ALIA NEWS

• ALIA Biennial Conference trade exhibition
• Library and Information Week 2012
• National Simultaneous Storytime 2012
• ALIA Annual Report

• The Value of Libraries Symposium
• ALIA training - Managing challenging clients
• ALIA Biennial Conference mentors
• ALIA is now on Pinterest

• Child Friendly Cities conference
• RAILS8
• Discovery: ALIA Biennial 2012 Conference
• Public Libraries NSW Conference
• AUSLIB

ALIA NEWS

ALIA Biennial Conference trade exhibition

Library and Information Week 2012

National Simultaneous Storytime 2012

ALIA Annual Report

ALIA REMINDERS

The Value of Libraries Symposium

ALIA training - Managing challenging clients

ALIA Biennial Conference mentors

ALIA is now on Pinterest

OTHER NEWS

• Public Libraries SA have begun roll out their One Card system, bringing all public libraries in the state under the same library management system.
  http://www.libraries.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=499


• The Victorian Government 2012-13 State Budget provided a total of $12.7 million for local libraries including an extra $3.1 million per year for the delivery of library services.
  http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/3766-coalition-provides-13-million-for-victorias-libraries-.html


• The call for papers is now open for Worldwide Virtual Conference - Library 2.012 to be held 3-5 October 2012.
  http://www.library20.com/page/call-for-proposals-2012


• Encourage your library members to enter for a share in $40,000 of prizes in the Read This! 2012 Creative Reading Prize. Entries close 31 May 2012.
  http://readthis2012.com/


• The call for presentations for the Mylanguage Conference 2012 to be held at the State Library of Queensland on 6-9 August 2012 has been extended to 18 May 2012.
  http://www.myLanguage.gov.au/conference.html


• The National Library of Australia has announced plans to implement RDA in the first quarter of 2013.
  http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/how-is-libraries-australia-planning-to-implement-rda/


• The Trove Application Programming Interface (API) has been released to enable libraries to include Trove records on their website.
  http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api


• Download the National Year of Reading flyers and fact sheets from the NYR wiki.
  http://love2read2012.wikispaces.com/


• Sue Roberts, State Library of Victoria CEO and State Librarian has recorded a message outlining her vision for her new role.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQsi_wocTS4

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Spanish Railways have joined with publishers to provide ebook access to train travelers.
  http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/04/19/spanish-railway-launches-library-train/


• US libraries continue their campaign to highlight the current limitations facing libraries wishing to supply ebooks to members.
  http://ebooksforlibraries.com/


• The IFLA e-lending background paper is available for download.
  http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-releases-background-paper-on-e-lending


• The Libraries for Timor Leste website has been updated.
  http://librariesfortimorleste.org.au/

PROFESSIONAL READING

• The ALIA Board has endorsed the National RFID Data Profile. The aim of the National Profile is to provide a profile for use by all Australian libraries based on ISO 28560 Parts One & Two to enhance interoperability beyond that offered currently by barcodes.
  http://www.alia.org.au/policies/National.RFID.data.profile.pdf


• ALA Techsource brings together a great list of recommended reading from their workshop on Integrating ipads and tablet computers into library services.
  http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2012/03/continuing-the-conversation-integrating-ipads-and-tablet-computers-into-library-service


• The Victorian Ministerial Advisory Council on Public Libraries is calling for submissions on a discussion paper, Tomorrow's Library.
  www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/tomorrows-library


• The IBSA workforce development strategy report for galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records industries is essential reading in preparation for the escan industry consultations to be held in July 2012.
  http://www.ibsa.org.au/Portals/ibsa.org.au/docs/reports/GLARM%20WDS.pdf


• In times of natural disaster the local library becomes an indispensible community centre, making Natural disasters and community resilience: a framework for support important reading for all public library management.
  http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/pubs/papers/03/index.html


• ALIA members are able to freely access the ProQuest database of LIS full text journals.
  http://www.alia.org.au/onlineLISresources/
  
  My top picks for public library articles for this month are:
  
  
  • Bramley-Moore, Glynis. 2012. "Arent they all Librarians? Library Training and Careers Explained." Access 26 (1): 22-26.
  
  
  • Mars, Amy. 2012. "Library Service to the Homeless." Public Libraries, 32-35.
  
  
  • Sidorow, Kerri. 2012. "Measuring their Success: Colocated Library and Community Services." Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 25 (1): 6-11.
  
  

CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS

RAILS8

Discovery: ALIA Biennial 2012 Conference

Public Libraries NSW Conference

AUSLIB

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