ALIA Queensland held their mini -conference, ReImagine, last week on the 2nd of November at the State Library of Queensland’s creative space, The Edge.
A jam-packed day of presentations, workshops, and lightning rounds featured keynote presentations, Reimagining Library Spaces from Kevin Hennah (Library Consultant & Speaker), and Thinking Strategically from Dr. Danny Kingsley (Director of Library Services, University of the Sunshine Coast). Dr.Kingsley’s presentation was streamed live and is still available to watch via ALIA QLD Facebook.
The Queensland Library Achiever of the Year and ALIA Awards were presented during the mini-conference, so make sure to check out all of the videos on the ALIA Queensland Facebook page. You can also explore posts on Twitter from the mini-conference under #ALIAMiniCon22
Congratulation to ALIA’s latest Distinguished Certified Professionals.
📜 Emily Wison (AALIA) DCP (South Australia)
📜 Ellen Coates (AALIA) DCP #ALIAVIC (Victoria)
📜 James Baker (AALIA) DCP #ALIAVIC and #ALIAGraphic (Victoria)
📜 Jeremy de Korte (AALIA) DCP Schools/Public Library (Victoria)
📜 Erin Mollenhauer (AALIA) DCP Heritage Collections (New South Wales)
Professional Pathways Continue!
There are more Professional Pathways events for the month.
Join:
📌Online: Professional Pathways Consultation Workshop on 13th October, via Zoom, 4:00pm – 6:00pm (AEDT) 📌Adelaide: Professional Pathways Consultation on 3rd November, State Library of South Australia, 1:00pm – 5:00pm (ACDT) RSVP by 1st November 2022 📌Darwin: Professional Pathways Consultation on 7th November, Libraries and Archives NT, 1:00pm – 4:30pm (ACST) RSVP by 5th November 2022
📌Online: Professional Pathways: Rare Books and Special Collections RSVP by 25th October 2022
📌Online: Professional Pathways: Health Libraries online info session RSVP by 27th October 2022
Past Professional Pathways Events:
📌Canberra 7th October 📌Melbourne 4th October Consultation Workshop 📌Ballarat 5th October Consultation Workshop
📌Visit the ALIA Professional Pathways Events page for more information on Professional Pathways near you.
Catch up on the ALIASNGG and ALIANGAC Professional Pathways: Student and New Graduates Information Session Event with Trish Hepworth from the 6th of October.
Register to join INCITE in Conversation Building trust with AFTRS (Australian Film Television & Radio School) students at the Jerzy Toeplitz Library in Sydney.
Learn about Abstracts and Presentations with ALIAWest!
In preparation for the New Librarians Symposium 2023, #ALIAWest has created an event to help you with your questions on writing Abstracts and Conference Presentations 📝📑
If you are interested but can’t attend the event in person, fear not – ALIA West have you covered and will be live streaming the event on the ALIA West Facebook page.
📌When: Saturday, 5th November 2022
📌Time: 1:30pm – 4:30pm (AWST)
📌Location: Great Southern Room – State Library of Western Australia 25 Francis Street Perth, WA 6000
On the 13th October ALIA SA had their Disaster Preparedness and our Cultural Heritage Collections Event at the Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library SA.
A half-day symposium on the role of cultural heritage collections and a workshop on disaster preparedness and collection digitization.
Queensland Library Achiever of the year.
The 2022 Queensland Library Achiever of the year happened this month.
What is Queensland Library Achiever Award?
An annual merit award for individuals working in the library and information centre in Queensland.
Aiming to promote innovation and excellence in the library and information profession
Started in 1995 and maintained by #ALIAQLD
Visit ALIA QLD WordPress for more event details!
Catch up on #ALIASNGGBookClub
Are you interested in joining the #ALIASNGGBookClub Facebook Group discussion?
Catch up on Week 4, 5 and 6 Discussion questions and share your thoughts on The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde with the ALIASNGG Book Club.
📌Week Four – The Eyre Affair Discussion: Key Moments In Lit
📌Week 5 – The Eyre Affair Disscusion: Acheron Hades
📌Week 6 – The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Discussion: Science
Catch up with ALIANGAC #AusLibChat!
