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August 2008

In this aliaPUBNEWS broadcast:

Publications
Significance 2.0; Multicultural Services Standard 2008

News from ALIA
inCite themes for October & November 2008; ALIA Biennial Conference 2010/2012; Aurora Leadership Institute 2009 - ALIA Scholarship; ALIA survey of internet access in public libraries 2008; ALIA Fellowship - Christine Mackenzie; Cyber-Safety Videos now available; ALIA Fellowship - Roxanne Missingham; Broadband for Seniors

Awards and Scholarships
ALIA members win Churchill Fellowships; State Library of New South Wales Fellowships 2008/09

National
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program; Increased Spending on Books; Libraries Australia Survey

Web Resources
What is Web 3.0?; Interesting Lists; Mobile Catalogue

International
Library Fines; Library sets challenge for overdue books; Food for Fines; Slow economy fuels surge in library visits

Conferences
QPLA Annual Conference 2008, Future Thinking - Future Proofing; ALIA Information Online Conference 2009; NLS4 earlybird registration closes – 5th September 2008; ALIA Tasmania Conference - Growing Your Career; 4th ALIA New Librarians Symposium

Believe it or Not!
Librarian writes tell-all book, gets fired

Policy and advocacy
Librarians fight privacy legislation

Publications

Significance 2.0
The Collections Council of Australia is producing a second edition of the publication Significance: A guide to assessing the significance of cultural heritage objects and collections http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/sector_info_item/5 (2001). The book was well received by museums and galleries both in Australia and overseas and its significance assessment methodology has been effectively used by collecting organisations to determine priorities for their collections. The second edition, titled Significance 2.0, is intended to incorporate refinements in the methodology, to extend its relevance from museums and galleries to archives and libraries, and to update references. Significance 2.0 will be available in print and online publication forms in December 2008. In April, a Significance 2.0 workshop was held to help guide revision of the book. A number of the papers presented at the Workshop are now available for viewing on the Collections Council’s website by visiting: http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=563

Multicultural Services Standard 2008
The State Library of Queensland has published a new Multicultural Services Standard. A copy of the standard is available from:
http://tinyurl.com/6bs6qy

News from ALIA

inCite themes for October & November 2008
Contribute to your member magazine! October's feature topic is Eco-services, ergonomics and OHS. Contributions on this theme or on other issues relating to library and information services are welcome. High resolution images are also encouraged. Send your articles by 1 September to incite@alia.org.au The theme for November is ‘Library buildings (including RAIA awards)’. Send your articles by 2 October to to incite@alia.org.au
http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/

ALIA Biennial Conference 2010/2012
The ALIA Biennial Conference will not be held in 2010 as Australia will host the World Library and Information Congress 76th IFLA General Conference and Council in Brisbane. ALIA invites all of its members to join us and 4,000 other professional colleagues from around the world, for a week of networking and professional development. ALIA will be calling for Expressions of Interests from ALIA groups in early 2009 for the opportunity to host the 2012 ALIA Biennial Conference.
http://www.alia.org.au/ifla2010/

Aurora Leadership Institute 2009 - ALIA Scholarship
Applications for the 2009 Aurora Institute will open Monday 15th September and close Friday 17th October 2008. Information about the ALIA Aurora Scholarship is also available.
http://www.alia.org.au/~aurora

ALIA survey of internet access in public libraries 2008
ALIA thanks the many public libraries who completed the survey. We are currently analysing the data and we will publicise the report here in aliaPUBNEWS and aliaNEWS when it is completed.

