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 [...]

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 [...]

Leap into Leadership in 2008!
What are you doing with your extra day in 2008, February 29? Would you like to spend it participating in an introductory leadership workshop, whilst being exposed to the knowledge and wisdom of many leaders in the library and information industry? A group of fellow Victorian Aurorians have put together [...]

Peter Carter is currently CEO of Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation, a regional public library service operating in the South-East of Melbourne. He has been working in public libraries for just on 30 years which he says is both scary and possibly a little sad. He has a particular interest and experience in automating library services and [...]

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 [...]

News arising - forwarded from the RMIT students mailing list (and also from the ALIA Vic list) I have received the following information about a Victorian public libraries initiative which I thought should be posted here, where all the 2.0 crowd tend to gather.
Dear colleagues
What’s the best part of a conference? Most people agree it’s [...]

Members only event – Explore the State Library of Victoria - behind the scenes!
ALIA Victoria invites members for a special tour of the State Library of Victoria.
In what promises to be a fabulous evening, you will get an introduction to the Library’s history, an outline of the slv21 initiatives and hear more about the [...]

Re-Member, is a biographical database containing summary biographical information about all Members of the Parliament of Victoria since 1851. It is based on information drawn from “A Biographical Register of the Victorian Legislature 1851-1900″ and “Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament 1900-84″. Records for members elected since 1984 have been created from the information [...]

Very interesting meeting on Wednesday about RFID. Susan Gately from Hobsons Bay Libraries spoke about the implementation of RFID at Altona Meadows, then Eoin Geaney from 3M gave some facts and figures about the different needs academic, special, public and school libraries have for RFID and a bit of technical discussion then finally Alan [...]

Due to popular demand, the ALIA NewGrads Group in Victoria is hosting a
panel event of speakers who have moved between different sectors in the
library industry. The four panellists are:
* Cheryl Walker, from Melbourne Grammar School - Wadhurst Library, after a
long time in public libraries Cheryl is now the Librarian at MGS Junior campus.
* Doreen Sullivan, [...]