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 [...]

It’s time to start planning events for National Simultaneous Storytime. Here is the update from ALIA….
Libraries, school classrooms, bookstores, childcare centres, coffee shops, mums and dads clubs and children’s hospitals are all invited to register for NSS !
The Australian Library and Information Assocation is delighted to announce that the 2007 NSS book is:
The Magic [...]

Ever thought about working overseas, or are you interested in working in Australia someday? Many Australian librarians head overseas for work every year. Recognition of qualifications can often be an unexpected stumbling block. Although ALA, CILIP and ALIA recognise some of each other’s qualifications, not all Australian library qualifications are covered. This can be an unwelcome surprise.
Recognising [...]

Derek Whitehead is currently Director, Information Resources and University Copyright Officer at Swinburne University of Technology. He is Vice President Elect of ALIA and was conferred with a Fellowship of ALIA in 1995.
That’s not what impressed me when I was digging around for an introduction for this LINTerview . I’m impressed that he’s obviously [...]

Today is a May Day with a difference: The Society of American Archivists’ initiative to bring awareness to preserving cultural heritage, MayDay, has come to Australia. Australian groups involved in this initiative are:
Australian National Committee of the Blue Shield
Australian Library and Information Association (representing IFLA)
Australian International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Council of Australasian Archives [...]

Like Kate Watson , Damian Lodge is newly elected to the ALIA board and shares a bit about himself in this LINTerview where he answers five questions he chose from our list.
I live in Wagga in NSW, I am married to Justine who is also a librarian, we have two children aged 8 and [...]

Kate Watson, newly elected to the board of ALIA is a young Queensland librarian active in the New Librarians’ group and interested in how blogs and wikis can be applied in libraries. She currently works as Rubric Co-ordinator at the University of Sunshine Coast.
We gave her our list of LINTerview questions and asked her to [...]

March 2007 was quite a busy month in Australian library blogland. Various RL library events have blogged about, such as the L2 Unconference in Melbourne. Jessamyn West’s visit to Australia had quite an impact in the Aussie blogosphere, and was blogged by CW, techxplorer, Kayo and Sputty. Australian LIS bloggers have played a role in [...]

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 wiki or create your [...]