by admin | Jun 23, 2017 | networking, online presence, Professional Development
Would you look at that; 2017 is half done and July is looming. I don’t know about you, but July sometimes feels like a new January. For me, it means a new diary, a new tax folder, and now that I’ve committed to the ALIA PD Scheme, a whole new year of professional...
by admin | Jun 23, 2017 | ALIA Awards, North Metro Tafe
NORTH METROPOLITAN TAFE’S STUDENT AWARDS On Wednesday last week, I had the honour of presenting North Metro Tafe’s top achieving student for 2016 with the ALIA Student Award. ALIA provides the student awards to the highest achieving graduating student from all...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | ALIA National, copyright
On Thursday 15th June 2017, copyright officers and librarians around Australia celebrated as the Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill passed through Senate. The legislation contains a number of well-overdue copyright reforms which will:...
by admin | Jun 18, 2017 | CSWG, GLAM
What is the WACSWG? The Collections Sector Working Group (CSWG) held its first meeting on 19 July 2016. The purpose of the Working Group is to respond to a series of structural and funding changes in the collections sector and consider how to meet the...
by admin | Jun 7, 2017 | ALIA National, featured, Mentoring
At the recent Library Leadership day, one of the calls for action was around starting a mentoring scheme. Now I won’t try and take credit for the timing on this, but...