What’s happening at National Office this weekend
Hello everyone, it has taken me awhile to get back into blogging. I’ll now try and get back ‘into the swing’ of it again.
This weekend is a big one at ALIA National Office. We are conducting a major upgrade of our computer servers and Microsoft software. Our email system is getting a major overhaul so do bear with us. Members are asked to limit their email contact with the ALIA staff this weekend, but we should all be back on deck by Monday afternoon 24th September 2007. See our notifications on the website and our messages to listowners etc.
The ALIA IT guys will be plied with pizza, diet coke and coffee as they sit by their noisy servers and pour over the code and conduct test after test. All the ALIA staff are excited with the anticipation of a more robust system to keep us going into the future !!
Staff are also volunteering this Saturday to pack the thousands of items into Summer Reading Club packs for 2007. This is the first year that ALIA has organised SRC and libraries around the country will be joining in from 1 December 2007 to 31 January 2008. We will be packaging up poster, wristbands, stickers and bookmarks for all the libraries involved. Find out more information at http://www.alia.org.au/src . The new website will be located at www.summerreadingclub.org.au and will be launched soon.
Sue Hutley
ALIA Executive Director