Sue Hutley reports on the ALIA Board Blog that a number of submissions for the ALIA Education and Workforce Summit are now available for reading. The summit is invitation only, and will be held on Friday the 28th March. Late submissions can still be made via email, and those in Victoria may be able to [...]

The Call for Abstracts has just gone out for the annual LIANZA conference in New Zealand, to be held in Auckland, 2-5 Nov, 2008. The conference theme this year is: Poropitia - Outside the Box.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts for papers due: 2 May 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2008
Confirmation of format of presentation: 14 July 2008
Completed papers [...]

Check the ALIA website for Library and Information Week 2008 news. The dates are 19th May to 25th May. Last year on Libraries Interact we asked for your visions of the library of the future. We’ll have to put our thinking caps on for this year to see if we can come up with some [...]

On Library Lovers’ Day I attended Open Access Collections at Customs House in Brisbane. This was an APSR event held in association with QULOC and the University of Queensland.
I found the presentations very stimulating, especially Peter Murray-Rust’s in which he talked about open data and highlighted some useful sites to investigate further. It [...]

It’s amazing how fast a 3 day conference can come and go. VALA 2008 is finished and we are looking forward to VALA 2010 in the new Melbourne Convention Centre, being built just across the river from the existing site.

But for the wrap-ups. Kathryn and Con did a great job presenting on [...]

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 conversation [...]

A few of the Libraries Interact team will be in Melbourne for the VALA 2008 conference from 5th to 7th February and are getting together for dinner. We are keen to catch up with each other and with fellow bloggers and Libraries Interact readers.
So it is with great pleasure that the team from Libraries [...]

…and the conference season is upon us once more. First cab off the rank is Beyond the Hype in Queensland (rego closes in a couple of days, draft programme announced) on Feb 1-2, very closely followed by VALA on Feb 5-7 in Victoria. Plus there’s a bunch of Calls for Abstracts (CFA) out at the [...]

28th March 2008 is the deadline for papers to be submitted for the 2009 ALIA Information Online conference. Next year’s conference will be held on the 20-22 of January at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The organisers are looking for practical and researched papers as well as case studies on topics such as digital rights [...]

Merry Christmas everyone!As the year draws to a close, there are just under 12 months left till the exciting and innovative ALIA New Librarians Symposium, to be held at CQ Functions, Melbourne. The dates for this event are Friday December 5 to Saturday December 6, so mark them in your diary. It will [...]