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ALIA Top EndInterface February 2005Newsletter of ALIA Top EndWelcome to the first issue for 2005 of the ALIA Top End newsletter. We are hoping to produce it bi-annually. If you would like to contribute to the newsletter please e-mail barbara.coat@cdu.edu.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address). ALIA Top End is the group that covers all of the Northern Territory with a focus on the Top End. Provides professional development activities, supports isolated and remote members to attend local professional development activities and relevant interstate and international professional activities. Promotes excellence in delivery of library and information services. Join our e-list!aliaNT is the ALIAnet e-list affiliated with the ALIA Top End group. Subscribe to aliaNT by heading to the e-list and entering your e-mail address and a password. You'll be sent an e-mail asking you to confirm your subscription. Just follow the instructions and you'll be communicating with the rest of the group's members in no time at all. ALIA Top End surveyThe ALIA Top End committee is planning a program of activities and would like your input for 2005. Please give us your comments on the activities you would like to see in 2005 giving specific examples wherever possible. Please note that this survey targets everyone working in libraries - not just ALIA members. Any other suggestions welcome! Please take the time to complete our survey so that we can provide a relevant service to you! Meeting calendar 2005After the first meeting on 23 February, monthly meetings will be held on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Venues to be confirmed.
ALIA Top End meetings for 2005 2005 ALIA Top End executive committeeIf you would like to make suggestions regarding activities for ALIA Top End please contact the committee. Committee members
Jayshree Mamtora is the campus librarian at the Palmerston campus of Charles Darwin University, a position she has held since 2002. Jayshree started her professional career at the University of London and has since worked in libraries in the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Fiji. Jayshree has been an active member of library associations, and held a number of positions in the Fiji Library Association including that of president and vice-president. She was convenor of the inaugural ALIA Top End Symposium in 2003 and was on the organising committee of the 2004 Symposium.
Linda Marchesani is the heritage services manager at Northern Territory Library. Linda was secretary of the ALIA Central Victorian Group in 1996 prior to moving to the territory. She has worked NT libraries both in Tennant Creek and Darwin for the past seven years. She was secretary of ALIA Top End group for three years and was on the organising committee of the first ALIA Top End Symposium in 2003.
Di Sinclair will take up the position of secretary for ALIA Top End when she returns from holidaying in Vietnam. Di Sinclair has managed the Department of Infrastructure Planning and Environment (DIPE) information resource centre (formerly natural resources and environment library) for the past two years and in February 2005 returns to her reference librarian position at Northern Territory Library.
Dianne came late to libraries and graduated with her Diploma in Library and Information Studies from NTU in 2001. She worked at Taminmin Community Library for four and a half years before leaving and going to work with library and information access - access services (previously off-campus library services) at CDU in December 2001. During that time she also worked with the libraries studies school in an administrative role. Dianne recently left her position at CDU to return to work at Taminmin Community Library. Dianne became treasurer for ALIA Top End in mid 2002. She was a member of the organising committee for the 2nd ALIA Top End Symposium 2004 and is looking forward to another fantastic year for ALIA Top End in 2005. Group support officer: Melanie Bennett e-mail: melanie.bennett@latis.net.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address) Melanie Bennett completed her library technician qualifications in 1992. She has worked at Taminmin and Nhulunbuy Community Library as the school-based library technician. Recently she has been employed at Sanderson and Dripstone High School.
Anastasia has a Bachelor of Arts (Information Management/Librarianship) majoring in psychology, a Graduate Diploma of Management and is currently undertaking masters-level studies in information technology. She is the Australian Library and Information Association's Local Liaison Officer for Northern Territory, Australian Computer Society Young IT Board Director and lecturer on information management at Charles Darwin University. Ana's currently managing the implementation of TRIM as an electronic document management system for Power Water Corporation.
