A few weeks back I attended the Gold Coast regional meeting for ALIA’s National Advisory Congress. The actual congress is next week in Alice Springs, but the minutes from the regional meetings are now available on the ALIA website. The focus is professional development. Skimming through the minutes of these regional meetings it’s clear that [...]

We had a great night out at Bhoj for the first annual Australian Library Bloggers’ Dinner. In the scenic and relaxing environment of Docklands, on a balmy Melbourne summer’s night, Libraries Interact bloggers (past and present) Kathryn, Peta, CW, snail, Morgan and Michelle were joined by friends Mike, Genevieve and Tania for beautiful food, great [...]

Last Wednesday I was fortunate to be able to attend a seminar on E-Repositories presented by the ALIA Information Science SA and the Joint University Library Staff Development Group, which is a collaboration between the three Universities here in Adelaide. The speakers were: Katie Blake, from the ARROW Project Jenny Quilliam, from the University of [...]

ALIA is just getting underway with regional meetings for their National Advisory Congress with meetings across the country. The first was in Alice Springs last week, with Brisbane tomorrow, and the rest are planning to meet during August. I recall going to the Sydney one last year at which a dozen or so folk attended [...]