Library and Information Week and the Media
Happy Library and Information Week 2008 ! There have been happy celebrations and events around the country at all types of libraries. ALIA Board members and myself have also been talking to the media this week, and especially today following the Australian Bureau of Statistics Media Release on Australian Libraries Facts and Figures. ALIA’s media releases, the combined ALIA/ASLA media release about literacy, and events such as National Simultaneous Storytime have all created positive and useful stories to ‘feed’ the media. Please email or fax us with copies of your local LIW/NSS media results. We are also looking forward to your photos and stories for inCite on how you celebrated.
When the interview I was doing with the local ACT ABC Radio began this afternoon, the presenter commented that when she goes into a library there are always lots of different types of people, from all walks of life, doing lots of different things in the library and the library providing such a range of services and resources. I replied to her, “I guess that’s why we chose the theme for this years library week to be : Libraries are for everyone! ” .