December 2008

In this aliaPUBNEWS broadcast:

Publications
Business and Population Monitor; Local Government Comparative Statistics (NSW); People of Australia

Awards and Scholarships
Award for Literature

Celebrating Libraries and Librarians
Barack Obama on Public Libraries; Library Lovers Day - Saturday 14th February 2009; The Librarians Song

News from ALIA
Christmas wishes from ALIA and have a great new year!; inCite theme for March 2009 issue: Marketing your library; ALIA Board of Directors - call for nominations; ALIA Public Libraries Summit-Thursday 26 March 2009; The ALIA PD Scheme audit; ALIA Information Online Conference and Exhibition workshops; The 2009 Summer Reading Club season kicks off!; Safer Internet Day - 10th February 2009

International
IFLA call for nominations for sections; Imagining the Internet; Google Deal or Rip-Off?

Web Resources
Google Book Search; How Web 2.0 Will Transform Local Government

Believe it or Not!
Perfect Weeding Music

National
ABS to release material under Creative Commons

Conferences
LIANZA Conference 2009

Publications

Business and Population Monitor
Business and Population Monitor This report from PKF and Access Economics focuses on the impact of ageing and the risks and business opportunities of an ageing Australia. One of the biggest challenges facing Australia at the moment is the ageing population, particularly the impact on spending, infrastructure and the workforce. It is clear that all levels of government, business and individual consumers are faced with a number of challenges driven by our ageing population and rapidly rising health care costs. Over the next 40 years, the number of Australians over the age of 85 will increase by 500%, due in part to rising life expectancies together with a demographic bulge of the baby boomers. The PKF Business and Population Monitor examines in detail the impact of ageing in three key areas; (a) The impact of ageing on particular communities; (b) The impact of ageing on particular sectors and businesses; and (c) How ageing will create a series of business opportunities. Source: PKF Business and Population Monitor (2008)
http://tinyurl.com/3l893j

Local Government Comparative Statistics (NSW)
The NSW Department of Local Government has released its 2006/2007 comparative statistics publication. Click the following link to download a copy in PDF:
http://tinyurl.com/3srzqp

People of Australia
The People of Australia publication, released every five years, draws on Census data to show a range of demographic trends in local government areas including birthplaces, ancestry, languages and religious affiliations. The publication shows that between 2001 and 2006: * Chinese, Indians and New Zealanders were the most rapidly growing overseas‐born groups * Greater Dandenong became Australia’s multicultural capital, with more than 25 different nationalities represented among its population * The number of South‐African‐born people in Western Australia grew by 42% * Australia's fastest growing languages were Mandarin, Arabic and Hindi * Buddhism (up 17%), Islam (up 20.9%) and Hinduism (up 55%) were our fastest growing religions *People born in Greece, Croatia and Slovenia had the highest rates of Australian citizenship *A total of 72% of the population claim to be Christian (though only a third of these will go to church this Christmas), with 4.9% for Buddhists, Moslems, Hindus and Jews taken together, in order of size, and 18.9% for No Religion. A PDF copy of the publication can be downloaded from:
http://tinyurl.com/4jtolu

Awards and Scholarships

Award for Literature
Waverley Library (Sydney, NSW) is pleased to announce the winner of the "The Nib": 2008 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature: http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/award/calwinner2008.asp The winner's prize of $20,000 & receipt of "The Nib" (statuette) acknowledges excellence in research If you would like to know even more about the Award please go to: http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/award

Celebrating Libraries and Librarians

Barack Obama on Public Libraries
In 2005, Barack Obama told American Libraries magazine: People always mention libraries in terms of just being sources for reading material or research. But I probably would not be in Chicago were it not for the Manhattan public library, because I was looking for an organizing job and was having great trouble finding a job as a community organizer in New York. The Mid-Manhattan Library had these books of lists of organizations, and the librarian helped me find these lists of organizations, and I wrote to every organization. One of them wound up being an organization in Chicago that I got a job with. The help is still there, and in even greater sophistication. Check it out.
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/news/topstories/firstjob.cfm

Library Lovers Day - Saturday 14th February 2009
For centuries February 14 has been known as Valentine's Day, a time beloved of romantics. Now a new era has begun with Library Lovers everywhere claiming the day for the objects of their special affection - Australia's libraries. Visit the Library Lovers Day website from mid December to purchase the enormously popular Library Lovers Day heart shaped stickers - be sure to get in quick as stocks are limited!
http://www.librarylovers.org.au/

The Librarians Song
Check out some great library video clips at the 'I love Libraries' web site. The Librarians Song is particularly worth a listen.
http://tinyurl.com/2dfayu

News from ALIA

Christmas wishes from ALIA and have a great new year!
Christmas is nearly here, and all the staff at ALIA National Office and the Board of Directors wish you all a happy festive season. Thanks again for being a member of ALIA during 2008. Look out on the ALIA website during December for the 'Twelve Days of ALIA' Christmas song.

inCite theme for March 2009 issue: Marketing your library
Contribute to your member magazine! March's feature topic is 'Marketing your library'. Contributions on this theme and stories of interest from individuals and libraries are welcome. Please include a high resolution photo if you have one. Send your articles by 31 January 2009 to incite@alia.org.au
http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/

