The Public Libraries Summit tomorrow pulls together a number of different threads that we’ve been working on over the last few months.  There will be an important announcement about Public Library Standards; the first outing for the Little Book of Public Libraries, and the national launch of the Public Library Ambassadors campaign.  In advance of the latter, ALIA has assisted local library services with a few pilot projects and you can see the first ambassadors on our new Flickr site - www.flickr.com/photos/aliapubliclibraries.  We’re delighted to have such a good spread of personalities, across three states, but this is only the start.  Why not use the toolkit at http://www.alia.org.au/governance/committees/public.libraries/summit09/public.library.ambassadors.html to recruit your own library ambassador and start generating those news headlines for your library service?

Jan Richards

ALIA President