ALIA Library

Librarians

Library technicians

ALIA Schools PD 2015: Promoting cultural change at Yarra Plenty Regional Library [slides]

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 21 March 2015: Be the change - promoting your school library

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the session from Yarra Plenty Regional Library on their approach to managing change.

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ALIA Schools PD 2014: Untangling the evidence - theory and practice [slides]

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 15 March 2014 Melbourne, Victoria: Advocacy with Evidence

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for school library services. Ways to gather evidence to promote and advocate for the school library will be explored.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the keynote address on evidence based theory and practice.

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Technical college libraries

ALIA TAFE library survey 2019

There are 246 TAFE libraries in Australia, supporting VET students in every State and Territory. At the beginning of 2019, ALIA's Vocational Education and Training Libraries Advisory Committee (VLAC), chaired by Brenda Burr, sought feedback about how changes in structure and funding have affected TAFE libraries and the library and information professionals who run them.

TAFE libraries were asked to complete an online questionnaire with 34 questions relating to budgets, staffing, collection formats, library space and size of customers served, library closures, changing user demands and the role of library and information professionals in the VET sector.

The survey ran in March 2019 and followed on from a similar survey carried out in 2016. Where possible, we have shown the results from both surveys to highlight similarities and differences. The 2019 survey data infers a sector reacting to both internally and externally driven circumstances. The survey results show a challenging environment in which TAFE libraries and their staff operate.

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Library surveys

Library trends

ALIA Schools PD 2014: Advocating for your school library [slides]

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 15 March 2014 Melbourne, Victoria: Advocacy with Evidence

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for school library services. Ways to gather evidence to promote and advocate for the school library will be explored.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the session which explores and unpacks the digital resources that are available for promoting the school library.

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Collection management (Libraries)

Archiving the 2013 Australian federal election

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger
This conference presentation discusses how the National Library of Australia and its participant agencies built the largest collection of online Australian election material to date in 2013. The election was notable in a number of ways, the new platforms being used to disseminate a political message, the amount of material that was produced and how much of this we could and could not collect.
Candidates and political parties have also embraced the online world and used it increasingly used as a means of spreading their campaign message. This election Pandora collected more than it has in any previous election, but content was missed. This was for a variety of reasons, lack of permissions, technical limitations and constrained resources. But what was collected will form the basis upon which future researchers can look back at what drove the election campaign online.

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Conferences

Elections

Social media

ALIA Schools PD 2014: Marketing your library [slides]

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 15 March 2014 Melbourne, Victoria: Advocacy with Evidence

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for school library services. Ways to gather evidence to promote and advocate for the school library will be explored.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the session which explores how to market the school library and teacher librarians.

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ALIA guidelines for industry placement: Diploma of Library and Information Services

This document provides best practice guidelines for organising industry placements and provides detail on industry placement processes for educators seeking guidance on best practice principles in industry placements.

The Guidelines are intended to provide a ‘best practice’ model for VET LIS course providers, the host organisations and students with the aim of achieving the best possible industry-relevant experience for the students. This revised and updated version of the Guidelines is aligned to key national resources, and they will serve as benchmark indicators of ‘best practice’ that can be used ALIA VET Placement Guidelines to strengthen placement practices. The Guidelines will also be used as a key resource by ALIA during course accreditation and should result in greater consistency across Australia.

This document replaces: "ALIA Guidelines for Industry Placement: Diploma of Library and Information Services" (2018)

ALIA Schools PD 2013: Exploring eWorlds - low cost and no cost resources [slides]

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 19 October 2013 Mill Park, Victoria: Exploring eWorlds

The seminar discusses accessing and managing online resources, including ePlatforms for managing eBooks.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the session which investigates access to public library online resources.

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ALIA core values policy statement

A thriving culture, economy, environment and democracy requires the free flow of information and ideas. Australia's library and information services are fundamental to the free flow of information and ideas and a legacy to each generation, conveying the knowledge of the past and the promise of the future.

