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   June 2011

Welcome to the June 2011 edition of aliaPUBNEWS.


Back by popular demand in 2011, aliaPUBNEWS is a free monthly electronic bulletin for everyone concerned with supporting and promoting the further development of Australia's public library services.

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ALIA NEWS

ALIA REMINDERS
OTHER NEWS

INTERNATIONAL

CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS
FORTHCOMING EVENTS

ALIA NEWS

Making Australia a reading nation - with The Wiggles

Like us, The Wiggles want your kids to love books and reading from an early age - it's one of the best things we can all do to help them develop good literacy skills. The Wiggles have thrown their support behind the cause of literacy and fun times to encourage young children to get into the reading habit. The superstar group have made two community service announcements for ALIA. You can see them and download other resources at http://www.alia.org.au/wiggles/about.html.

Adult Learners Week - writing competition

ALIA, in conjunction with NYR12, the NT Writers Centre, Queensland Writers Centre and writingWA, has received an Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations grant to facilitate a writing competition as part of Adult Learners' Week 2011 with prizes worth $45,000. "It's never too late... to learn to read" is a short story competition for unpublished, new, emerging and established Australian writers. http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/nyor/adult.learners.html.

Victorian Floods Commission submission

ALIA joined with PLVN to make a submission to the Victorian Floods review to highlight the impact of the floods on the library community and to focus on the vital role public libraries have played in the recovery process. The ALIA PLVN submission can be seen at http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/submissions/.

The Library Initiative - second round

The second round of the Library Initiative, providing playback devices for print impaired library users, has been completed. We are pleased to have been able to increase the number of devices to 1259. The next step is to get training underway and to have the playback devices available for use by library borrowers. FAQs about the project at http://www.alia.org.au/Library_Initiative/faqs.html.

ALIA REMINDERS

Membership renewals

A new financial year means a new ALIA membership year. Time to make sure your ALIA membership is up-to-date so that you can continue to enjoy all of your member benefits. Membership invoices have recently been issued. Contact our membership team if you need any assistance membership@alia.org.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address) or download the ALIA Institutional Membership application form at http://www.alia.org.au/membership.benefits/.

IBSA review of Library Technician training

ALIA continues to work closely with employers, educators, Library technicians and IBSA as part of the review of the national training package for Library Technicians. Additional validation sessions will be held in Perth and Adelaide on 27 and 29 June respectively. Register for these sessions at http://www.ibsa.org.au/news-and-projects/news/tabid/112/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/365/Additional-CUL04-Validation-Workshops-Registration.aspx .

Standards and Guidelines for Australian Public Libraries

Did you miss the The Standards and Guidelines for Australian Public Libraries which were launched on 1 April? This great resource can be downloaded at http://www.alia.org.au/publiclibraries.

inCite - contributions needed

The September edition of inCite is all about Stepping up, Stepping out. We need your contributions on how public libraries are being proactive about driving their future for users, employees and organisations . Deadline 1 August. Send your items to incite@alia.org.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address).

National Simultaneous Storytime - resources still online

National Simultaneous Storytime was a standout success with over 170,000 children participating on the day. Feathers for Phoebe by Rob Clement was greeted with much enthusiasm as our NSS book. Podcasts, PowerPoints and recordings of the book, including an AUSLAN interpretation, are still available for download at http://www.alia.org.au/storytime/resources.html for libraries who wish to hold an encore performance.

OTHER NEWS

As National Year of Reading 2012 gets closer it's even more important to stay on top of announcements and programs. Visit the NYR12 wiki and participate in this collaborative space built to assist libraries in promoting and developing NYR12.
Share resources at http://love2read2012.wikispaces.com/
Stay up-to-date with NYR12 announcements at http://www.love2read.org.au

Adelaide City Council library has released a new app to allow library members to access the library catalogue via iPhone. http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/library.html

The National Library of Australia's free discovery service, Trove, took top honours at the 2011 Australian Government ICT Awards. Trove won both the 2011 Excellence in eGovernment Award and the Service Delivery Category Award for harnessing digital technology to improve service delivery and successfully linking users to millions of resources online. http://trove.nla.gov.au/.

For Victorian public library staff, applications are now invited for the 2011 Barrett Reid Scholarship, valued at $30,000. Applications close 27 July. http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/infonet/org.cgi?detail=1&id=86.

