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ALIA National Advisory Congress reports

In September a program of regional meetings for ALIA members was conducted to gather members’ input to guide the professional organisation. The consultation focussed on lobbying and advocacy, local issues and reviewing outcomes of the 2008 topic – professional development. The report...

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librarie...act.info — October 28

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Mo-brarians are go!

This coming Movember we issue a call to Australia’s library workers: become a Mo-brarian and join the fight to change the face of men’s health. Movember, the formerly useless and boring month of November, has been remade with the addition of a little facial hair. Now a global charity...

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librarie...act.info — October 25

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Australian Newspaper Digitisation crowdsourcing review

Last year we reported that the National Library of Australia’s newspaper digitisation project had kicked off and that one of its features was that users could correct mistakes in the optical character recognition process. A review of this crowdsourcing has been available for some time, but...

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librarie...act.info — October 21

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Survey time!

Yet another post about VALA Kate Davis and her partner in crime, Carolyn McDonald, are working to complete their VALA paper (they have an extension…honest guv! but they need lots of folk to complete their survey. Full details can be found on Kate’s blog but briefly they are expl...

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librarie...act.info — October 20

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VALA – Information Technolgy Award Nominations

This just in from VALA: “****Information technology award**** VALA is inviting nominations for its most prestigious award, the Robert D. Williamson Award 2010, and we’d like them by Monday 15 November 2009 (but keep them secret!). This biennial award, always a surprise to its recipie...

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librarie...act.info — October 16

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Library Camp Perth 2009

Library unconference fever has hit Perth again with libcampperth09 kicking off this morning. Live coverage should be available from the unconference wiki using Coveritlive – although at time of writing it still says “Upcoming Event”. In addition a Twitter fountain can be seen o...

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librarie...act.info — October 03