Library and information services professionals commit themselves to the core values of their profession as described in the Australian Library and Information Association values statement.

This document replaces: ALIA Core values policy statement (2018)

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Information management

Librarians

Values

Authorisation in context: Potential consequences of the proposed amendments to Australian secondary liability law

This report, commissioned by the Australian Digital Alliance, discusses the Australian Government proposed amendments to the Copyright Act 1968 which seek to broaden the circumstances in which an organisation or individual may be liable for someone else’s copyright infringement. Although the Government’s proposed amendment appears to be squarely aimed at ISPs, the amendments would apply with equal force to any other person who provides goods or services which may be put to infringing use. This includes all organisations which provide internet access to the public (including government bodies, libraries, schools and universities), online platforms which enable users to upload and display images and videos (such as eBay, Facebook and YouTube), providers of remote or ‘cloud’ storage (including commercial businesses like Dropbox, Microsoft and Google, as well as schools and universities), organisations which loan out or make available copyrighted content (libraries and video stores) and businesses which make and sell everyday consumer technologies like CDs, CD/DVD burners, USB keys, hard drives, digital video recorders and photocopiers.

The report sets out the existing law in its historical and global contexts, and, on the basis of extensive consultations with representatives from universities, schools, libraries and the technology sector, explores the legal and practical implications of the proposed changes for Australian intermediaries. It finds that:

the proposed expansion of liability would potentially have significant deleterious effects for Australian institutions;
the existing Australian law is already as broad as or broader than those of its counterparts overseas (and fully compliant with its international obligations);
the proposal would use a ‘one size’ fits all approach contrary to a century of authority emphasising the necessity of determining liability with reference to all of the facts of each case;
it would give copyright owners considerably broader rights against Australian individuals and institutions than those suffering economic loss because of torts committed in other contexts (without any justification of why they should receive such special treatment);
the proposed amendments would likely result in persistent rightholder lobbying for new regulations that go further and do more, perpetuating uncertainty about the scope of intermediaries’ obligations and liability;
it would oblige greater reliance on ‘safe harbours’, driving increased account terminations;
the increased costs and uncertainty would make Australia less competitive and a less attractive place for investment; and
there has been no clear analysis about the benefits likely to be obtained in exchange for these costs.

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Law & liability

ALIA Schools PD 2013: Exploring eWorlds - low cost and no cost resources

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 19 October 2013 Mill Park, Victoria: Exploring eWorlds

The seminar discusses accessing and managing online resources, including ePlatforms for managing eBooks.

This document (seminar handout) supports the session which investigates access to public library online resources.

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Australian Library and Information Association Privacy Policy 2014

This Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Privacy Policy was approved by the ALIA CEO and came into effect on 12 March 2014.
This privacy notice sets out what information ALIA collects and why and how that information is used.

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Privacy

Social policy

ALIA By-Laws 2023

By-Laws of the Australian Library and Information Association as amended to May 2023.

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By-laws

Corporate meetings

Corporate resolutions

Library Association

ANZAC connections: digitisation, data and linkages

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger
This conference presentation discusses how the Memorial’s major digitisation, data and web development project ANZAC Connections, launched in December 2013, brings historic documents from the Memorial’s archive to all Australians and has delivered an appropriate platform to integrate and make available a substantial collection of rich data that exists from a variety of sources.

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Conferences

Digital preservation

World War 1914-1918

ALIA Schools PD 2012: Learning in a changing world - iMovie session

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 2 June 2012: Learning in a changing world - curriculum integration

Learning in a changing world is a series of five books prepared by ALIA & ASLA published by ACER to support teacher librarians and school libraries in the 21st century. This series will be the focus for professional learning during 2012.

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for school library services. This document supports the session on creating videos using iMovie.

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ALIA Board of Directors meeting: Take home messages - 9 and 10 August 2021

Summary of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Board of Directors Meeting held over two days on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 August 2021.

