January 2008

In this aliaPUBNEWS broadcast:

International
Library partners with juvenile jail; American Library Association announces literary award winners

National
Library Lovers Day 14 February 2008; Public Lending Right; Public Library Statistics

News from ALIA
Call for Nominations for ALIA Board of Directors - Final Reminder; ALIA Member discount for CSU publication

Conferences
Library Stars: best of the best 2008 - Call for Submissions

Policy and advocacy
ALIA Education and Workforce Summit 2008; Investing in Australia's Future Through Its Public Library System - Why, Wh; Library Quote

Believe it or Not!
OCLC and The Library Hotel settle trademark complaint

Celebrating Libraries and Librarians
Seven Wonders: Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet

Public Libraries Australia
Public Libraries Australia Planning Workshop

International

Library partners with juvenile jail
The Fayetteville Public Library partnered with the Washington County Juvenile Detention Center to provide life skills classes for teenagers. Now both groups are hoping to continue that relationship in the coming year by offering a program to encourage reading. Read more at:
http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/60586/

American Library Association announces literary award winners
PHILADELPHIA - The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults - including the Caldecott, King, Newbery, Schneider Family and Printz awards - at its Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Read more at:
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagemen

National

Library Lovers Day 14 February 2008
Once known as Valentine's Day, now known as a time for Library Lovers. Use your creative flair to help celebrate the day and have fun! Official Library Lovers Day merchandise is now available. This is a joint ALIA and PLA initiative.
http://www.librarylovers.org.au

Public Lending Right
The federally funded Public Lending Right Committee reports that in 2006/2007 a total of $7.1 million was paid to authors, artists and publishers. This was based on the number of their books held in public libraries. The highest paid author received $85,576.05 and while it's not known who received this amount it could have been Mem Fox, whose 'Where is the Green Sheep' and 'Possum Magic' are the 2 top holdings nationally in public libraries. Alternatively, it could have been Bryce Courtenay whose book 'Whitehorn' ranks third and who has 8 books in the top 50. Most authors only receive between $50 and $4,000, with numbers dwindling significantly above that figure. $10.4 million was also paid out under the Educational Lending Right to those with books in school and university libraries.

Public Library Statistics
How will we do in in 2008/2009? In 2005-2006: 6.1 million people visited our libraries; 175.5 million people visited our websites; 8,161 websites were permanently archived; $26.3 million was spent purchasing resources for collections; $4.1 billion was the total asset value of our collections; and $931.3 million was the total asset value of our buildings/sites.

News from ALIA

Call for Nominations for ALIA Board of Directors - Final Reminder
The call for nominations for the ALIA Board of Directors is now open. Nominations are due by close of business on Friday, 1 February 2008. Forms are available from ALIA National Office.
http://www.alia.org.au/governance/elections/2008

ALIA Member discount for CSU publication
Libraries in the twenty-first century is a collection of papers that brings together leading library educators and practitioners and provides a scholarly yet accessible overview of library and information management and the challenges that the twenty-first century offers the information profession. **ALIA members receive a 5% discount.
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/CIS/L21C/index.htm

Conferences

Library Stars: best of the best 2008 - Call for Submissions
The Library Stars forum, hosted by ALIA‚s Public Libraries Advisory Committee (PLAC), will showcase public libraries, their projects, and successes on 2 September 2008 at a satellite event as part of the ALIA 2008 Biennial Conference in Alice Springs. Public libraries are invited to submit a proposal for presentation. Three will be selected and those libraries will be given a travel grant of $1,000 each to assist with costs in attending the conference. Deadline for proposals is 29 February. http://www.alia.org.au/governance/committees/public.libraries/inviting.submissions.html
http://www.alia.org.au/governance/committees/public.libraries/inviting.subm

Policy and advocacy

ALIA Education and Workforce Summit 2008
The Education and Workforce Summit will be held on Friday 28 March 2008 at the State Library of Victoria. It will discuss critical issues in library and information education and in the library workforce. ALIA members and groups are invited to make submissions and comments to the Summit which will be made available on the website.
http://www.alia.org.au/education/summit08/

Investing in Australia's Future Through Its Public Library System - Why, Wh
Australia now has a comprehensive and very heavily used public library system. This has developed in only the last 50 years, largely through state/territory and local government partnership. A paper from Friends of Libraries Australia:
http://www.fola.org.au/pdfs/Investing_in_Australias_future.pdf

Library Quote
From Isaac Asimov US author (1920-1992): ‘When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.’ Do you have any great quotations about public libraries? Please email them to Roger Henshaw at roger@rhcs.com.au for inclusion in future editions of aliaPUBNEWS.

Believe it or Not!

OCLC and The Library Hotel settle trademark complaint
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 24 November 2003—OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and The Library Hotel (New York, New York) have reached a settlement agreement regarding the use of the Dewey Decimal Classification® system trademarks by The Library Hotel (http://www.libraryhotel.com/). On Sept. 10, 2003, OCLC filed a trademark infringement complaint against The Library Hotel in federal court in Columbus, Ohio. Under the settlement terms, The Library Hotel will receive permission from OCLC to use the Dewey Decimal Classification® trademarks in its hotel and in its marketing materials, with an acknowledgment that OCLC is the owner of the Dewey® trademarks. The Library Hotel will make a financial donation to a non-profit organization that promotes reading by children. Read more at:
http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/20031124.htm

Celebrating Libraries and Librarians

Seven Wonders: Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet
Excerpt from the Seven Wonders: The Public Library: By reducing the demand for paper, a library saves forests from logging and rivers from erosion and pulp mill waste. A book printed on 100 percent recycled paper -- like Seven Wonders requires only 60 percent of the energy needed to make a regular book and generates half as much waste. A "100 percent reused" library book produces no waste and consumes no energy.
http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et1199/et1199s2.html

Public Libraries Australia

Public Libraries Australia Planning Workshop
The PLA Board of Directors, which includes representatives from ALIA and NSLA held a planning workshop in Melbourne 21-22 January 2008. The 2 day workshop reviewed the role, scope and future directions of Public Libraries Australia and its collaboration with ALIA and state/territory library associations. Day 2 of the workshop was particularly valuable as it was attended by ALIA President Roxanne Missingham and ALIA Public Libraries Advisory Committee representative Christine Mackenzie. The outcomes of the workshop will be available from the PLA web page for comment by the end of February 2008. Further information can be obtained by contacting Roger Henshaw at: rhenshaw@pla.org.au

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