Over on the Twittersphere we are discussing have a meeting of twitter library folk just prior to #ALIAAccess / @ALIAAccess. @flexnib rightly tweets: #aliaaccess will be one big tweet up However as the conference dinner is Dine-Around, the conference is multi-streamed and we come from all walks of LibraryLand, we may not all get a [...]
ALIA Access 2010 is taking place at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1 – 3 September 2010. The 2010 event will challenge the traditional format of ALIA conferences with a focus on making the conference more ‘accessible’ for delegates and vendors. More will be revealed as the planning progresses…… The 3-day multi-sector conference [...]
2012 is the National Year of Reading and will be celebrated year round with events, competitions and much more, organised and sponsored by diverse partners, including libraries, educators, writers, publishers, booksellers, professional associations, politicians and other associated organisations. ALIA is a sponsor and will be launching the National Year of Reading 2012 website – Love [...]
Libraries Interact writers and friends will be covering VALA 2010 using CoveritLive. Prior to the main event, is the OCLC mashathon. A few of us are attending and our tweets and comments can be viewed here, so you can follow along as we discover a variety of OCLC-provided APIs, including the WorldCat Search API, led [...]
Due to popular demand, we are doing it all over again! Some of the Libraries Interact team will be in Melbourne for the VALA 2010 conference and are getting together for dinner. We are keen to catch up with each other and with you, our fellow blog readers, bloggers and tweeters.. So it is with [...]
On top of the VALATech Boot Camp, VALA will also be holding the L-Plate Series, the details of which have just been announced. This year it will only be 1/2 day long, to be held on Monday afternoon, 8th February, before VALA commences. The program will comprise a series of 1/2 hour overviews, intended to [...]
Its on again, Library Day in the Life will begin on Monday 25th January. This will be round 4 of this project. To recap, the Library Day in the Life Project aims to document a day (or week) in the working life of a librarian. In previous rounds, this has taken the form of blog [...]
Just in case you have missed them, whilst you are busy preparing to attend VALA in Melbourne in just over a month, the call for papers for the other two big library conferences in Australia is open. ALIA’s 2010 biennial conference was going to be IFLA Brisbane, but with the global financial crisis seeing that [...]
Colleagues, I have been here at the Realising our Broadband Future forum for the past two days and many of you have seen the twittering at #bbfuture. Places at this conference have been by invitation only and I have been pleased and proud to represent our profession and ALIA here – amongst the government, technical [...]
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