Later start to the last day of the conference, which was just as well as the wonderful conference dinner at the Ooraminna Homestead was the night before. We had an awesome night of a BBQ dinner, star gazing, dancing, partying and more, at a great location about 40kms out of Alice.

The first plenary for [...]

Day 2 of the conference was awesome.

I started at a vendor breakfast, my first such event at a a conference. ALS held a lovely pancake breakfast with guest speaker Margie Seale from Random House. She gave us an interesting insight into the publishing world and into the issues they are facing at present. [...]

Presented by ALIA President Derek Whitehead
ALIA Fellowship was awarded to:
Christine MacKenzie: CEO of Yarra Plenty Regional Library
ALIA Fellowship was awarded to:
Roxanne Missingham: Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian
Presented by Mylee Joseph
Ena Noel Award was awarded to:
Marcus Zusak for Book thief
Marjorie Cotton Award was awarded to:
Melinda McNaughton - Team Leader of Childrens Services, Sutherland Shire Libraries
Bess Thomas Award was [...]

If you are going to ALIA Dreaming 08 - the annual ALIA conference, or are thinking about going, then the program will be of interest to you.  The conference is being held in Alice Springs from 2nd to 5th September.

Highlights of the program include keynotes from Martin Nakata, Anita Heiss, Loriene Roy, Inga Lunden, Stephen [...]