Moving up moving onStephen Barnett has taken up the role of liaison and information literacy co-ordinator at Charles Darwin University (CDU) in October 2004 after a long career in TAFE libraries in South Australia. Barbara Coat has joined the liaison librarian team at CDU in November 2004 after 16 years in law firm and government (ASIC) library management in South Australia. Heather Filmer has joined as a library technician the supreme court library in October 2004 after many years in law firm libraries in South Australia. Vanessa Fleming joined the health libraries as collection development librarian in July 2004 after having spent a number of years with NTLIS. Trudi Maly has taken on the role of manager parliamentary library service from July 2004 after four years at CDU in a number of roles including liaison and information literacy co-ordinator. Sarah Manning has finished her traineeship with NTLIS and moved to Tennant Creek to take up the position of manager of Tennant Creek Public Library. Trish Pinni is on contract until June 2005 as Northern Territory Police Fire and Emergency Services (NTPFES) librarian while Deidre Hurwood is on long-service leave. Robyn Tranthem is now working as reference and outreach librarian with the Darwin Health Library from August 2004 after two years at the CDU in the liaison team. Gill Thompson has commenced at Territory Health Services following Sally Bailey's retirement. Jennifer White joined the CDU liaison team in May 2004 after managing the Karama Public Library for the previous year and acting manager Northern Territory Library Reference Services for around six months and in other roles there for over five years. Dianne Wilcox has taken up a position at Taminmin Community Library after a number of years in access services at Charles Darwin University Library. In 2004 almost half the staff of Northern Territory Library were either newly-recruited, promoted, achieved permanency or returned to their positions. These included: Ann Ritchie assistant director, Robin Hempel manager reference services, Brian Flanagan reference librarian, Linda Marchesani manager heritage services, Kira Paznikov-Barry heritage librarian, Danielle Chisholm heritage technician, Trudi Maly manager PLS (noted below) replaced Marilyn Hawthorne who became online resources librarian, Di Sinclair returns to NTL as the electronic resources librarian (from DIPE), Ken Minogue has returned to document delivery services (from former planning and development library).
CDU library learning precinctThere are exciting developments at the CDU library at the Casuarina campus!
The learning precinct is a technologically enabled 'one-stop shop' providing access to a range of teaching, learning and research resources and assistance for clients needing help with research, technology, or learning help. The learning precinct will bring library information and computing support together in one area to provide clients with ready access to staff, computers, and information resources, specifically aimed at the learning and research needs of undergraduate clients.
The learning precinct is an initiative of the CDU library at Casuarina campus to redevelop the building into an exciting, technology enabled, flexible learning space with a mix of electronic and physical resources available to clients as well as a range of support staff on hand. The ground floor of the existing library has been redesigned with modern furniture, colours and lighting and the latest in technology which includes wireless networking of the whole building. The learning precinct brings library information, resources and computing support together in one area to provide clients with ready access to staff, computers, and information resources, specifically aimed at the learning and research needs of undergraduate clients.
The learning precinct is to be opened for first semester 2005. Anne Wilson assistant director, library and information access, CDU library Conference reportsInternational Web Archiving Conference 9-11 November 2004, National Library of Australia This was an international conference and it was a wonderful experience to meet so many people from different nations all focused on web archiving. The National Library of Australia received compliments from all over the world for taking the initiative to host such an event and for their own endeavours to advance web archiving to date. Professor Malcolm Gillies, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Australian National University spoke of what a pity it would be to lose electronic information simply because we hadn't found a method for preserving it. He explained that like other formats before it, the electronic media, is as fragile if not more so than most others are. He raised the issue of where do we draw the boundaries to stop and start archiving, for example who is archiving SMS and who archived thermal faxes. Other presenters looked at specific issues that need to be addressed by archiving and preservation programs. Stephen Abrams (digital library program manager, Harvard University) spoke on the role of file format registers and work being undertaken in this area including projects like: PRONOM, GDFR and FRED. Various organisations and nations are selecting, providing access to and managing archived web resources in different ways. For example:
Copies of presentations will be made available on the conference website if provided by speakers. Linda Marchesani manager, heritage services, Northern Territory Library
Colloquium libraries and indigenous knowledgeA national forum for libraries, archives and information services Colloquium - from the Latin, 'to converse'. 