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 [...]

It was announced last week, that the Northern Territory Library had received the Gates’ Foundation’s 2007 Access to Learning Award. They received US$1 million from the Foundation in recognition of their work with indigenous communities in the Territory:
“The majority of the Northern Territory’s indigenous population lives in extremely isolated areas with very limited services [...]