ALIA NGAC’s Selection Criteria #AusLibChat was on 4th October. Explore the ALIA NGAC Wakelet for posts from the chat.
Keep an eye on the Monthly Newsletter or visit the ALIA Events page for professional development events near you!
Check out the monthly newsletter for updates on what we’re up to online and in your state.
Get Engaged with ALIA SNGG WordPress Blog!
Join ALIA SNGG WordPress Blog Team.
ALIA Students and New Graduates Group are searching for new Social Media Coordinators for the ALIA SNGG Blog.
📌Key Selection Information:
Are you an ALIA Member/ALIA Technician? Do you have strong social media and writing skills? Are you interested in web design, web accessibility and communication? Are you creative with a passion for #GLAMR? Interested in networking with the GLAMR community?
Request a Resume Review with the ALIA Resume Review Service!
Are you a student, new graduate or professional searching for a #GLAMR job or resume writing advice?
📌Eligibility for a review from the service:
Current ALIA Member
Recent qualified library technicians/librarians
Current student in a library technician or library course in Australia.
(Professionals returning to the workforce after a hiatus are also welcome).
📌Please note: there is a limit of three reviews per year
📌How to request a review:
Send an email to alia.sngg.rrs@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Resume review request’ and include the following information in the email:
Your resume attached as a Word document (.doc, .docx, or .rtf)
Your name and email address
Your ALIA number
A list of any areas of the resume you would like resume feedback for
If applying for a specific job, please include an active PDF link or file attachment for the job you are applying
📌What to expect:
Your selected reviewer will reply to you within two weeks with feedback on improving your resume based on their experience and expertise.
The resume review is confidential.
The Resume Review Service Coordinator and the selected reviewer will delete your files once the review is complete.
We will add your name and email address to a Google Spreadsheet accessible only to the service coordinators. Please let us know if you do not want your details kept on the Google Spreadsheet after the review.
📌Please email alia.sngg.rrs@gmail.com for questions about this resume review service and your eligibility.
Join ALIA SNGG Book Club September – October read-a-long.
Source your book to join ALIA SNGG Book Club’s September – October read-a-long of The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Make sure to share what version of the book you are reading with the Facebook group.
Join the ALIA SNGG Book Club this month on Facebook for their latest discussion in their September – October read-a-long of The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.
Make sure to share what version of the book you are reading in the chat!
📚 Join the ALIA SNGG Book Club on Facebook to find a place to network with studying, new & existing Biblarians*.
Registration is now open to join @aliaQLD for their ALIA Queensland Mini Conference at the Edge, the State Library of Queensland on the 2nd of November, 2022.
Join ALIA Vic on October the 30th at 2:00 pm at Prahran Mechanics Institute Victorian History Library (PMI Victorian History Library) for a conversation on classification.
Find answers to how classification works in a library and why it is relevant.
Join ALIA NewGrads, ALIA NGAC and ALIA’s Director of Policy & Education Trish Hepworth for a FREE Zoom Professional Pathways: Students and New Graduates Information Session!
This September, phase one of ALIA’s Professional Pathways Consultation Program is happening across Australia.
States that are running Professional Pathways Workshops include:
Completed Professional Pathways Workshops:
Cairns and Townsville 2nd September
Perth 8th September
Registration is still open to join:
Sydney RSVP by 25th September
Hobart RSVP by 26th September
Launceston by 27th September
Melbourne by 2nd October
Adelaide by 1st November
View ALIA’s Event Listing page for more information.
ALIA Disability Web Accessibility Wrap-up
Last month ALIA Disability had its latest webinar on website accessibility. Features presentations by Michelle Ou from the Centre for Inclusive Design and Rosie Luscombe from the Digital Access Team at Vision Australia.