9-10 December 2004, State Library of NSW On 9 and 10 December 2004 the State Library of NSW hosted the colloquium on libraries and indigenous knowledge: a national forum for libraries, archives and information services. The colloquium was attended by librarians, archivists, lawyers, researchers, writers and representatives of indigenous communities from all around Australia as well as New Zealand. In opening the colloquium Dagmar Schmidmaier, state librarian of NSW, characterised it as contributing to a conversation that is both necessary and urgent. Those of us attending would also have described the conversation we were fortunate enough to be part of as complex and fascinating. Topics included the value of archives and libraries to indigenous knowledge, the creation of indigenous knowledge centres in communities, and intellectual property rights in relation to indigenous knowledge. Many of the presenters taking part in the colloquium underlined the fact that maintaining indigenous knowledge is essential for the continuation of indigenous culture, and discussed how indigenous information in libraries and archives could be used to this end. As Martin Nakata of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning and Sydney University of Technology stated, indigenous knowledge is not singing and dancing. It is the epistemological configuration of who Indigenous people are. Indigenous people are searching for the residues of the traditional language to return to who they are. It was also pointed out that indigenous knowledge has value not just for indigenous people but for everyone. As Professor Marcia Langton of the University of Melbourne stated, traditional knowledge has been and is fundamental to human survival, and the loss of traditional knowledge has many complex ramifications. For example, there is an inextricable link between biological and cultural diversity. Countries with great biological diversity are also those with multiple languages. With the loss of cultural diversity, biological diversity also diminishes. Archives and libraries are holders of indigenous knowledge and must consider issues of access, control and future utility. It was acknowledged that the Indigenous heritage of this country is at the forefront of our changing landscape and should be the core business of the library and information sector. The colloquium ended with the acknowledgement that we were indeed at the beginning of an important conversation, a conversation that needs to continue. Jennifer White Liaison librarian - CDU library Online On Tour in DarwinOnline On Tour, an initiative of the Information Online Group of the Australian Library and Information Association, aims to bring professional development relating to the management and access to information in an online environment to library workers in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia. Power Searching with the Pros
Mary Ellen Bates and Chris Sherman How much time can you spare for finding rubbish? What could the future be for you if you are able to search for information as skillfully and as quickly as the top information professionals can? What do you need to be 'ahead of the game'? This one day event brings together two of the top professional searchers in the world to share with you their secrets of how you, too, can be super searchers. What is Web Search Pacific? Web Search Pacific is a concept developed by Mary Ellen Bates of Bates Information Service, Denver, Chris Sherman of Searchwise, Denver, and Elizabeth Swan of Information Edge, Sydney in 2003 to facilitate access to high quality training for professionals on how to exploit the web to obtain information you can reply upon, and to learn when to go beyond the web. Since then many librarians throughout Australia and New Zealand have responded very positively to the training. Who should attend? Everyone who needs good quality information as part of their work should attend this workshop. Researchers, scientists, bankers, engineers, lecturers, IT professionals, journalists, lawyers, PR consultants, architects, police, CI specialists, intelligence officers, librarians, advertisers, strategic planners and ... you? What will you learn from Online On Tour in Darwin?
What will Power Searching with the Pros cover? 9:00am-10:30am Search engine mechanics - how search engines work, how they find results, the differences between the major engines and some of the power tools available. 10:30am-11:00am Morning tea. 11:00am-1:00pm The invisible web - what is it, where is it and strategies and tactics for finding the web's vast, hidden, high quality information resources. 1:00pm-2:00pm Luncheon. 2:00pm-3:30pm Misinformation on the web - how to spot fraud and deception on the web, and how to review web sites for authenticity. 3:30pm-4:00pm Afternoon tea. 4:00pm-5:00pm Free or fee? Decision points for when to pay for information - a critical comparison of web-based vs. traditional online services. Who are the presenters? Mary Ellen Bates is the owner of Bates Information Services in Boulder, Colorado, providing business research to business professionals, and consulting services to the information industry. Mary Ellen worked in specialised libraries for over ten years before starting her own business in 1991. She has been an online searcher since the late 1970s. Bates is a frequent writer and popular international speaker on the information industry. She has keynoted at conferences around the world. She is the author of six books, including Building and running a successful research business, Super searchers cover the world, Mining for gold on the internet, Researching online for dummies, Super searchers do business, and The online deskbook. More information can be found at www.BatesInfo.com. Chris Sherman is president of a Colorado-based web consulting firm called Searchwise, and editor of SearchDay, a daily newsletter from SearchEngineWatch.com. He is a regular contributor to Information Today, Online, EContent and other information industry journals. Chris is a frequent presenter at information industry conferences and workshops, and is a Web Search University faculty member. He is the coauthor (with Gary Price) of The invisible web: uncovering information sources search engines can't see from CyberAge Books and his new book Google power: unleash the full potential will be published by McGraw Hill Osborne in February 2005. Chris' clients have included International Data Corporation, Accenture, Motorola, LeviStrauss, Ortho Biotech, Porsche, Caltex, United Technologies, and the Scripps Clinic. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com. More information can be found at www.searchwise.net. What delegates have said about Power Searching with the Pros 'Both speakers were fantastic - entertaining and informative. Very valuable information.' 'Best value for money seminar I've attended in a long time.' 'Information packed, presented very professionally and clearly.' 'Inspiring and very friendly - thank you!' '...the kinds of insights only possible when someone has great depth and breadth of knowledge of an industry.'
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Convenor: Jayshree Mamtora 
Deputy convenor: Linda Marchesani 
Secretary: Di Sinclair 
Treasurer: Dianne Wilcox 
ALIA local liaison officer: Anastasia Govan 
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