ALIA Board of Directors - call for nominations
**Reminder** Nominations are called for ALIA Vice-president (President-elect) and two positions on the Board of Directors of ALIA as incorporated under Corporations Law. Nominations close at 5:00pm AEST Wednesday 14th January 2009.
http://www.alia.org.au/governance/elections/2009/

ALIA Public Libraries Summit-Thursday 26 March 2009
The Summit will invite the federal government to engage with ALIA, other library associations, and the public library associations and network around Australia, to develop a national agenda. Participants will be invited to attend. In addition to those invited to the Summit, all interested people and groups are invited to submit working papers. These papers must be submitted by Friday 27 February 2009.
http://www.alia.org.au/summit09

The ALIA PD Scheme audit
The PD Scheme audit is starting soon. Selection for participation in the audit is completely random and will involve 10 per cent of the PD Scheme registrants. All members selected to participate in the 2007-2008 audit will be required to provide a record of PD activities as per the requirements of the scheme. Please direct your enquiries regarding this audit to the ALIA PD Officer by email pd@alia.org.au or phone 02 6215 8222.
http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/scheme/audit.html

ALIA Information Online Conference and Exhibition workshops
You don't have to attend the 2009 ALIA Information Online Conference and Exhibition to register for one of our targeted workshops. Why not take advantage of the great selection of learning opportunities delivered through this series of workshops. For more information download the registration brochure http://www.information-online.com.au. Bookings are open until 12 December. To avoid disappointment please secure your place now! As a member of the ALIA PD Scheme you also have the opportunity to earn ALIA PD points by attending these workshops. Under the Informal Learning Activities category you can earn 1 point for every attendance hour. For more information visit http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/scheme/.

The 2009 Summer Reading Club season kicks off!
The official Summer Reading Club program is now off and racing! So from 1st December 2008 to the 15th February 2009, Get in the game, READ! for the main event this summer! The Summer Reading Club program encourages young people of all ages in reading, writing, sharing books and other fun and engaging literature based activities over the summer period. Whatever your sporting focus, the Summer Reading Club program 2009 is sure to be a winner! Your season ticket is activated, so let the games begin! The Summer Reading Club 2009 - Get in the game, READ! is proudly sponsored by ANZ. 
http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au

Safer Internet Day - 10th February 2009
The main objective of Safer Internet Day 2009 is to bring together relevant public and private stakeholders, in as many countries as possible, to raise awareness about safe and responsible use of new technologies especially among children and young people. In Australia, it is coordinated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
http://www.saferinternet.org

International

IFLA call for nominations for sections
As part of ALIA's membership of IFLA, you can nominate as an ALIA representative for one of the 10 IFLA sections to which ALIA belongs. For more details, look at the December issue of inCite. The sections and current ALIA representatives are listed on the ALIA website. Deadline 4 February 2009.
http://www.alia.org.au/governance/committees/external

Imagining the Internet
Future of the Internet III - 2008 [Pew Internet and American Life Project] In this web-based survey, 578 leading Internet activists, builders, and commentators and 618 additional stakeholders (1,196 respondents) were asked to assess thought-provoking proposed scenarios for the year 2020. The point of this non-random survey was to add focused input to the ongoing conversation about the future of the Internet; respondents' written elaborations—the qualitative results—were the most valuable data gathered by the study. Accordingly a site has been built with links to thousands of answers. Read more at:
http://tinyurl.com/6xn2xw

Google Deal or Rip-Off?
Librarians need to protect the public interest One public access terminal per public library building. Institutional database subscriptions for academic and public libraries that secure once freely available material in a contractual lockbox, which librarians already know too well from costly e-journal and e-reference database deals. No remote access for public libraries without approval from the publisher/author Book Rights Registry, set up to administer the program. And no copying or pasting from that institutional database, though you can print pages for a fee. Of course, you can always purchase the book, too. A longish article but interesting about the very restrictive deal with Google and public libraries for scanned books. Read more at:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6618842.html

Web Resources

Google Book Search
Google Book search now searches magazine articles including Popular Science, Mens Health, New York Magazine, etc You just go to Advance search on Google Books http://books.google.com/ and select Magazines in the Contents field, and full view in the search field and voila!!
http://books.google.com/

How Web 2.0 Will Transform Local Government
Are you looking for ideas and examples of how local government can use Web 2.0? Read more at:
http://www.govtech.com/pcio/articles/417520

Believe it or Not!

Perfect Weeding Music
Now here's an idea - why not put together a CD compilation to weed by :-) Read more at:
http://tinyurl.com/4xco6h

National

ABS to release material under Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides a spectrum of licensing for the use of intellectual property between full copyright and public domain – in essence ’some rights reserved’. The Australian Bureau of Statistics is poised to introduce Creative Commons licensing for the majority of its web content. You will soon be able to go forth and remix, re-purpose and re-use material created by the ABS. You can even make huge amounts of money by re-selling the information if you can work out how to - just as long as you cite the source of your data.

Conferences

LIANZA Conference 2009
The LIANZA Conference 2009 will take place in Christchurch, in the South Island of New Zealand, from 12 to 14 October, 2009. Information about our MC, our conference convenor and exhibition stands can be found on the website; and regular updates of information about keynote speakers, calls for abstracts, registrations and updates on the programme will begin in January 2009. Bookmark the web page and/or register your interest at http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/welcome.html to be kept informed of developments. We invite you to find out more on the website:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/

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