Convenor's column

Library and Information Week 2004

Put Library and Information Week 2004 in your diaries for 24-30 May 2004. The theme for LIW2004 is Down and loaded: the right information at the right time, so make the most of it! Plan ahead for your library's activities - how will you remind your clients about the value you give to your organisation or your community? Think about displaying some posters to promote it - these will be available soon. In the meantime, check out the web cards. We will have a great trivia night during Library and Information Week on Wednesday 26 May.

Library and Information Week 2004 trivia night

The ACT Public Library Service and ACTive ALIA invite you to a trivia night to raise funds for library books for East Timor. All money raised will be sent to East Timor for the purchase of library books and literacy materials.

When: Wednesday 26 May at 7:15pm
Where: Belconnen Library, 12 Chandler St Belconnen
Cost: $10. Supper is provided - drinks BYO

Bookings essential - tables of 8 to 10. For more information, ph 02 6205 9000 or library.customerinfo@act.gov.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address).

Forthcoming events

There will be no Friday happy hour in April, as it would clash with Easter and the school and university break.

But there will be one on Friday 14 May from 5:30pm. Come and enjoy the Friday happy hour and music at the Hotel Kurrajong, National Circuit, Barton, while you catch up with people and events. No formal meeting. Enquiries to Jan Gordon, ph 02 6268 8122.

Other forthcoming events will include a talk on the US-Australia free trade agreement - details in the next proACTive.

Can you help with library history?

Marie Sexton is working on a project to provide captions to photos of library events taken by NLA photographers. One important event covered in this project was the Library Association of Australia's 50th anniversary celebrations in September 1987.

Marie knows that the 'LAA 50 committee' made the arrangements, and this committee seems to have been a subcommittee of the ACT branch. She is now looking particularly for lists of the foundation or early members who attended at the committee's invitation.

Margaret Thomson, a Canberra librarian, was perhaps the convener - she certainly reported on the arrangements to the LAA General Council in April 1987. Marie is looking at ALIA and LAA records in the National Library of Australia and also in the ACT Heritage Library, which holds six boxes of records.

Can you help Marie to contact Margaret Thomson, or to identify foundation or early members who attended these LAA 50th anniversary celebrations? If so, please e-mail Marie at msexton@netspeed.com.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address) or call her on ph 02 6247 7795.

Hope to see you at the Library Week Trivia night!

Helen Roberts
Convenor, ACTive ALIA

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