ALIA Fellowship - Christine Mackenzie
The ALIA Board of Directors is delighted to announce that Christine Mackenzie has been awarded the distinction of an ALIA Fellowship. The Fellowship will be conferred at the ALIA 2008 Biennial Conference in Alice Springs. Christine has been an active ALIA member for over 20 years. She has served as ALIA President and Vice-president, and has had a commitment over several years to the ALIA Online Content and Regulation Advisory Committee and Public Libraries Advisory Committee. Her international representative work has contributed to a positive reputation for Australian libraries overseas. Christine is currently a member of the IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Section (MLS) Standing Committee, and was a former member of a select group of international public librarians on the Bertelsmann Foundation's International Network of Public Libraries.
http://www.alia.org.au/awards/fellowships/

Cyber-Safety Videos now available
Videos now available as part of cyber-safety information pack. The cyber-safety page on the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) website now includes four downloadable videos designed to assist library staff in promoting safe and positive internet experiences in public libraries, particularly for children. Visit the NAC website:
http://www.acma.gov.au/libraries

ALIA Fellowship - Roxanne Missingham
The ALIA Board of Directors is delighted to announce that Roxanne Missingham has been awarded the distinction of an ALIA Fellowship. The Fellowship will be conferred at the ALIA 2008 Biennial Conference in Alice Springs. Roxanne has made a distinguished contribution to ALIA and to librarianship over several decades.
http://www.alia.org.au/awards/fellowships/

Broadband for Seniors
ALIA recently coordinated a significant proposal for funding to the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) for $15 million over the years 2008-2011 to deliver broadband and internet training for seniors in identified locations around the nation. Submissions closed 8 August 2008 and ALIA will be advised in the next few weeks as to whether we will be placed into a second round discussion with the Department.
http://tinyurl.com/69vtnc

Awards and Scholarships

ALIA members win Churchill Fellowships
Congratulations to Alan Smith, Director of the State Library of South Australia, for winning the Professor Jean Primrose Whyte Churchill Fellowship to investigate management philosophies and strategies in creating significant cultural change in National Libraries - U.K., France, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland. And congratulations also to Paula Kelly of the State Library of Victoria for winning a Churchill Fellowship to investigate international reading programs that support the development of readers and focus on reading as a vital and creative activity throughout life - U.K., Denmark, Netherlands, Italy.
http://www.churchilltrust.com.au/content.php?id=58

State Library of New South Wales Fellowships 2008/09
Awarded by the Library Council of New South Wales The C. H. Currey Memorial Fellowship ($20,000) The C. H Currey Memorial Fellowship aims to promote the writing of Australian history from original sources including the collections of the State Library of New South Wales. The Nancy Keesing Fellowship ($12,000) The Nancy Keesing Fellowship aims to promote the State Library of New South Wales for research for Australian history and culture. The National and State Libraries Australasia and the Library Council of New South Wales Honorary Fellowships The National and State Libraries Australasia Honorary Fellowship is awarded to the top short listed candidate for the C. H. Currey Memorial Fellowship. The Library Council of New South Wales Honorary Fellowship is awarded to the top short listed candidate for the Nancy Keesing Fellowship. Closing date: 15 September 2008 Enquiries: awards@sl.nsw.gov.au or telephone 02 9273 1467 For application forms and further details, please visit:
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards/

National

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
The National Library of Australia is doing beta testing of their search interface for the national Australian Newspapers project. The Beta service contains 70,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards and additional pages are being added each week. You can find an article or an issue from here: http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Information on the digitisation project is available here:
http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/

Increased Spending on Books
Nielsen BookScan figures show Australians spent $1.25 billion on 63 million books in the past year - an increase of 7.5 per cent on the previous 12-month period. Read more at:
http://tinyurl.com/5u9hls

Libraries Australia Survey
Libraries Australia invites all libraries to participate in the Australian National Bibliographic Database Coverage Survey 2008. The survey is being undertaken to determine the extent of Australian libraries' holdings on the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD). A survey of this kind was last undertaken in 1999 by the Australian Libraries Collections Task Force. This new survey was recommended by the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee in order to discover any important gaps in the coverage or currency of data on the ANBD, and in particular to identify formed or special format collections (e.g. maps, manuscripts, pictures etc) which are held by libraries but not represented on the ANBD. The survey aims to identify: * The extent to which the collections of Australian libraries are recorded in the ANBD; * The types of material most likely / unlikely to be recorded on the ANBD; * The existence of formed or special format collections for published or unpublished materials which are not recorded on the ANBD; * Patterns of contribution / non-contribution to the ANBD amongst particular library types; and * Key factors affecting ANBD contribution Regardless of the size of your collection, your sector or type of library, you are strongly encouraged to participate. It is important that all libraries respond. The greater the range and number of participating libraries the more valuable the results become in discovering otherwise hidden but valuable collections in Australia. The results of the survey will be used by Libraries Australia to develop strategies to improve overall coverage of the ANBD and to strengthen its coverage of formed collections. The survey is available from the following website: http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/cataloguing.html (Please scroll or follow links to the bottom of the web page to get to the survey) The survey closes on 19 September 2008.

