20 January 2006

In this aliaNEWS broadcast:

Have you nominated yet?

Industrial relations - making history

LLOs: your local contacts

Become an ALIA local liaison officer

Bigger discounts for ALIA/CAVAL training

Professor Nick Moore workshops

The Metcalfe awarded to Clare Granville

NSW Mentoring Program 2006

Jean Arnot Fellowship - apply now!

Feedback

Have you nominated yet?
The nomination deadline of 3 February for ALIA vice-president and three director positions is looming. Full details of the nomination procedure were printed in the December issue of inCite and are now online, including nomination forms.
http://alia.org.au/governance/elections/2006/

Industrial relations - making history
The much-publicised Workplace Relations Amendment Act has now passed through both Houses of Parliament. It overturns more than a century of Australian industrial relations law and practice. Its central feature is use of constitutional corporations powers to bypass state regulation of most working conditions and industrial disputation. How much of the Act becomes law will be decided by the result of a High Court challenge to its constitutionality lodged by the states. ALIA will provide guidance to members on the new system when its final shape is clear. A preliminary analysis is now available.
http://alia.org.au/members-only/employment/workplace.html

LLOs: your local contacts
ALIA's new local liaison officer (LLO) for Queensland is Claudia Davies. Claudia is a part-time librarian with Legal Aid Queensland's Library Services. Queenslanders are encouraged to contact Claudia on ph 0407 964 967 [claudia.davies@alia.org.au]. Welcome aboard, Claudia! To the west, Kay Poustie has resigned as LLO for Western Australia. Kay was the first ALIA LLO: we will miss her greatly and have very much appreciated all of her work representing the Association. Kay will continue with her many other ALIA commitments including her co-ordinating role with Click06.
http://alia.org.au/contacts/

Become an ALIA local liaison officer
There are currently three vacancies for ALIA LLOs. These part-time positions are available in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. Details are advertised in the January/February issue of inCite, via RSS feeds, e-lists, and on the ALIA website.
http://alia.org.au/employment/vacancies/

Bigger discounts for ALIA/CAVAL training
CAVAL Training is offering ten per cent discounts for ALIA members for all courses and workshops in 2006. Student members, new graduates (in the first two years post-qualification), and unemployed colleagues qualify for an even better fifty per cent discount. Some conditions apply. NEW in 2006: ALIA institutional members are eligible for a five per cent discount on all in-house training provided by CAVAL. All courses run by CAVAL qualify for ALIA PD scheme points.
http://alia.org.au/education/pd/services.html

Professor Nick Moore workshops
CAVAL and ALIA welcome UK academic and consultant Professor Nick Moore to Australia. Professor Moore will present two half-day workshops, 'Designing and managing research projects' and 'Information policy: implications for Australia'. Grab this rare opportunity. Perth: 24 February; Melbourne: 27 February; Canberra: 2 March; Sydney: 6 March; Brisbane: 8 March. Special ALIA discount price: $227.04 (inc GST) per workshop.
http://alia.org.au/events/

The Metcalfe awarded to Clare Granville
Clare Glanville recently won the ALIA Metcalfe Award, which will be presented on 30 January. Clare is the campus librarian (Springfield) at the University of Southern Queensland. Join Queensland ALIAns at the presentation to congratulate Clare on her award [http://alia.org.au/events/qld.html]. The Metcalfe Award acknowledges high achievement by a personal member in the first five years of practice. Nominations for next year's award close on 1 August.
http://alia.org.au/awards/

NSW Mentoring Program 2006
The ALIA NSW Mentoring Program began in 2005 and had a great year. The feedback from mentors and proteges was very positive. It is running in 2006, but due to an error on the application forms, none was received prior to 16 December. Apologies! If you submitted an application before this date, please submit your form again.
http://alia.org.au/groups/mentoringnsw/mentoring/

Jean Arnot Fellowship - apply now!
The Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to a female librarian or student of librarianship from any part of Australia for an outstanding paper of approximately 5000 words, on any aspect of librarianship. The award - of $1000 - is presented at a luncheon in Sydney. Winners have represented many different aspects of librarianship and have worked in public, school, university and government libraries from all over the country. Further information, including application forms and conditions, and information about previous winners, is available.
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/

Feedback
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