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Corporate meetings

ALIA Board Charter

The ALIA Board Charter sets out the roles of the Board, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Directors, the Board Committees and the Company Secretary, in order to facilitate Board and management accountability for ALIA’s performance and strategic direction.

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ALIA Schools PD 2011: What a classroom using ebooks would look like

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 19 March 2011 Camberwell, Victoria: Positives and pitfalls of eBooks and eReaders

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for providing school library services and investigates: How do we navigate the eBook landscape? How do we best integrate them into the curriculum and library?

This document supports the session on school library ebook and ereader management.

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Anne Harrison Award: research hot topics (2024)

Miss Anne Harrison (1923-1992) was librarian-in-charge of the Brownless Medical Library at the University of Melbourne (1949-1983), and founder of the Central Medical Library Organisation (1953-1994). She helped pioneer the introduction of Medline into Australia, and was a founder of the Australian Medical Librarians Group in the early 1970s, and later of the LAA Medical Librarians Section (now ALIA Health Libraries Australia).

The Anne Harrison Award was established to commemorate her work, and to encourage others to make their own contribution to the development of health librarianship.

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Awards

Library research

Medical librarians

ALIA Schools PD 2011: Getting started with ebooks

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ALIA By-Laws 2024

By-Laws of the Australian Library and Information Association as amended to March 2024.

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By-laws

Corporate meetings

Corporate resolutions

Library Association

Annual report 2018

Contents: About ALIA -- President's report -- Chief Executive Officer's report -- Director Corporate Services' report -- Director of Learning's report -- Director of Conferences and Events' report -- How we performed against the strategic plan -- Our membership -- Advocacy campaigns -- Government and stakeholder relations -- Special projects -- Conferences and events -- ALIA in the regions -- Education, professional development and training -- Awards -- Communications -- Financial statements.

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Annual reports

ALIA Schools PD 2011: eBooks - a guide and glossary

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Australian Library and Information Association Annual Report 2023

Contents: President’s Report -- Chief Executive Officer’s Report -- Chief Operating Officer’s Report -- About ALIA -- Our structure and governance -- Committees appointed by the ALIA Board -- Our Membership -- Our performance against the Strategic Plan 2021-2024 Key highlights -- Awards -- Financials

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Annual reports

ALIA Schools PD 2011: Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards [slides]

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 4 June 2011 Camberwell, Victoria: A world of stories - a reading environment

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for providing school library services and will provide participants with:

strategies for the promotion of reading and the enrichment of literature experiences
display ideas, activities and strategies with this year's Book Week theme: One world, many stories.
hearing from experts who are members of organisations promoting literature and literacy in schools and the wider community.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the keynote address from the Victoria National judge for the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards.

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ALIA Schools PD 2011: National Year of Reading 2012 - Love2Read [slides]

strategies for the promotion of reading and the enrichment of literature experiences
display ideas, activities and strategies with this year's Book Week theme: One world, many stories.
hearing from experts who are members of organisations promoting literature and literacy in schools and the wider community.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the session on how the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) will promote and support the National Year of Reading 2012.

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Institutional repositories

Analytics providing a constant stream of possibilities

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

This conference paper provides an insight into multiple projects running within Deakin University Library to consolidate the data across major Library services, in a cost effective and sustainable way. The overarching strategy is to develop a comprehensive dataset supporting business decisions, and in so doing allow the Library to optimise operations and services for the benefit of our clients.

To effectively communicate these benefits, the Library recognises the need to tell qualitative stories using quantitative data.

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Conferences

Research

ALIA Schools PD 2010: Managing your collection in the electronic environment [slides]

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 13 February 2010: Collection on a knife ($$) edge

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians with an interest in collection development: budgeting, policy and evaluation for both digital and print resources. The focus is on how to get value for the dwindling dollar and how to assess and evaluate what to purchase.

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the session "The Balanced Collection 2: Managing your collection in the electronic environment".

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