ALIA Aurora Scholarship

http://www.alia.org.au/awards/aurora.scholarship/
Funds of up to $4 000 are available each year to support attendance by an ALIA member at the Aurora Leadership Institute. The Aurora Foundation conducts the institute which aims to assist future leaders in the library and associated cultural and information industry to maximise leadership skills and potential.
The purpose of [...]

VALA-CAVAL Anniversary Series 2008 … 30 years of looking forward

To celebrate their respective 30-year anniversaries,
CAVAL and VALA are delighted to join forces and present
two internationally respected and insightful speakers.
Be informed and challenged as these speakers present
their views and experience on some of the key issues
facing our profession today.
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Lizanne Payne:
The Future of Library Collections:
Access and Stewardship in a Networked World
Over the past 25 years, the [...]

Cultural Acquisitions – Where from and what for?

ALIA Acquisitions Seminar, 17th October, 2008 in Canberra.
The ALIA Acquisitions Committee invites you to our annual one day Seminar in Canberra on Friday, October 17th, 2008.
Theme: Cultural Acquisitions – Where from and what for?

The all-day seminar will be held at the National Archives of Australia, Canberra

Program

Roxanne Missingham, Parliamentary Library, [...]

Where Metadata Fails: An Experiment on A University Website

Prof Justin Zobel, Chair of Computational Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Tuesday 7th October 2008
Time: 11.00-12.00
Place: VERSI, Ground floor Brownless Biomedical Library(where the old Telars people used to be)

E-research Forum for University of Melbourne Library Staff

What is eresearch and why should I care?

The topic of eresearch and the academic library is exercising many academic librarians. Scholarly Information is organising a forum on aspects of e-research. The focus will be on practical aspects of relevance to library staff. Liaison librarians, in particular, are encouraged to attend this professional development event. [...]

WebJunction launches new online social and learning experience for the library community

http://webjunction.org/1
free registration
WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience in close collaboration with partners in 15 state libraries. The new site builds on the deep repository of helpful content, relevant courses and active discussions that have been the hallmark of WebJunction [...]

About Five Weeks to a Social Library

http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/
Submitted by meredithfarkas on Sat, 2006-09-30 16:32.

About the Course
From the administrators

Five Weeks to a Social Library is the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. It was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning [...]

CAVAL Horizon – a new era for Australasian library leadership

The need for executive leadership capability in Australasian libraries has never been greater!
Horizon is Australasia’s first executive leadership program specifically designed to prepare senior library and information managers for appointments at Director-level and above.
CAVAL is very proud to announce that Annie Talve and the talented team at Make Stuff [...]

ANU Data Management Manual: Managing Digital Research Data at The Australian National University

Data Management Planning: a new teaching tool from The Australian National UniversityThe Graduate Information Literacy Program at ANU is now offering a course for researchers and graduate students on data management planning. This comprehensive Manual is accompanied by a Data Management Planning Template and Course Slides. These will be made available in the [...]

Reality 2.0: Dealing With Innovation in Today’s Information World

What are some of the strategies information professionals need in the changing information world? Stephen will talk about the real needs of real people living the Web 2.0 experience and information and knowledge economy. How can we use Web 2.0 tools to terra-form the living, breathing worlds we inhabit? What are some [...]