Web Resources

What is Web 3.0?
For more information about Web 3.0 go to:
http://internet.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_web_30

Interesting Lists
For those of you interested in lists e.g. 10 lesser known massacres; Top 15 least popular Oscar winning films.... why not visit:
http://listverse.com/

Mobile Catalogue
The State Library of NSW provides a handy access point for those wishing to access their catalogue via their mobile device. The mobile catalogue can be accessed via:
http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/airpac/

International

Library Fines
Library fines could become a thing of the past if a group of librarians get their way. A fiery debate has been raging between librarians, with anti-fine campaigners describing the charges as punitive, old-fashioned and creating a negative impression of libraries. Read more at:
http://tinyurl.com/5lxvn6

Library sets challenge for overdue books
Now here's an interesting idea! "Calling all young Guitar Heroes with overdue library books - outrock overdues librarian Harley Bell and get your Palmerston North City Library fines waived" Read more at:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4651539a6502.html

Food for Fines
During the month of September any Jefferson County library (Birmingham Public Library, USA) patron may bring in donations for our food drive and have overdue charges waived for participating. Check out their blog and youtube Food for Fines video at:
http://bplolinenews.blogspot.com/

Slow economy fuels surge in library visits
According to the ALA’s 2008 State of America’s Libraries Report, Americans visited their libraries nearly 1.3 billion times and checked out more than 2 billion items in the past year, an increase of more than 10 percent in both checked out items and library visits, compared to data from the last economic downturn in 2001... more:
http://tinyurl.com/5uf6wm

Conferences

QPLA Annual Conference 2008, Future Thinking - Future Proofing
Queensland Public Libraries Association would like to extend a warm invitation to you to attend this year’s conference celebrating public libraries. For more information regarding the program and registration please go to: http://qpla2008.wetpaint.com/page/Program
http://qpla2008.wetpaint.com/page/Registration

ALIA Information Online Conference 2009
The ALIA Information Online Conference & Exhibition will be held at Darling Harbour Exhibition and Convention Centre, Sydney from the 20th to 22nd January 2009. For conference registration information go to: http://tinyurl.com/5dnyx4
http://www.information-online.com.au/

NLS4 earlybird registration closes – 5th September 2008
Don’t miss out on the earlybird registration! The 4th ALIA New Librarians Symposium will be held from 5-6 December 2008 at CQ Functions in Melbourne. The theme, ‘breaking barriers’, will provide emerging professionals with opportunities to explore how these barriers can broken.
http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2008/

ALIA Tasmania Conference - Growing Your Career
ALIA Tasmania conference - Growing your career: what does the future hold for you? Registrations are opening soon for this one day conference on 12 October 2008, organised by ALIA Tasmania. Keynote speakers - Dr Gillian Hallam and Mary McGuinness, plus a panel of local LIS practitioners.
http://www.alia.org.au/groups/aliatas/

4th ALIA New Librarians Symposium
EARLYBIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 5th SEPTEMBER! To be held 5-6 December 2008 in Melbourne. The theme is “Breaking Barriers” - challenging delegates to look beyond the barriers they face in their career and workplace. Don't be the only one to miss out!
http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2008/

Believe it or Not!

Librarian writes tell-all book, gets fired
A librarian who wrote a fictional account of library patrons in a made-up town has been fired from her position at the Mason County, Mich., District Library and is appealing the termination. Read more at:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=72228

Policy and advocacy

Librarians fight privacy legislation
Derek Whitehead, ALIA President, comments in The Australian newspaper that the adverse impact of the proposed new privacy legislation could extend beyond the media to business and even people who use public libraries. Read more at:
http://tinyurl.com/5s98bh