season is upon us once more. First cab off the rank is Beyond the Hype in Queensland (rego closes in a couple of days, draft programme announced) on Feb 1-2, very closely followed by VALA on Feb 5-7 in Victoria. Plus there’s a bunch of Calls for Abstracts (CFA) out at the [...]