Heads up for an innovative professional development opportunity – the inaugural Intelligent Information Symposium, to be held in Sydney on 3rd and 4th May 2012. The 1.5 day program is designed “so delegates can interact with speakers and vendors who have backgrounds in social media, taxonomy, information and records management, research, knowledge management, mobility, information [...]

Applications from eligible NSW library staff for the 2011 Colin Mills Scholarship and the 2011 Kath Knowles Young Leaders Award have been extended until Friday 9 September 2011. Colin Mills Scholarship a biennial award to the value of $8,000 the Council and/or Library of intending applicants must be a current financial member of either Public [...]

The Information Online road train is gathering steam as we type – only a week and a half away. In addition to the official programme, there’s some additional social events: an ALIA Sydney gathering and two #ALIAioc tweetups. Here are the details for each: Date: Monday, 31st January 2011 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Cohibar Location: Cohibar, [...]

Meant to add this last week but there’s still a chance to score some funding for research. From the press release: The State Library of New South Wales is currently taking applications for the DS Mitchell Fellowship and the Merewether Fellowship. The Mitchell and Merewether fellowships are designed to promote the Library’s role as a [...]

A two-day workshop on the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is being held on the 4th and 5th of December at the University of Sydney. Themes for this workshop are: scholarly publishing in the electronic environment business models and service frameworks establishing and maintaining publications and services experience sharing and establishing an Australian PKP community, and technical [...]

It’s time to register to attend Information Online 2009, the leading conference and exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region for Librarians, Information/Knowledge managers and the online information industry. Get an early bird discount for Information Online 2009 by registering before November 7th! ALIA members get a further discount off the regular conference registration price Information Online [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald is today reporting that Leichhardt Public Library, located in Sydney’s Inner West, has cancelled a planned exhibition about Israel and Palestine – “Al-Nakba”, a pictorial exhibition about Palestine and Israel,  should have  opened at Leichhardt municipal library last Friday. But after the police visit on Thursday night, it was suddenly cancelled the next [...]

Thursday the 29th of November is a Day of Action to improve funding for New South Wales Public Libraries. According to an ALIA press release, “funding for these libraries has decreased from 23.6% of the total operating costs of public libraries in 1980 to 7.8% in 2004-05 with further reductions in years since then. The State [...]

As commented elsewhere, a librarian and aussie has won the Ig Nobel prize for Literature! Glenda Browne of NSW, won it: “for her study [pdf, 173k] of the word “the” — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.”

Library folk in NSW are getting their leathers together for a bike ride in October (18 to 21) from Engadine to Kiama. “A fun filled few days where librarians across the state get together to visit rural libraries to generate publicity and have some fun.” A chance to visit a bunch of libraries, hang out [...]