ALIA NEWS

• ALIA Biennial Conference registrations close soon
• ALIA New Graduates Advisory Committee seeks new members
• ALIA membership renews due now
• ALIA PD Scheme

• ALIA training - Managing challenging clients
• ALIA annual report online
• Write for ALIA

• RAILS8
• Discovery: ALIA Biennial 2012 Conference
• Public Libraries NSW Conference
• Unmesh Unconference

ALIA NEWS

ALIA Biennial Conference registrations close soon

ALIA New Graduates Advisory Committee seeks new members

ALIA membership renews due now

ALIA PD Scheme

ALIA REMINDERS

ALIA training - Managing challenging clients

ALIA annual report online

Write for ALIA

OTHER NEWS

• The Mylanguage Conference 2012 partnership will sponsor one public librarian from each partner state and territory to attend the conference.
  http://www.myLanguage.gov.au/conference.html


• The National Year of Reading Public Library App is available. Users can use the app to locate their nearest public library.
  http://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/love2read/id501231680?mt=8


• Picture Australia has now been integrated into NLA's TROVE and is no longer accessible via Libraries Australia.
  http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture


• The Australian Bureau of Statistics Yearbook 2012 has highlighted the National Year of Reading and the important role of public libraries in helping to promote reading.
  http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/1301.0~2012~Main%20Features~National%20Year%20of%20Reading%202012~77


• Celebrating the achievements of organisations, businesses and individuals that have made significant contributions to the development and use of the Internet in Australia and New Zealand the 2012 Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards are now open for nominations.
  http://www.internetawards.org.au/


• Entries for the Margery C Ramsay Scholarship, valued at $30,000, are now open to Victorian public library staff.
  http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/infonet/.


• Notes from the Value of Libraries seminar held in Canberra in May 2012 can be found on the ALIA Active blog.
  http://proactiveblog.blogspot.com.au/


• The Public Library Membership Drive was launched at by Minister of the Arts, Simon Crean, at the Queanbayan City Library on 21 May 2012.
  http://www.minister.regional.gov.au/sc/speeches/2012/CS18.aspx or http://www.love2read.org.au/libraries.cfm

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Released by the Centre for Policy Development is, Big Society and Australia: How the UK Government is dismantling the state and what it means for Australia.
  http://cpd.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/cpd_big_society-FINAL-WEB-VERSION.pdf


• Breakfast TV news reporters in New Zealand asked locals the perennial question "Are libraries still relevant in the 21st century?"
  http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/libraries-still-relevant-video-4888886

PROFESSIONAL READING

• Child Family Community Australia has released a paper Parental involvement on preventing and responding to cyberbullying.
  http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/pubs/papers/04/cfca04.pdf


• NASL has released its four year plan Re-imagining libraries 2012-16.
  http://www.nsla.org.au/reimagining-libraries


• 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:
  
  
  • Brynko, Barbara. 2012. "Libraries: Coping with Digital Squeeze." Information Today 29 (4): 1-36.
  
  
  • Davidson, Alison. 2012. "Build it and they Will Come: Chatswood Library on the Concourse, Nsw." Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 25 (2): 56-60.
  
  
  • Sloan, Tom. 2012. "What Makes an Award-Winning Public Library Successful?" Public Libraries, 30-31,47.
  
  

CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS

RAILS8

Discovery: ALIA Biennial 2012 Conference

Public Libraries NSW Conference

Unmesh Unconference

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