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Aurora News Archive
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2007
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Aurora Scholarships
The Australian Library and Information Association
has announced that funds of up to $4,000 are available each year to support attendance by an ALIA member at the Aurora
Leadership Institute. The purpose of the scholarship is to enable an ALIA member to attend the Institute where this would
otherwise be difficult due to the financial commitment required. The scholarship is open to personal financial members
of ALIA who meet certain criteria. Further information: Aurora Scholarship
The Aurora Foundation may award a Warren Horton Scholarship to a deserving applicant who is not otherwise funded
by his or her employer.
AGLIN, the Australian Government Libraries Information Network, provides a scholarship supporting attendance by
an AGLIN Library staff member.
New Zealand applicants who are LIANZA members should contact LIANZA for details of any LIANZA sponsorship arrangements.
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Next Generation Leader Aurora Sponsorship. The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) and the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Maatauranga O
Aotearoa recognise the need for building leadership capacity in the profession and have announced the Next Generation Leader Aurora (NGLA)
Sponsorship for 2005/06. Since 1995 New Zealand library and information
professionals have attended each Aurora institute, and the contribution many of these individuals have made to their
workplaces and to the profession as a whole is recognised. The sponsorship is designed for LIANZA members from medium and small organisations for
whom attendance would be difficult due to the financial commitment required by their organisation.
(September 2004)
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2006
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Kate Sinclair wins WM Horton Scholarship.
The Aurora Board is pleased to announce that Kate Sinclair from Flinders University, Adelaide, has won the first Warren Horton Scholarship. This scholarship, named in honour of the principal founder and benefactor of Aurora, is awarded at the discretion of the Aurora Board to enable an outstanding candidate to attend an Aurora Library Leadership Institute. Kate has made a significant professional contribution, and has also been awarded ALIA's Metcalfe Award and an ALIA Silver Pin. (December 2006)
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Tania Barry wins ALIA Aurora Scholarship.
Sue Hutley, Executive Director of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), has announced that Tania Barry is the winner of the first ALIA Aurora Scholarship. Tania, from Wyndham Library Service (Vic.), is a very active member of ALIA who has also been awarded an ALIA Metcalfe Award, ALIA Silver Pin, CSU Dean's Award for Academic Excellence and the ALIA & Zenith CSU Student Awards. A formal presentation of the award took place on December 1st at NLS2006, the ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 2006. (December 2006)
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10th Aurora Leadership Institute, 2007. Progress report on the outcome of applications to attend the Aurora
Leadership Institute in February 2007.
The Aurora Board has met to consider a strong field of applicants for the 2007 Institute. The process of selection has been complicated by the fact that several applicants were not funded by their employing organisations and could only attend if they were awarded either the ALIA or the Warren Horton Scholarships. The Board has now made its decisions and will communicate them to all applicants by 20 November 2006.
Ian McCallum, Secretary, 13 November 2006
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10th Aurora Leadership Institute, 2007. The 10th Aurora Library Leadership Institute will be held from 15 to 20 February 2007 at Thredbo, NSW. Applications closed 30 September 2006.
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Aurora Development Day, Monday 18 September 2006, Perth (pre-Click ‘06 ALIA Conference). For Aurorans. Enquiries to: Monika Szunejko, Phone (08) 9427 3268, Email: monika.szunejko@slwa.wa.gov.au
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Vale Marian Bate. The Aurora Foundation Board and members of the Aurora community note with great sadness the death of Marian Bate on 21 May 2006. Marian was a major contributor to the development of librarianship in Australia, and was a mentor at the third Aurora Leadership Institute in 1999. We shall miss her rare ability to cut immediately to the heart of the issue. More information: Vale Marian Elizabeth Bate (25 May 2006)
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Aurora 9, 2006. The 9th Aurora Leadership Institute was held at Thredbo, NSW
from 16 to 21 February 2006. Applications were open from 9th August to 30th September 2005.
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2005
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Sue Hutley appointed ED of ALIA. The ALIA Board announced the appointment of Sue Hutley as Executive Director of ALIA. Sue (Aurora 1995), who is well known for her professional contribution and her membership of the Aurora Board, took up her appointment on 3 January 2006. More information: ALIA media release (13 December 2005)
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Aurora anniversary celebrations. Aurorans held numerous events in Australia and New Zealand to mark the 10th year since the first Aurora Leadership Institute. (November 2005)
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Warren Horton - Australian Academic and Research Libraries special issue, vol 36, no 3, September 2005 celebrates the late Warren Horton's contribution to Australian librarianship, with articles by Jan Fullerton, Peter Clayton, Frances Awcock, Gordon Bower, Alex Byrne, Ian McCallum, Peter Scott and Eric Wainwright.
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Clare Glanville wins Metcalfe Award. Clare Glanville (Aurora 2005) has won the prestigious Metcalfe Award for 2006. This award
recognises high achievement by a practitioner early in her or his career. More information: Clare Glanville award citation. (Clare's article on Aurora 2005 is in Incite, May 2005.)
