aliaNEWS - May 2011

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May 2011

Welcome to the May aliaNEWS!

YOUR ASSOCIATION

ALIA AGM: Tuesday May 17, 6pm at ALIA House (9-11 Napier Close, Deakin). It's your Association, be there and be part of it!
New ALIA Careers Advisory Committee announced: Alison Neil, Anthea Taylor, Fiona Blackburn, Katherine Howard, Jane Orbell-Smith, Margie Anderson, Mary McGeoch and Tania Barry have now been appointed to this Committee. The Chair will be announced shortly.
Welcome to our new specialist eNewsletter sponsors: The One Umbrella is now sponsoring PD Postings and Insync Surveys are the new sponsors of LIS Management in Focus. Not a subscriber? Jump online and sign up now: http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/enewsletters/
July inCite: future perfect? It's about planning, people and patrons but what do you think it should look like? Contribution guidelines at http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/guidelines.html. Deadline June 1.
And don't forget - inCite wants your happy snaps of LIW, NSS and all those other great May events in your library. Send your pics to inCite@alia.org.au (they have to be 100Kb at least and anyone in them needs to give permission for their images to be published).

Events

Wear your ALIA pin with pride this May! There are so many events to celebrate for library and information professionals this month (see the back cover of May inCite for a list). So how about wearing your ALIA pin and striking up a conversation about why libraries matter.
Check out the events on in May at http://www.alia.org.au/events/

PD

How's your pedagogical prowess? Master the art of designing and delivering effective face-to-face information skills training. More: http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/pd.services/brochures/FOLIOz.Design.and.Deliver.Info.Skills.Training.ALIA.Training.2011.pdf
SPECIAL OFFER Once you've got the basics of information skills training in hand why not explore how to do it online? e-FOLIO: an introduction to e-learning begins in September. Enrol in BOTH FOLIOz courses and receive a 20% discount (You must register for both courses by 23 May to take advantage of this special offer) More: http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/pd.services/brochures/FOLIOz.e-FOLIO.and.Intro.to.e-learning.ALIA.Training.2011.pdf
Disasters and Libraries: be prepared Join a teleconference to discuss disaster preparedness within the LIS sector and learn more through a focus on the ALIA Guide to Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery for Libraries. FREE for members: http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/pd.services/brochures/Teleconference.Disaster.Preparedness.ALIA.Training.2011.pdf

Out and about

CAL funding for Miles Franklin shortlist: Copyright Australia Limited's Cultural Fund has awarded $5000 prize money to each of the shortlisted authors for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award. More: http://www.copyright.com.au/Latest_News/2011_Calibre_Prize_shortlist_announced.aspx
Ebooks not going away any time soon: American sales figures show Ebooks outperforming all print categories for the first time. More: http://www.publishers.org/press/30/

COMPETITION!!

Are you ready for the merry (library-mad) month of May? You will be if you win one of our three Library and Information Week/National Simultaneous Storytime promotion packs in this month's competition. Just tell us what time and which day this month thousands of Aussie kids will be reading Feathers for Phoebe by Rod Clement. Email your answer to incite@alia.org.au and please include your membership number and postal address for prizes in your answer. Good luck!

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