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 [...]

Thursday, October 11, 2007

9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Library2.0 UnconferenceLibrary2.0 - using Web 2.0 social networking tools (blogs, wikis, feeds, podcasts, virtual reality, instant messaging, LibraryThing, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life etc) in Libraries….

State Library of Queensland

Stanley Place
South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland

 
On the day before the unconference, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation ICT Working Party is [...]

Friday, September 28, 2007

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Australian Blogging Conference"This will be an unusual conference. We generally won’t have speakers, panels or an audience. We will have discussions and sessions, and each session will have a discussion leader. " — website…

Queensland University of Technology Brisbane

The conference program for VALA 2008 is now available on the web. My fellow LINTers may be too modest to blow their own trumpets, but a number of them will be presenting at the conference.
Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA Do we remove all the walls?: Second Life librarianship
Constance Wiebrands, Curtin University, WA, snail, aka Sean [...]

The Oral History Association of Australia is holding its biennial conference in Brisbane in late September (27-30th). Old stories, new ways  is the theme with presentations on interpreting story, working with community, understanding memory, oral history and independent practitioners and addressing changing technologies. There is an optional excursion to North Stradbroke Island to visit the Historical [...]

On behalf of the Organising Committee, we wish to announce that Registration for the ALIA National Library and Information Association Technicians Conference 2007 is now open.
The Conference will address key issues affecting the library and information professions in this rapidly changing digital age and offer a stimulating program featuring leaders in their fields of expertise [...]

Are you interested in library research, history and analysis? The annual RAILS (Research Applications in Information and Library Studies) conference will be held at RMIT in Melbourne this year on November 30. The call for papers closes May 31:
“If you are carrying out research into any aspect of the provision of library, information and knowledge [...]

Sharon Karasmanis wrote to me a couple of weeks ago with an update on the Libs for Africa fundraiser and I’ve only now got around to writing an update.  A recent check of the website shows that the goals of the campaign have been exceeded. With $8000 raised there is enough to send 12 librarians to [...]

There are only 7 months remaining until the exciting and innovative ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Conference 2007, to be held at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne. The dates for this event are Tuesday 9 - Friday 12 October 2007, so mark them in your diary and start making your travel plans!
The call for [...]

Sharon Karasmanis from La Trobe University Library reports that the collection at Information Online conference raised an additional $1055 dollars for the Libs for Africa campaign.
She also mentions that Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education in remote Northern Territory is the first place to take up the challenge and conduct a fund raiser for Libs for [...]