Welcome to the December 2010 edition of aliaPUBNEWS.aliaPUBNEWS is a free monthly electronic bulletin for everyone concerned with supporting and promoting the further development of Australia's public library services.We'd love to hear news and comments from readers - contact details at the end of this newsletter. And please feel free to pass this on to colleagues. [Permission is granted to re-broadcast, in part or full.] |
- Inter Library Lending Survey - tell us what you think
- ALIA Information Online - still time to register
- National standard and guidelines, vision and framework for public libraries - coming soon
- A seat on the board
- Library Lovers Day
- Safer Internet Day
- Summer Reading Club - Scare Up a Good Book
- inCite - the Association's magazine - contributions welcomed
CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
ALIA NEWS
Inter Library Lending Survey - tell us what you think
This survey will determine the payment methods used currently in inter-library lending, how important the payment methods are to you and whether you see other payment options as desirable. You can use the comments box in question 11 to add your thoughts regarding a review of inter-library lending. Results will be made available during 2011. Please take the time to complete this survey. You can find it at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ilvs_survey_stage2 until 21 January 2011. Any questions, please contact Rob Miller at rob.miller@alia.org.au or on 02 6215 8220.
ALIA Information Online 2011
Busy in the run up to Christmas? Take five minutes to register for ALIA Information Online, from 1 - 3 February 2011, in Sydney. ALIA Access 2010 was a sell-out, so don't leave it too late for this one. http://www.information-online.com.au/
National standards and guidelines, vision and framework for public libraries
The final versions of these documents will go up on the ALIA website early in 2011 at http://www.alia.org.au/governance/committees/public.libraries/.
A seat on the board
Nominations are open for the ALIA Vice President (President-elect) and two Directors. Find out more at http://www.alia.org.au/governance/elections/2011/. Nominations close January 12, 2011.ALIA REMINDERS
Library Lovers Day
What are you doing for Valentine's Day 2011? It's Library Lovers Day and the start of the 12-month countdown to the launch of the National Year of Reading in 2012. Find out more about ALIA's annual celebration at http://www.librarylovers.org.au/.
Safer Internet Day
Another date for the diary is Safer Internet Day on 8 Feb 2011. There's a special section about resources for libraries on the government website at http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/Libraries.aspx
Summer Reading Club
The 2010-2011 Summer Reading Club began on 1 December and runs through until February. The theme this year is Scare Up a Good Book. Don't forget to tell us what you're doing - we'd love to see your spooky displays and creepy costumes. http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au. And to help us celebrate the start of ALIA's Summer Reading Club, TheReadingRoom.com is giving a $100 gift voucher to one lucky member of ALIA. More at www.theReadingRoom.com or email caroline@thereadingroom.com.
incite - the Association's magazine - contributions welcomed
The theme for January/February is Connections. How do you manage your professional networks and relationships? We welcome your contributions. Send your stories to incite@alia.org.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address) by 7 January 2011.http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/deadlines.html
OTHER NEWS
Flooding across central New South Wales and Victoria has not only caused havoc for householders, it has also had a devastating effect on some libraries. At least three, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo and Inverloch have closed, and, more rain is forecast.
Public Libraries Victorian Network is getting to grips with the implications of a change of government, following the Liberal's success in the November state election. Meanwhile, Public Libraries NSW is gearing up for its state election in March 2011.
Regina Sutton is to leave the State Library of NSW at the end of the year. Her resignation, for personal reasons, means that two top jobs - State Librarian of NSW and National Librarian - will have new occupants in 2011.
The winners of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards were Eva Horning, for Dog Boy (fiction), Grace Karskens for The Colony: The History of Early Sydney (non-fiction), Bill Condon for Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God (young adult fiction), and Lorraine Marwood for Star Jumps (children's fiction).
The Public Lending Rights committee's annual report reveals the most popular five books for borrowing from Australian public libraries are Possum Magic (Mem Fox), The Secret River (Kate Grenville), The Six Sacred Stones (Matthew Reilly), Mao's Last Dancer (Li Cunxin), and People of the Book (Geraldine Jones).
Prahran library, claimed to be the oldest municipal library in Victoria, has celebrated its 150th anniversary with the launch of a book entitled The Pride of Prahran.
Congratulations to Catherine Killmier, manager of the Doncaster branch of Whitehorse Manningham Regional Library Corporation, who has won the Library Board of Victoria's 2010 Margery C Ramsay Scholarship, worth $30,000.
Congratulations too to Willoughby City Library, which has won the 2010 VALA award, presented every other year to the Australian library or information centre thought to have made the most innovative use of information technology.
CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS
ALIA Information Online Conference and Exhibition
With ALIA Access 2010 still fresh in our memories, it's time to think about the next major event for library and information professionals. ALIA Information Online takes place from 1 - 3 February, in Sydney. http://www.information-online.com.au/
Back-to-back
We're making it a double in Perth next year, with two big ALIA events running back-to-back. It starts at the Sheraton Hotel from 12-16 September with Back to Basics for library technicians, and continues from 16-18 with ALIA's 5th New Librarians Symposium for emerging professionals. http://conferences.alia.org.au/libtec2011/ and http://conferences.alia.org.au/nls5/FORTHCOMING EVENTS
| February 1 -3 | ALIA Information Online, Sydney | http://www.information-online.com.au/ |
| May 22-25 | LGMA National Congress, Cairns, Queensland | http://www.lgma.org.au |
| September 12-16 | ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Conference, Perth, WA | http://conferences.alia.org.au/libtec2011/ |
| September 16-18 | ALIA 5th New Librarians Symposium, Perth, WA | http://conferences.alia.org.au/nls5/ |
AND FINALLY
Merry Christmas to everyone who receives aliaPUBNEWS. We hope you have a wonderful break over the festive season and we look forward to catching up with you again in the New Year.
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