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This presentation (PowerPoint slides) summarises the 'ALIA Rebuilding with Books' initiative. In August of 2009, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) partnered with the Australian Booksellers Association, and the Australian Publishers’ Association, to provide books to people who had been affected by the bushfires. The project included the State Library of Victoria, the School Library Association of Victoria, the Public Libraries Victoria Network, and the Friends of Libraries Australia.

Over the last five years, that TAFEs have been reducing their investment in course coordinators (the administrative support role). This has a negative effect on the student experience and has serious implications for the capacity of lecturers in terms of delivering the course and ensuring that students graduate with a full understanding of the subjects they have taken. This has the potential to devalue the course and to damage the reputation of the TAFE institution and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) as the accrediting body.

Research Applications, Information and Library Studies (RAILS) Conference, 28 - 30 November 2018 Melbourne: Engaging Research - Collaboration and Community
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanied the session which reported on the 2018 Competencies Review project.

These guidelines have been produced to assist senior managers in organisations, governments, institutions, who are responsible for library and information services but may not come from a library and information background. They are designed to provide a good practice model for undertaking a service review, to achieve the best outcomes with the least disruption.

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 10 August 2019 Melbourne: Reading for Everyone
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanied the session where panellists discussed the strategies they use to promote the reading culture at their schools.

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 10 August 2019 Melbourne: Reading for Everyone
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanied the keynote address 'Reading intervention' which explored why literacy intervention is crucial to students’ learning success, how to assess the learning needs of students, how intervention in reading is part of the role of the school library and identify ways the teacher librarian can contribute to being part of this program.

This research report presents the key findings of a project which aimed to provide a holistic picture of the role that humanoid robots play in Australian public libraries - as community builder, teacher, assistant and challenger.

ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 9 (NLS9), 5-7 July 2019 Adelaide: collaborate deviate innovate
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supported the lightning talk on the key outcomes and issues resulting from the State Library of South Australia's (SLSA’s) ‘modernising the collection of use statistics’ project.

ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 9 (NLS9), 5-7 July 2019 Adelaide: collaborate deviate innovate
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supported the lightning talk on issues regarding copyright for translated works, abstracts and summaries, and parodies.

ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 9 (NLS9), 5-7 July 2019 Adelaide: collaborate deviate innovate
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supported the talk on contemporary cataloguing practice - including metadata schema, user-created data and subject analysis, and maintaining MARC records.