1 February 2000

In this aliaNEWS broadcast...

Extraordinary General Meeting of the Association

Leila Hoffman awarded OAM

ALIA Draft Constitution

Election of directors

Manager/Library Technician of the Year

Membership fees reminder

Digital Agenda Bill update

Watch this space!

Your e-mail address, and aliaNEWS

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Extraordinary General Meeting of the Association
The General Council has called an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Association to be held on Tuesday 22 February 2000 at 5.30pm in the ABC Theatrette, ABC Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney. The business of the meeting is to seek the agreement of the membership to the Association incorporating under Part 5B.1 of the Corporations Law whereby it registers a body corporate as an Australian company. Resolutions to be put to the meeting are those required by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Commonwealth Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet for the Association to proceed under Part 5B.1. In doing so, the Association would be only the second organisation to take this course of action and would not be required to go through voluntary liquidation.

Leila Hoffman awarded OAM
Congratulations to Leila Hoffman, well-known to school and children's librarians, who has been awarded the Medal in the General Division of the Order of Australia for 'service to community through campaign (sic) for equal pay, establishment of WA Young Readers Book Award and Perth Torah Education Centre Library'. Library colleagues describe her as inspirational in her abilities as an organiser, team member and a mentor.

ALIA Draft Constitution
The draft Constitution for ALIA as incorporated under Corporations Law is available at http://www.alia.org.au/governance/constitution/. This draft has been agreed to by General Council and will be presented at the Association's Extraordinary General Meeting of 22 February 2000.

Election of directors
The closing date for nominations for election to the Board of Directors has been revised to 10 March 2000 to accommodate changes in the incorporation process. Ballot papers will be distributed in the April issue of inCite and the ballot closes on 8 May 2000. Form and information available from http://archive.alia.org.au/governance/elections/2000/

Manager/Library Technician of the Year
Nominations for the Association's Library Technician of the Year Award and Manager of the Year Award close on 1 June 2000.

Recognition and encouragement of good management practices within Australian libraries and information services is the aim of the Manager of the Year Award. Personal members who, as managers, have demonstrated outstanding skills in planning, resource allocation, project management, communication, leadership, interpersonal relations and marketing, are eligible to be nominated for the Award.

The Australian Library Technician of the Year Award aims to promote the role and image of library technicians in library and information services both in the workforce and in the wider community. The Award is open to any personal member of the ALIA Library Technician Section who holds an ALIA-recognised library technician qualification.

Further information, including application forms, is available from http://www.alia.org.au/awards/

Membership fees reminder
As you will now be aware from your membership renewal forms, all current memberships [i.e. those who have paid up by 31 January 2000] will expire at 30 June 2000. If you have not yet paid your membership fees for the period 1 January 2000 to 30 June 2000, your membership has lapsed. http://www.alia.org.au/membership.benefits/.

Digital Agenda Bill update
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs tabled its Advisory Report on the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999 in Parliament on 6 December 1999. The Committee has recommended some significant changes to the Digital Agenda Bill including the recommendations to remove the definition of 'library' from the Bill and to limit the range of exceptions for print to digital copying. The government will now consider and respond to the Committee's recommendations. The Bill is expected to be debated in the Parliament in March or April 2000.

The Committee's report is available at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/digitalagenda/contents.htm

For more information about the report's recommendations see ALIA's copyright news page at http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/copyright/

Watch this space!
We are currently revamping the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) webpages on ALIAnet. The new pages will include lots of useful information on the new CPD scheme and the ALIA mentoring program, as well as frequently asked questions (FAQs) and links to CPD activities and training providers. The page is currently under construction, but do bookmark it and watch it evolve. http://www.alia.org.au/education/cpd/.

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Feedback
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