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Number 233: April 2003

Events for March and beyond

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Wednesday 9 April ACTive ALIA at 5:30pm in the Fourth Floor Conference Room NLA. Discuss how we will operate this year and what you want to do: topics, issues, speakers, frequency of meetings, links and partnerships - Details in article above. Contact Helen Roberts, Convener ACTive ALIA, ph 02 6125 4068, helen.roberts@anu.edu.au.

Wednesday 9 April URLs ...are hosting a presentation by Mandy Lupton (Centre for Educational Development and Academic Methods, ANU), for everyone interested in how students go about writing essays and the implications of this for libraries. At 4:30pm sharp, in the McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU. All welcome. Details in article above. Inquiries: Nancy Clarke, URLs Secretary, ph 02 6209 1117, or n.clarke@signadou.acu.edu.au.

Monday 14 April PEARLS. 2:30pm. BOOKPLATE at National Library (new venue). Come along and join us for coffee, cake and conversation. All those with library connections who have retired and those about to retire are welcome.

Wednesday 30 April APSIG invites you to meet Dr Nancy Lane for lunch. Details in article above. Thursday, 8 May. Library Technicians and others. 7:00pm for 7:30pm at the Hellenic Club, Phillip. For all those who studied, taught or had an interest in the Library Studies Courses at the Canberra TAFE or CIT - celebrate 25 years of Library Studies in the ACT! Cost will be $30.00 per person for a three course meal and tea or coffee. Partners and colleagues welcome. Further information from Ursula Macdermott, ph 02 6262 1448 umacdermott@nla.gov.au, or Marion Boyd, ph 02 6270 6912, mboyd@hcourt.gov.au.

Tuesday 13 May ACT Techs will celebrate Library Technicians Day with breakfast at the Crown Plaza, 7:30am. All ALIA members will be welcome! Further details from Beth at beth.clary@radford.act.edu.au or Lynn at lynn.bale@ea.gov.au.

Wednesday, 14 May ACTive ALIA. You are warmly invited to attend a talk International war for the control of information by Miranda Lee, Executive Officer for the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) and Copyright Adviser (Law and Policy) for the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (ALCC), at 5:30pm in the 4th Floor Conference Room, NLA. Contact Judy Brooker on ph 02 6230 2266 or judith.brooker@alianet.alia.org.au.

Thursday 15 May ALIA AGM. 6:00pm in the ALIA National Office, 9-11 Napier Close, Deakin.

Friday 16 May Meeting ...to formalise the proposed ACT, Southern NSW and Riverina Children's and Young Adult ALIA Interest Group, 6:00pm at Caph's Restaurant and Coffee Lounge, Franklin Street, Manuka. Please join us for a meal or just coffee - RSVP to Judy Brooker by 14 May, ph 02 6230 2266, judith.brooker@alianet.alia.org.au.

... and later in the year

28-31 October 2003 8th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference Breaking barriers: reaching users in a digital world. The conference aims to encompass new ways to deliver services to users as well as ways to make our operations more efficient. To be held at NLA Canberra. For more details, please see the website at http://www.nla.gov.au/ilds/.