Personal Membership Benefits

Stay up to date

• Ensure you remain current with ALIA’s free member access to over 130 on-line full-text professional journals with ProQuest’s Library Science package.
• ALIA members can now download over 60 recent, specialist LIS eBooks covering a wide range of relevant topics. Read them online or offline on a laptop or ebook reading device. Our concurrent usage arrangement means you won’t have to wait. It’s quick, easy and absolutely free.
• Receive ALIA’s INCITE magazine to keep you informed about industry news, trends and all the latest developments in the library and information community.
• Our e-newsletters will ensure you are up to date with the latest news and trends through monthly and quarterly news updates.

Receive support and advice

• Search for the latest LIS jobs and sign up for an e-alert to have vacancies sent directly to your desktop.
• Access ALIA’s Employment and Industrial Relations advice service and receive expert employment-related advice.
• Benefit from ALIA’s extensive industry advocacy work at all levels of government, and with other associations both in Australia and overseas.
• Access ALIA’s Copyright advice service and resources.
• Support your career by accessing ALIA’s extensive Career Connect resources.
• Access ALIA’s Professional Development and Career advisory service for personal, relevant and timely guidance.

Be Recognised

• Apply for one of our many excellence or research awards.
• Join one of ALIA’s Advisory Committees, or nominate for the Board of Directors.

Develop your networks

• Increase your professional networks by volunteering for an ALIA group.
• If you can’t be at your local group’s meetings and events, then join an e-list and contribute to discussions ALIA provides opportunities to interact with professional colleagues face-to-face or electronically so they can share knowledge and best practices and advance the profession.

ALIA Training

• Refresh and update your skills and knowledge, or learn something new to broaden your professional scope. ALIA Training is open to all members
• Learning is facilitated through traditional face-to-face workshops and seminars alongside a variety of contemporary, online interfaces. Many courses are self-paced so can be completed at a time to suit today’s busy lifestyles and some courses may even be credited towards future formal tertiary study.

Professional Development

• Benefit from discounted registrations on ALIA events and conferences along with discounted registrations to events held by our partner associations.
• Join ALIA’s Professional Development scheme, which is open to all Associate and Library Technician members. The scheme is designed to create a formal record of your personal investment in your professional career by gaining Certified Practitioner status.