Online

11 October 2016, Online 8 pm (Syd-Canb-Melb time)

Are you a library and information professional?
Are you doing a research project or finished one relatively recently?
Would you like to share your experience with colleagues?
If you answered "yes" to these questions, you may like to present in the next LARK meeting online.

Find out details and let us know if you would like to participate https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X3C79Y6

The first online forum for 2016 will commence on Wednesday 27 April and conclude on Wednesday 4 May. The topic is: Victorian curriculum.

We will explore particular aspects of this new curriculum, investigate how it aligns with the Australian curriculum, identify how as teacher librarians we can support its implementation. We will also unpack issues in both the primary and secondary school settings.

To join the online forum you will need to access our blog at http://aliaschools.wordpress.com

#EBLIPRG (Evidence-Based Library Practice Reading Group) Meeting on Thursday, 29 October, NEW TIME 2pm AEST on Twitter. #LARK

The next #EBLIPRG  article is :

A 3 week online storytelling course.

This age-old skill has tremendous value in promoting literacy, books and reading. Examine the history of oral traditions and how storytelling is relevant to today’s world.

This 6 week  online course from ALIA Training focuses on the importance of promotional activities and events planning in libraries in a period in which economic and political factors and technological change are leading to funding constraints in all libraries, public, academic, school , government and corporate. Check the ALIA Training page for more information.

Register by FEB 10

The great challenge of this digital age we find ourselves in will be to ensure that what we do - the collection, preservation and management of information is done in a consistent manner which ensures it is accessible in the future. Cataloguing remains one of the best tools we have to guarantee that information, irrespective of its format or content, can be accessed. This 6 week course will cover all the bases.

The need to address the challenges of the digital world and metadata users has resulted in the development of the new cataloguing record standard, RDA: Resource Description and Access, to replace AACR2.

This 3 week online course will provide practitioners with an overview and understanding of the changes RDA implementation will bring. 

The need to address the challenges of the digital world and metadata users has resulted in the development of the new cataloguing record standard, RDA: Resource Description and Access, to replace AACR2.

This 3 week online course will provide practitioners with an overview and understanding of the changes RDA implementation will bring. 

The need to address the challenges of the digital world and metadata users has resulted in the development of the new cataloguing record standard, RDA: Resource Description and Access, to replace AACR2.

This 3 week online course will provide practitioners with an overview and understanding of the changes RDA implementation will bring.