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 [...]

WIN AN IPOD NANO & A YEAR’S MEMBERSHIP TO ALIA.
How?
Simple. Design a postcard promoting careers in libraries. That sounds easy. What sort of postcard?
We need a card that’s a bit like an avant card - those free advertising postcards you see everywhere. They have pictures and information on both the back and front, sized about [...]

28th March 2008 is the deadline for papers to be submitted for the 2009 ALIA Information Online conference. Next year’s conference will be held on the 20-22 of January at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The organisers are looking for practical and researched papers as well as case studies on topics such as digital rights [...]

Merry Christmas everyone!As the year draws to a close, there are just under 12 months left till the exciting and innovative ALIA New Librarians Symposium, to be held at CQ Functions, Melbourne. The dates for this event are Friday December 5 to Saturday December 6, so mark them in your diary. It will [...]

Leap into Leadership in 2008!
What are you doing with your extra day in 2008, February 29? Would you like to spend it participating in an introductory leadership workshop, whilst being exposed to the knowledge and wisdom of many leaders in the library and information industry? A group of fellow Victorian Aurorians have put together [...]

Western Australia’s ALIAWest has joined the blogosphere with Biblia. Billed as “A virtual conversation for librarians in Western Australia”, it hopes to make Biblia (a newsletter , once upon a time - see the newsletter’s archives) “more accessible to today’s generation of library workers”.
I look forward to hearing more about ALIAWest events and WA library [...]

Thursday the 29th of November is a Day of Action to improve funding for New South Wales Public Libraries. According to an ALIA press release, “funding for these libraries has decreased from 23.6% of the total operating costs of public libraries in 1980 to 7.8% in 2004-05 with further reductions in years since then. The State [...]

Dreaming08 will be the first major ALIA conference to be held in a remote area of Australia. Alice Springs is the place, and you can see that famous Alice Springs resident, Fiona O’Loughlin encouraging us all to attend in a video on the ALIA conference pages.
ALIA members will have the reminder in their inboxes, that abstract submissions [...]