ALIA blog
Monday 17 July
SA Library Achiever
Our board meeting
was again a full agenda and was followed by the presentation of the ALIA SA Library Achiever of the Year. Congratulations to ... Dr Jennie Hanisch.Saturday 15 July
Blogging
First blog post for 6 weeks (aaggh). Where did all the blogging go?? ...you may be asking. Well it has just been rather busy (understatement). I have still not got the ability to send my thoughts to the keyboard automatically (I wonder when 'telekinesis to the keyboard' will be invented?)
I have done abit of backdating of events over the past month... Apologies for the bulk posting ...
Friday 14 July
Groups Liaison Officer
We advertised a new position within National Office this week - a part-time Groups Liaison Officer (or our GLO for short).
This position will take forward the Board of Directors priority for 2006/7 of empowering and supporting ALIA Groups.
Thursday 6 July
Welcome Niki
A further meeting was held today to discuss closer collaboration with Public Libraries Australia (PLA) and Niki Kallenberger (please remove .nospam from address) has been appointed as the part-time PLA/ALIA Project Officer until the end of 2006. This is a great step forward to ensuring that public library issues really do get addressed appropriately and that both organisations can take full use of opportunities when they arise.
Tuesday 4 July
Congratulations Tom
Dagmar Schmidmaier (please remove .nospam from address) to and I had the great pleasure of presenting Tom Cochrane from QUT an ALIA Fellowship. The gathering of Tom's family, colleagues and friends highlighted Tom's contribution to the profession.
Monday 3 July
Collective Agreement 2006-2009
Thanks very much to our Industrial Relations Advisor Phil Teece for another great job assisting with getting together the ALIA National Office Collective Agreement 2006-2009 which was voted, signed, sealed and delivered today. This is another milestone for ALIA National Office!