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ALIA Board membership. Congratulations to the Aurorans who were successful in the recent ALIA elections: Dagmar Schmidmaier,
Vice-President and President-elect, Ann Ritchie re-elected, and Rachael Browning elected as Board members. (April 2005)
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LIANZA Presidents. Aurorans are making their mark in LIANZA - the Library and Information
Association of New Zealand Aotearoa. Three recent past-Presidents - Mirla Edmundson, Lisa Tocker and Spencer Lilley, are Aurorans.
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8th Aurora Institute, 2005. The 8th Aurora Leadership Institute (A8) took place at Thredbo Alpine Village, NSW from 16 to 21 February 2005. Applications closed on 15 October 2004. The Aurora Board selected A8 participants from a very strong field, and commended the interest and persistence of some applicants unsuccessful in previous years.
(October 2004)
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2004
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Evaluation of the impact of A6.
Kay Barney's article, "Evaluation of the impact of the 2003 Aurora Leadership Institute - 'the gift that keeps on giving'",
appears in the Australian Library Journal, vol 53, no 4, November 2004, p. 337-348.
This article is an extract from a report to the Board of The Aurora Foundation Ltd, November 2003. (December 2004)
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Aurora Chairman. The Aurora Board is delighted to announce that Dagmar Schmidmaier AM, CEO and State Librarian, State Library of NSW, has accepted an invitation to join the Aurora Board as Chairman. (April 2004)
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2nd ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 2004. The Aurora Foundation is a Speaker Sponsor of the 2nd ALIA New Librarians' Symposium, 3rd to 4th December 2004, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide. (March 2004)
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2003
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Vale Warren Horton. After a long illness, Warren Horton, the Aurora Foundation's Chairman and Inspiration, died peacefully on 25 November 2003. The Aurora community, the wider library community, and his many, many friends, mourn his passing. Warren was instrumental in establishing the Aurora Foundation Ltd and worked hard to establish the current annual cycle of Leadership Institutes. The seventh Institute in February 2004 was the first without him. He'll be missed. |
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Obituaries:
* Farewell to Warren Horton AM, 1938-2003. National Library of Australia tribute
* Farewell to Warren Horton AM, 1938-2003, National Library News, vol 14, no 4, January 2004, p 3-4
* Herald-Sun (Melbourne), Wed 24th December, p 52 (by Frances Awcock)
* Warren Michael Horton AM, 23 June 1938 - 25 November 2003.
Australian Library and Information Association tribute, Incite, vol 25, issue 1-2, Jan/Feb 2004, p 6 (by John Levett)
* Warren Horton AM D Litt, 1938-2003, AARL- Australian Academic and Research Libraries, vol 35, no 1, March 2004, p. 53-55 (by Alex Byrne)
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Nominations for Aurora 7, February 2004 closed in September 2003 with a record number of applications.
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Aurora Recall 2003.
The Aurora Recall 2003 features in Australian Library Journal, vol
52, no 2, May 2003, p. 113-123.
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ALIA Board membership. Ann Ritchie (Aurora 1999) has been elected to the Board of the
Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and will serve
until the 2005 Annual General Meeting. (April 2003)
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New Venue for Aurora 6. The 6th Aurora
Leadership Institute, 7-12 February 2003 took
place at the Lakeside Hotel in central Canberra City, rather than at Thredbo. Commenting on the late change in venue, the
Chairman of the Aurora Foundation, Warren Horton, said: "Thredbo
village and the National Park surrounding it are closed due to
bushfires. Considering the
safety of participants, and the uncertainty related to when the venue
might re-open, we decided to invoke Plan B. The Lakeside is a hotel of great character, and we have been
fortunate to secure the top floor with its stunning views as our main
learning space. Parklands
around the hotel will also serve us well for outdoor activities."
[25 January 2003]
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Aurora
Recall Meeting. The Aurora
Recall Meeting will be held from 22-25 February 2003, at the Waiheke
Island Resort in Auckland, New Zealand. [2nd
August, 2002]
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2002
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ALIA
New Librarian's Symposium, Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, Friday 6th
and Saturday 7th December, 2002. This symposium for new librarians
and information professionals in the Australia-Pacific Region was organised by the ALIA Quorum group, which includes a number of
Aurorans.
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Sixth Aurora Leadership
Institute, February 2003. The Sixth Aurora Leadership
Institute will
be held at the Thredbo Alpine Resort, NSW from Friday 7 - Wednesday 12
February, 2003. Nominations closed 20 September 2002, and
successful nominees have been notified.
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Papers concerning Aurora and Snowbird Institutes - additional citations
added 2nd August 2002
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The Victorian Statewide Training Project for public library staff funded
a number of places at the 2003 Aurora Leadership
Institute. For further information please contact the Statewide
Training Coordinator at stp@slv.vic.gov.au
or 03 8664 7044.
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Testimonials page
- updated 28 August 2002.
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