Areas of the webinar address:
Creating accessible web documents using Headings and Structures in Word and PowerPoint
Adding Alternative Text to images
Correctly naming Hyperlinks
Exploring Colour contrast to check the visibility of foreground and background images, text and websites
Reading Order
Rosie Luscome’s tips for writing alternative text are:
Describe the most important and information element of the images (race, gender and disability if known)
Don’t start your alt-text with “image of”
Include all text within the image
Don’t write lengthy alt-text
View ALIA Disability’s link on ALIANational’s YouTube Channel.
Check out the monthly newsletter for updates on what we’re up to online and in your state.
📌 New book for National Simultaneous Storytime 2023.
National Simultaneous Storytime 2023 book The Speedy Sloth. Written by Rebecca Young and Illustrated by Heath Mckenzie.
This month ALIA announced that The Speedy Sloth, written by Rebecca Young and Illustrated by Heath Mckenzie, would be the chosen book for National Simultaneous Storytime on the 24th of May 2023. 📅
📌Save the date for New Libraries Symposium 2023 update!
Save the date for NLSX 2023
Registration is open to join the New Librarians Symposium 2023 Event.
The ALIA NLSX theme is eXchange, eXplore, eXpand.
When: Saturday, 29th of July 2023.
Where: Online
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00pm (AEST)
Cost: TBA
Visit the ALIA Event Listing page for more information on NLSX2023
ALIA NGAC August 2022 Updates
📌 ALIA NGAC Call Out!
The ALIA New Generations Advisory Group are searching for new NGAC members to join their team!
Why join #NGAC as a member?
NGAC membership provides exciting opportunities to:
Learn what an advisory committee does.
Actively participate in professional development activities.
Grow your professional learning network.
Engage in leadership and collaboration to enact change.
Develop teamwork skills with like-minded peers.
Develop project management, leadership, research, social media and online community development skills.
Develop graphic design and writing skills for the ALIA Board, publications and the web
Are you interested in applying?
📌 Email NGAC at aliangac@gmail.com by the 12th of September and attach a copy of your resume with a cover letter highlighting the selection criteria. For more information, view the NGAC post on WordPress.
📌#AusLibChat LGBTQIA+ Inclusion – August 2022
ALIA NGAC and ALIA RAINBOW August AusLibChat on LGBTQIA+ Inclusion
This August, ALIA NGAC collaborated with ALIA Rainbow for #AusLibChat on LGBTQIA+ Inclusion.
📌Visit ALIA NGAC on Wakelet to catch up on the Twitter chat.
📌Get Engaged with ALIA Students and New Graduates Group.
ALIA Members ALIA SNGG is searching for new members to join the ALIA SNGG team as Social Media Coordinators.
ALIA SNGG Social media channels looking for new team members on:
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
ALIA SNGG WordPress Blog
📌 If you are keen to be a part of a fun team and build up your social media skills, send us an email to: alianewgraduatesgroup@gmail.com with a summary about yourself, why you would like to volunteer and what channel you are interested in joining.
#ALIASNGG
📌The ALIASNGG Book Club is back for 2022! 📚
Last month the ALIA SNGG Book Club started reading Persuasion by Jane Austen.
📚 Join the ALIA SNGG Book Club on Facebook to find a place to network with studying, new & existing Biblarians*.
Tonight ALIA QLD has their Annual Trivia Night Event at the Queensland Cricketers’ Club. The Trivia Night theme is We are Family.
#ALIAQLD #QLD
ALIA SOUTH COAST Event.
Catch up with ALIA South Coast on A Date with Dublin.
Meet Margie Kirkness, Manager of Shellharbour City Library and Museum, for a talk and presentation on her time at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress Dublin 2022.
Are you a part of the ALIA Continuing Professional Development (CDP) Scheme? Make sure to add a reflection on joining the event; this counts as 1.50 CDP Hours.
In this professional profile we continue to turn the spotlight back on ourselves with a closeup on one of the two Co-Convenors of the ALIA Students and New Graduates Group – Maddy Medlycott. Maddy works as a Legal Research and Reference Librarian at Crown Law Library in Brisbane. In this interview, Maddy discusses how her passion for transferable skills evolved into the Librarians and Dragonsworkshops she runs and provides some tips on staying connected with friends, family and colleagues. Continue reading →
ALIA Students and New Graduates Group 