Showing posts with label ALIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ALIA. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
ALIA Information Online
The ALIA Information Online conference start today at Darling Harbour. Have a look at the program for highlights. There is an Information Online blog which you can follow, and you can read this blog for information from your library colleagues.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Award presentations
Derek Whitehead (president of ALIA) presented two ALIA Fellowships yesterday to:
- Roxanne Missingham - Parliamentary Librarian
- Christine Mackenzie - Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries
I had the honour of presenting three awards:
- International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) - Ena Noel Australian Encouragement Award to Markus Zusak.
- ALIA Marjorie Cotton Award - Melinda McNaughton from Sutherland Shire Libraries (NSW)
- ALIA Bess Thomas Award - Bidyadanga Community Library (WA)
Margaret Whitaker from City of Sydney Libraries received the ALIA Study Grant to research public music libraries and write a proposal for Sydney.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
local speakers
Melissa Jackson, Ronald Briggs, Fiona Blackburn and Sylvia Perrurle Neale before their talks yesterday.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
ALIA at Alice Springs hello
Greetings to my colleagues from Alice Springs and the ALIA conference. Well it's been great, even this first morning, meeting colleagues from beyond the walls of my usual sphere of LIAC. The Library 2.0 tools have been much in evidence - Google Maps, all sorts of blogs and video streaming - it sure adds colour to boring web sites. Good discussions also with staff from libraries far afield who are exploring ways to reach out to clients.
The Convention centre is a place big enough to cope with this wide brood of folk and small enough to encourage chats with everyone easy. And fun is big here. It's easy in such a beautiful environment with the red cliffs dramatic and inspiring us all on all sides.
Must dash now - lunch and chatting and learning call.
Jeanell
The Convention centre is a place big enough to cope with this wide brood of folk and small enough to encourage chats with everyone easy. And fun is big here. It's easy in such a beautiful environment with the red cliffs dramatic and inspiring us all on all sides.
Must dash now - lunch and chatting and learning call.
Jeanell
Library stars: access, entrepreneurs, meeting places - a perspective from Stockholm
This photograph shows the conference venue 
The key note for the day was given by Inga Lunden, City Librarian, Stockholm, and Director of Stockholm Public Library.
Inga highlighted the themes for the day providing examples of how public libraries provide access, invite entrepreneurs, and create meeting places. She described a library she had seen at the IFLA conference in Durban, where at Thekwini (between Durban and Pietermaritzburg) the library staff talked with the people in the community while they were growing a vegetable garden together. This garden grew, outside the library, as ideas were shared about health, and raising children, and over time more and more people joined together. This is a culture of participation, where people participating in growing beets, also came to participate in using the library.
The mission for Inga’s library is that “Stockholm Library will inspire to knowledge and imagination with knowledge and imagination”. She highlighted the need for all library staff to have a sense of curiosity and sense of adventure, the need for big ears and fast feet, intuition and sense of trust and timing and the confidence to use it as well as the networking skills of s spider. She said that we are working to change from information systems to communication systems, from intermediary culture to participatory culture, from final cut to always beta and not have to wait until everything is perfect.
Inga talked of the need for new skills – for patrons and staff, including reading and writing, research and analysis, negotiating across culturally different communities, forming bonds with community leaders and that libraries have to role to encourage people to play/stimulate/perform/appropriate/sample/remix
Stockholm is growing (to around 800 000 people). It is also growing in knowledge, diversity and complexity. Inga stressed that in libraries we can make use of people’s creativity and capacity – not only within the elite, that we should work with partners who we don’t usually work with
Inga also mentioned that libraries and museums are in the security business – libraries want to make people less scared of each other – to make them meet people from other areas. Stockholm are working on the library net, the net library and a new central library. They are linking ideas from the three areas so that each works better. For example every time someone wants to renew a book they have the opportunity to comment on the book and write a review for others in the library to read.
“When people in motion meet a library in motion everything is possible” comes from the Stockholm strategic plan, This has Stockholm public libraries striving to be more accessible, urgent, effective.
Claudia Lux, Director Berlin Public Library, and President of IFLA spoke of the IFLA libraries success database which is used for advocacy on an international level. All kinds of libraries were asked to add their success stories to the database
The key note for the day was given by Inga Lunden, City Librarian, Stockholm, and Director of Stockholm Public Library.
