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#ALIAAccess #TweetUp and other social events!

Posted July 16th 2010 @ 1:09 pm by naomidoessel

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 conference – online options

Posted May 28th 2010 @ 7:17 pm by Warren Cheetham

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 [...]

National Year of Reading 2012

Posted May 25th 2010 @ 8:44 am by Michelle McLean

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 [...]

VALA 2010 – Wednesday

Posted February 9th 2010 @ 3:19 pm by Peta Hopkins

Live coverage of VALA2010 continues here… VALA2010 – Wednesday

VALA2010 live coverage – Bootcamp OCLC mashathon

Posted February 6th 2010 @ 9:31 am by Peta Hopkins

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 [...]

Libraries Interact dinner pre-VALA

Posted January 27th 2010 @ 1:24 pm by Michelle McLean

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 [...]

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L-Plate Series at VALA

Posted January 18th 2010 @ 7:13 pm by Michelle McLean

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 [...]

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Library Day in the Life 2010

Posted January 10th 2010 @ 12:09 pm by Michelle McLean

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 [...]

Calls for papers – Access 2010 and Online 2011

Posted January 2nd 2010 @ 5:34 pm by Michelle McLean

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 [...]

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Libraries represented at ‘Realising our Broadband Future’

Posted December 11th 2009 @ 4:32 pm by KS

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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