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ACTive ALIAproACTiveNumber 242: March 2004[Workshop on members' engagement and participation in ALIA | New Librarians' Symposium 2.0 | AANRO redevelopment | East Timor libraries benefit | AIHS visit | Correction | Wanted!] Workshop on members' engagement and participation in ALIAWednesday, 31 March, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Conference Room, ALIA House, 9-11 Napier Close, Deakin. Do you have ideas about how members can be more involved and participate more in ALIA? Would you like to contribute to the current review of the engagement and participation by members in the Association? This is your opportunity to take part in a workshop to explore how members' involvement in the Association could be enhanced and the value and significance of groups to members and the Association. We are looking for about 12 members from the ACT region to take part in a workshop to explore these issues (refreshments will be provided). Ideally, we would like to have a cross-section of members in the workshop - long-standing and new members, personal members and those representing institutional members, members who are or have been actively involved in ALIA groups and those who are not. If you are interested in taking part, please e-mail Susan Magnay by Monday 22 March, saying a little about yourself and your membership of ALIA: how long you have been a member and your involvement or otherwise with ALIA groups. This will help us to ensure a mix of members in the workshop, especially if we receive more expressions of interest than there are places in the workshop. Similar workshops are to be held around the country. They are part of a wide-ranging and multi-stranded review of members' engagement and participation, focusing on the Association's group structure. As part of the review, all ALIA groups were invited to make submissions and a survey of a random sample of members has been conducted. For more details about the purposes, scope and methodology of the review please see the article in the November 2003 issue of inCite.
Susan Magnay New Librarians' Symposium 2.0Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, 3-4 December 2004 The 2nd New Librarians' Symposium will be held in Adelaide on 3-4 December, in the newly refurbished Hilton Hotel. Interstate delegates will be right in the heart of the city. Local delegates will find easy parking around Victoria Square and enjoy the opportunity to meet new librarians from across the country. The symposium theme is 'Beyond the Stereotype!', examining the many ways libraries and librarians are changing and evolving: what we do, how we do it, the services we offer, the way we market ourselves - all the issues that impact upon new professionals. The program has three streams:
Register your interest in attending NLS2.0 through our website to ensure you receive regular e-mail updates as information is released. We will be calling for papers very soon, and we are very interested in hearing from new or recent graduates. So if you have an idea for a paper, take the first step and contact the symposium committee. Details will be announced on the symposium website. There will be regular updates about NLS2.0 in proACTive and inCite throughout 2004, and watch the website to find out more details about the great program we have planned!
Kristel Petrou AANRO redevelopmentReaders of proACTive may be interested to learn of the redevelopment of ANRO (Agriculture and Natural Resources Online). Currently, three interlinked databases are under the ANRO umbrella - ARRIP (Australian Rural Research in Progress), ABOA (Australian Bibliography of Agriculture) and Streamline with information on natural resource management. Late last year Infoscan Pty Ltd, a local company well-known in the information industry, won the contract to re-engineer the new AANRO (Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online). AANRO will be a decision support system and single access point for Australian research and extension information on agriculture and natural resource management, with a number of key features:
This powerful innovation will greatly extend the scope of user's searches and provide easy access to up-to-date and transient information. AANRO content will be available as a web-based service. Separate information products will continue to be available on INFORMIT Online to subscribers. Sherrey Quinn of Libraries Alive Pty Ltd is working with the Steering Committee and Infoscan to develop the new content policy and is keen to obtain the views of users of the current ABOA, ARRIP and Streamline databases and the ANRO service. Please contact her by phone on 02 6257 9177 or sherrey.quinn@alianet.alia.org.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address)if you wish to comment or discuss AANRO content. Information about the development of AANRO may be found at http://www.aanro.net/ ; it will be launched in June 2004. Sherrey Quinn East Timor libraries benefitThursday, 11 March, 6:00pm The Asia Bookroom and the Friends of the National University Library of East Timor invite you to an awareness and fundraising night in the Asia Bookroom, Weedon Close, Belconnen. James Dunn, East Timor expert and noted author of East Timor A Rough Passage to Independence and Jill Haynes, recently returned from working on the ground with the UNTL Library, will talk about Timor today and the challenges Timor's developing libraries face. It's sure to be an informative and interesting evening. What are the issues, what is needed and what can be done? Come along and find out! All welcome. Refreshments will be served. Signed copies of James Dunn's book will be available. RSVPs much appreciated: books@asiabookroom.com, ph 02 6251 5191. AIHS visitThis is early notice for your diary of an APSIG-arranged visit to the Australian International Hotel School (AIHS), Bligh Street, Barton, on Wednesday, 26 May, 12:30pm-1:30pm. We meet at 12:30pm in the front foyer of this grand heritage building, formerly the Hotel Kurrajong and for over forty years home in Canberra to PM Ben Chifley and many other parliamentarians. We will go behind the scenes to see the school in operation, then enjoy coffee and freshly-made biscuits before we depart. The AIHS librarian, Karen York, will host the visit and give us a fresh insight into this international venture. The Asia Bookroom, Belconnen, has kindly given a book token for $50.00 to APSIG, as a prize to be drawn towards the end of the tour. Gold-coin donation. No bookings are required. Enquiries to Karen York at karen.york@aihs.edu.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address). CorrectionThe article on the Heritage Library in the February proACTive was wrongly attributed to Judith Brooker. In fact it was written by Claire Cruickshank, whose contact details are claire.cruickshank@act.gov.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address) ph 02 6207 5163. Wanted!Some enthusiastic committee members for ACTive ALIA. This is your chance to do something really vital for your professional association in the Canberra region.
Please send expressions of interest to Sherrey Quinn |
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