Inga highlighted the themes for the day providing examples of how public libraries provide access, invite entrepreneurs, and create meeting places. She described a library she had seen at the IFLA conference in Durban, where at Thekwini (between Durban and Pietermaritzburg) the library staff talked with the people in the community while they were growing a vegetable garden together. This garden grew, outside the library, as ideas were shared about health, and raising children, and over time more and more people joined together. This is a culture of participation, where people participating in growing beets, also came to participate in using the library.
The mission for Inga’s library is that “Stockholm Library will inspire to knowledge and imagination with knowledge and imagination”. She highlighted the need for all library staff to have a sense of curiosity and sense of adventure, the need for big ears and fast feet, intuition and sense of trust and timing and the confidence to use it as well as the networking skills of s spider. She said that we are working to change from information systems to communication systems, from intermediary culture to participatory culture, from final cut to always beta and not have to wait until everything is perfect.
Inga talked of the need for new skills – for patrons and staff, including reading and writing, research and analysis, negotiating across culturally different communities, forming bonds with community leaders and that libraries have to role to encourage people to play/stimulate/perform/appropriate/sample/remix
Stockholm is growing (to around 800 000 people). It is also growing in knowledge, diversity and complexity. Inga stressed that in libraries we can make use of people’s creativity and capacity – not only within the elite, that we should work with partners who we don’t usually work with
Inga also mentioned that libraries and museums are in the security business – libraries want to make people less scared of each other – to make them meet people from other areas. Stockholm are working on the library net, the net library and a new central library. They are linking ideas from the three areas so that each works better. For example every time someone wants to renew a book they have the opportunity to comment on the book and write a review for others in the library to read.
“When people in motion meet a library in motion everything is possible” comes from the Stockholm strategic plan, This has Stockholm public libraries striving to be more accessible, urgent, effective.
Claudia Lux, Director Berlin Public Library, and President of IFLA spoke of the IFLA libraries success database which is used for advocacy on an international level. All kinds of libraries were asked to add their success stories to the database
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
ALIA National Advisory Congress
The National Advisory Congress (NAC) was chaired by the ALIA president, Derek Whitehead. All members of the ALIA Board attended with the exception of Kate Watson.
Why have an NAC?
The aim of the NAC is to provide a forum for ALIA members to contribute to the strategy of the Association. Summaries of the regional meetings are available online and 3% of ALIA members participated in these meetings. The National NAC is held every two years at the ALIA Conference and provides a unique opportunity for members from all sectors to come together to discuss issues and strategy.
What did we talk about?
1. The outcomes of the Workforce and Education Summit
2. Professional Development was the main focus of this year's meeting. It's an ALIA priority for 2009 and there much debate about whether a compulsory scheme would be a good thing and what the roles of employers, educators, employees and ALIA should be in ensuring that we have a smart, skilled workforce. Did you know that approximately 10% of ALIA members are engaged in the Professional Development program?
3. The system of course recognition will be reviewed next year.
Posted by Mylee
Why have an NAC?
The aim of the NAC is to provide a forum for ALIA members to contribute to the strategy of the Association. Summaries of the regional meetings are available online and 3% of ALIA members participated in these meetings. The National NAC is held every two years at the ALIA Conference and provides a unique opportunity for members from all sectors to come together to discuss issues and strategy.
What did we talk about?
1. The outcomes of the Workforce and Education Summit
2. Professional Development was the main focus of this year's meeting. It's an ALIA priority for 2009 and there much debate about whether a compulsory scheme would be a good thing and what the roles of employers, educators, employees and ALIA should be in ensuring that we have a smart, skilled workforce. Did you know that approximately 10% of ALIA members are engaged in the Professional Development program?
3. The system of course recognition will be reviewed next year.
Posted by Mylee
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Getting directions... getting ready...
Fortunately we're flying to Alice Springs for the conference, according to Google Maps if we were driving it would take 1 day 9 hours to cover the 2,776 kms.
My first 'event' will be attending the ALIA National Advisory Congress where one of the major topics will be professional development, a theme I am quite passionate about.
My first 'event' will be attending the ALIA National Advisory Congress where one of the major topics will be professional development, a theme I am quite passionate about.
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