ALIA Board Blog

During the week a number of submission papers were loaded up onto the ALIA Education and Workforce Summit website.  They are good reading and our thanks to all of the individuals, groups and organisations that have already contributed.  Some late papers will also be added next week.

Invitations have gone out to all Australian LIS educational institutions, major representative Associations (all the usual acronyms - NSLA, CAUL, ASLA, ALLA ….etc)  as well as sector groups of ALIA.  We only have a room that can take 50-55 people and we are pretty much now at capacity.   Julie Sloan has been selected as the facilitator for the summit day which is Friday 28th March 2008.  The Summit is an initiative of the ALIA Education and PD Standing Committee. 

So what if you are not on the invitation list ?  If you work in one of the mentioned representative groups or are part of these other Associations, check out the Submissions Page and see what has already been said.  Find out who your nominee is and if you want to make your own comments, I suggest you direct them to your representative, or send a late submission for the website via email.  You can also attend a Pre-Summit meeting on the night of 27th March at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne from 6pm to 7.30pm, but RSVP’s are required - again, check out all the details on the Summit website.

So what will the Summit discuss?  The background is available from the Summit website, and a further detailed program will be provided to participants and on the Summit website next week.  If you attended a National Advisory Congress meeting in 2007 you would have spoken about the issues with Board Directors which have been fed into the summit process, reports back will be conducted at this year’s NAC meetings around the country in July 2008 [details here ].

 Attention Bloggers :  it seems that some of our colleagues may have missed information about the Education and Workforce Summit  - why not add a note and a link from your blog to catch those that may not be on aliaNEWS, read inCite or watch this blog.  Thanks for helping get the last minute word out !  Thanks,     Sue Hutley, ALIA Executive Director

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