Libraries ACT have been busy with the launch of a new name, new website and a new branch library at Gungahlin. http://www.library.act.gov.au/home.

Webcasts from SLQ's highly successful Living Literacy Forum, held on 6 June 2011, are now available. See presentations by keynote speakers Bernard Salt of KPMG and Deb Stumm, SLQ, at http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/webcasts/litlang.

Recognising the growing demands on public sector organisations to make smarter decisions, deliver results and demonstrate accountability,The IBM Institute for Business Value has released a new report The power of analytics for public sector: Building analytics competency to accelerate outcomes. https://www.nascio.org/events/sponsors/vrc/Analytics%20in%20the%20public%20sector3.pdf.

A new advisory group to the SLQ, The Performance Management Framework Working Group (PMFWG) has come together to develop performance measurement and reporting for public libraries in order to support the ongoing development of Queensland public library services. The Bibliostat suite of online statistics management products, used already in various States, was selected for use. Bibliostat will enable comparability along with the facility to design reports, define peer groups for benchmarking and provide graphical representation of performance measures. Industry response is welcomed to any of the Group members. Find out more at http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/publib/networks/pmf.

The State Library of Victoria has announced they were unable to secure their preferred candidate for the position of State Librarian and will recommence the recruitment process at a later date. Meanwhile, the State Library of NSW has announced their new State Librarian will be... ;-)

INTERNATIONAL

Christine McKenzie CEO of Yarra Plenty Regional Library and former ALIA President has been elected to the IFLA Governing Board for 2011 - 13 as the only Australian representative. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. http://www.ifla.org/en/news/results-of-election-of-governing-board-2011.

Library staff have joined the public to encircle the New York Public Library's 42nd Street branch in Manhattan in a giant hug to show their support for the public library they love. The protest was a response to proposed budget cuts of $40 million from the branches in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. Queens and Brooklyn library branches have their own separate budget and are facing their own reductions. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/06/04/new.york.library.demonstration/.

In Britain, CILIP reports The National Federation of Women's Institutes are campaigning in support of public libraries. With over 208,000 members and a history of campaigning on a wide range of important issues, the WI is respected as a powerful lobbying force. "I'm thrilled that we have a new and powerful friend fighting our corner," said Annie Mauger, Chief Executive of CILIP, "It's fabulous news for the millions of people across the UK that love their libraries. Libraries are an essential education and information resource. They are at the heart of communities across the country and are too important to lose." http://www.cilip.org.uk/news-media/pages/news110608.aspx.

CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS

QPLA Conference

Call for papers for the QPL Conference is now open. Logan City Council Libraries will be hosting the next QPLA conference to be held from the 26 - 28 September 2011. The conference theme is "What would Andrew Carnegie think now?" Papers are sought for individual sessions comprising 20 minute presentations for the stream "Librarians on the front line". http://www.qpla.asn.au/events-a-conferences/current-events

Back-to-back

We're making it a double in Perth this 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. Terrific discounts apply for ALIA members. http://conferences.alia.org.au/libtec2011/ and http://conferences.alia.org.au/nls5/

SWITCH 2011

Registrations are now open for SWITCH 2011: Innovative, Inspired, Intuitive - the Digital World of Public Libraries will take place from 20-23 November 2011, at the SMC Conference & Function Centre, Sydney, Australia. http://www.plmnsw.org.au/web/Default.aspx?PageID=1302&SiteID=46

Connection and Convergence: Second International Conference on Joint Use Libraries

Registrations are now open for Connection and Convergence: Second International Conference on Joint Use Libraries to be held in Adelaide 3-4 November 2011. http://www.auslib.com.au/pdfs/Connection_and_convergence_registration_form.pdf

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

29 July ALIA Top End Garden Party - Darwin http://www.alia.org.au/groups/topend/activities/index.html?2011-07&topend
30 July thirtyseveneleven unconference - Sydney http://twoseveneleven.wordpress.com/
13 - 18 August IFLA Conference Puerto Rico http://conference.ifla.org/en/ifla77
2 August
1 September		 Australian Copyright Council seminar - Canberra:
Australian Copyright Council seminar - Sydney		 http://www.copyright.org.au/seminars


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