aliaNEWS - March 2011

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March 2011

Welcome to the March aliaNEWS!

YOUR ASSOCIATION

New D-G announced: ALIA congratulates Anne-Marie Schwirtlich on her appointment to the position of Director-General of the National Library of Australia. inCite will be interviewing Anne-Marie soon, meanwhile check here for media release and radio interview: http://www.nla.gov.au/news/story.php?id=380
Inquiry into School Libraries and Teacher Librarians final report soon to be released. Keep up to date via ALIA e-lists and http://www.alia.org.au/schoollibraries
Celebrations and acknowledgements features news about retirees, awards and achievements at http://aliaretirees.blogspot.com/. Contributions can be forwarded to Mylee Joseph at mjoseph@sl.nsw.gov.au
Library love-in: why do you love your library? inCite wants to know for the May issue. Contribution guidelines at http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/guidelines.html. Deadline April 1.

Events

ALIA Information Online: Conference Papers now available at http://www.information-online.com.au/
ALIA Biennial Conference website launched : Register your interest and receive regular updates regarding the ALIA Biennial 2012 Conference. http://conferences.alia.org.au/alia2012/
Library and Information Week 2011 - We find stuff! Although a little surprising, this year's theme highlights that libraries are far more than just books and speaks directly to the user in a language that is familiar. More at http://www.alia.org.au/liw/

PD

ALIA Training - what's on next!

EndNote Training : Melbourne 25 Feb (SOLD OUT!) & 6 May, Canberra 18 Mar, Syd 1 Apr. http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/pd.services/brochures/EndNote.ALIA.Training.with.Jenny.Cameron.2011.pdf
Web 2.0 Why? What? How? for your Library: Monitor and Enhance Information Access Online course 16 May - 30 June. http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/pd.services/brochures/TAFE.Monitor.and.Enhance.Inf.ALIA.Training.2011.pdf

Out and about

National Year of Reading 2010: The countdown has begun! More: http://www.love2read.org.au/
ALTC update : The Senate votes in a few days on flood levy and after that we will know more about the future for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council - we hope. Til then, more at http://www.liseducation.org.au/
Social media savvy : is your library getting to grips with social media? Then don't bother to blog if you want to reach teenagers. They've moved on to Facebook, bigtime. More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/technology/internet/21blog.html?_r=1
iinet is not responsible : A group of 34 movie studios headed by Village Roadshow has lost its appeal against a Federal Court judgment involving internet service provider iiNet, upholding a landmark ruling from last year, in which the courts had found it was impossible to hold iiNet responsible for its users illegally downloading movies and television shows. More: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/iinet-wins-illegal-download-appeal/story-e6frg90f-1226011448064

COMPETITION!!

Bag a bunch of bags for your library! We have three stashes of our much-loved eco-bags to give away this month. All you need to do to win is be one of the first three to email inCite@alia.org.au with the correct answer to this question: What's the name of the organisation that is ALIA's charity partner and also presents the annual MayDay disaster preparedness program? Please include your ALIA membership number with your reply.

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