May 2006
Tuesday 30 May
Book Lust
Mark Macleod (our 2006 LIW James Bennett lecturer) participated in the ABC TV show Book Lust as a panelist. It was an interesting show and great to see a school librarian interviewed too.
Guess that librarians are a part of encouraging 'Book lust' .... could this be our 2007 Library and Information Week theme ??
Monday 22 May to Sunday 28 May
Library and Information Week
| This has always been a week to celebrate in my professional life! The National Office Staff have been busy stuffing envelopes full of the thousands of wristbands, bookmarks and posters being sent out to libraries. | |
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One of the best jobs of the week for me was to advise the winners of the Maisy Party Competition Winners. A parent of a small Western Australian school (Waikiki) found our website and entered on behalf of her school library. She was very surprised to win! Congrats also to our public library winner from Port Stephens. I attended the Canberra Library Technicians Day breakfast. Thanks to Beth Clary for again organising a great get together! |
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During the week we issued three media releases in conjunction with our sponsors - ABS and NetAlert - and I had a few radio and journalist interviews along the way. Thursday morning was a morning tea at the Australian Bureau of Statistics Library with Australian Statistician Dennis Trewin and the staff. Four ABS Library Directors were also in attendance. |
| And on Friday evening the James Bennett Lecture was conducted at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney. Our Guest Speaker Mark Macleod gave an excellent speech and this will be up on our website soon. Thanks to Chris and the staff at James Bennett for supporting this initiative during Library and Information Week |
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Thursday 18 MayILEAG
At the National Library of Australia's Resource Sharing Consultation Forum meeting today, the 2006 Australian Interlibrary Lending Resource Sharing Code was launched.
Happy ALIA ILEAG Committee Members (the interlending advisory committee to the Board of Directors) who have worked on this project for over a year celebrated the launch.
You can download [96kb pdf] the new details of the code, which come into force on 1st July.
Tuesday 16 May and Wednesday 17 May
Board meetings
Our two board meetings of the outgoing Board of Directors (16 May
) and the 17th May. In the middle the Annual General meeting was held at ALIA House and we also celebrated the launch of ALIA's new Affinity Program with Member Advantage.Monday 15 May
New Directors
Our new ALIA Directors arrived with us today for an induction session conducted by Dagmar Schmidmaier AM (incoming President), Dr Gillian Hallam (outgoing President) and myself. Directors of ALIA are elected and then take the responsibility for the company. Much of the guidelines for what we do comes from our Constitution and bylaws.
Ever thought of joining a Board? This info might give you a start.