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Number 227: September 2002

Events for August and beyond

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Monday 2 September. URLs. 12:30pm. Monthly meeting of URLs group in the ACT at University House (in the cellar eating area) at ANU. All welcome. Inquiries: Nancy Clarke, secretary URLs, ph 02 6209 1117, n.clarke@signadou.acu.edu.au.
Saturday 7 September. 9:00am-4:30pm. Australian Society of Indexers workshop on Basics of Electronic Indexing and MeSH: the use of a Hierarchical Thesaurus. Coombs Building, ANU. Cost $160.00 for full day, $90.00 for half day. Contact: Lynn Farkas, ph 02 6286 4818, lfarkas@pcug.org.au.
Wednesday 11 September. ACTive ALIA monthly meeting. Georgina Dale, who has joined the ALIA office in the new position of member liaison officer, will speak on what she will do for groups and members. All welcome. 4th floor Conference Room, NLA, 5:30pm. Contact: Judy Brooker, ph 02 6230 2266, judith.brooker@alianet.alia.org.au.
Thursday 12 September. Librarians libations Come and network with your friendly ACT Specials on from 5:30pm in Olims at Ainslie (next month on 10 October in the Yacht Club, then on 7 November in the Kurrajong). Contact: Julie Philips, ph 02 6208 5112, jphilips@nma.gov.au.
Tuesday 17 September. APSIG 5:00pm. Visit to St Marks Theological Library. The Librarian, Deveni Temu, will show us the Pacific collection and St Marks. Refreshments. RSVP - tdemu@csu.edu.au.
Wednesday 18 September. ACT Library Technicians. 5:30pm Join us for a tour of the Noel Butlin Archives on Mills Road ANU Campus. Dinner afterwards if you are interested. Please RSVP as we need to know numbers. Phone Beth Clary at 02 6162 6225, or beth.clary@radford.act.edu.au.
Wednesday 25 September. URLs Professor Malcolm Gillies, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the Australian National University will speak on 'Research Priorities and Research Libraries' at the Menzies Library ANU at 12:30pm. All welcome. Inquiries: Nancy Clarke, secretary URLs, ph 02 6209 1117, n.clarke@signadou.acu.edu.au
Tuesday 29 October APSIG Travellers Tales: 12:30pm-1:30pm, in the Fourth Floor Conference Room, NLA. Speakers: Ewan Maidment on the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau; George Miller on Flores, E. Indonesia; plus one other. Refreshments. All welcome. Contact: msexton57@hotmail.com.

ACTive ALIA meetings in 2002
Our meeting dates to the end of 2002 will be as follows:

11 September
9 October
13 November
11 December

Meetings are held in the 4th Floor conference room of the NLA, unless otherwise notified, commencing at 5:30pm with a little good fellowship over some nice wine and nibbles.

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