what is ngac?
The New Generation Advisory Committee (NGAC) exists to help strengthen the participation of recently graduated library and information professionals in the Association. The Committee provides advice to the ALIA Board of Directors on issues of relevance to students and new professionals. The Committee works to provide information to the Board and ALIA House staff to inform development and delivery of services for new professional and student members, with the aim of ensuring the Association's relevance to these groups.
NGAC's priority projects
The Committee works on priority projects and provides recommendations to the Board for decision and action. Recent projects include:
Review of NGAC Twitter use and engagement 2014-2016
NGAC response to the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey 2017
Monthly Twitter discussions at #AusLibChat
Committee Annual reports
CONTACT US
Do you have comments or questions for NGAC?
Contact the Chair of NGAC, Sara Altmann, who will forward your comments to the committee.
Follow NGAC at @aliangac
NGAC Committee members:
Sara Altmann (Chair) | Michelle Coxsen | Liz Harris | Samantha Hay | Jade Koekoe | Lorraine Rose (Vice Chair) | Paige Wright
Sara Altmann
Sara is the Acquisitions and Liaison Librarian for an academic library. This role has her working with the library director and academic staff to select and source resources that will enhance and develop the library’s collection. Prior to this role Sara’s experience included the implementation of document and knowledge management systems within corporate sectors.
She graduated from Charles Sturt University with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Library and Information Management) in 2015 and is currently working towards a Diploma of Languages (French).
When Sara is not studying, reading or contributing her share of unpaid domestic labour, she spends an above average amount time negotiating for more bookshelves in the house and pondering whether the tea collection should be organised alphabetically, by type or by usage.
Michelle Coxsen
Liz Harris
Liz is a librarian and academic researcher. Her background is in academic health research, with expertise in the fields of psychology, brain and cognition, nutrition, ageing, and cardiovascular health. She completed her PhD in 2014, subsequently working as a postdoctoral researcher. Liz has authored 11 peer-reviewed journal articles.
In 2019 Liz completed the Masters of Information Management at RMIT while working as a Senior Research Advisor at La Trobe University Library, providing research advisory services to academics and postgraduate students in the College of Science, Health and Engineering. Her teaching experience includes undergraduate health science, research methods, and psychophysiology.
Samantha Hay
Samantha is a public librarian in Western Australia. A lifelong lover of libraries, her library career began as a high school student shelver almost 10 years ago. In the years since then she has been involved in many aspects of public librarianship, from designing children's programs to assisting seniors with accessing online resources, and everything in-between. She is passionate about the ways public libraries can improve the digital literacy of communities.
Childhood dreams of directing movies and an interest in pop culture resulted in Samantha studying a Bachelor of Arts (Gender & Cultural Studies and Screen Production) at Murdoch University. After a bit of soul-searching she realised libraries are where she belongs, and completed a Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Studies at Curtin University in 2015. She plans to complete further studies in librarianship in the future.
Samantha enjoys reading great books, playing fun games, and watching so-bad-they're-good movies, especially in the company of friends.
Jade Koekoe
Jade is an Online Presence Specialist and Career Coach with her business Misskoko the Librarian. In this role she focuses on helping Libraries and Librarians create a rocking online presence that brings them to the attention of all the right people. She also works for Melbourne Museum and various Libraries doing digital outreach and helping these organisations reach new (and existing) target audiences online. As well as social media, video and library marketing her interests include digital humanities, library carpentry and data mining.
Lorraine Rose
Lorraine is a Client Services Librarian at Charles Sturt University. She graduated from Monash University in 2017 where she completed a Master of Business Information Systems, specialising in Library and Information Science. She also holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Certificate IV in Practice Management and has been a vet and business owner in a past life before her quest for new knowledge started.
Hooked on lifelong learning and being a digital scholar, Lorraine likes using new technology particularly to help problem solve. She is focused on information literacy instruction and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
In that rare thing called spare time, Lorraine loves spending time with her family (both the two-legged and four-legged kind), reading, indulging in her love of seeing new places and dabbling in duck breeding. Long time lurker on twitter but determined to participate more, find her @RoseyRain.
Paige Wright
Paige is the Senior Library Technician at the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections where she focuses on community engagement and manages volunteers and digitisation projects. She has experience in digital curation, institutional repositories and digital special collections. Her interests include digital humanities, library carpentry and data mining.
Paige graduated with a Master of Information Studies (Information Architecture) from Charles Sturt University in late 2012. She also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design).
An avid reader, Paige loves SciFi/Fantasy and Young Adult books. Her guilty pleasures are Dr. Who and Eurovision. Find her on Twitter: @WrightPaige.