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Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) resource for preparing a submission to INCITE magazine.

This document is an article published in INCITE July/August 2019 Volume 40, Issue 7/8.
Australian librarian and ALIA Fellow, Christine MacKenzie, will become the President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) at the World Library and Information Congress in Athens later this year for the 2019–2021 term. Before she commences her presidency, ALIA grabbed a moment of her time to have a chat about her presidential theme, the challenges on the horizon, and what she’s most looking forward to in her time in office.

Article published in INCITE  September/October 2019 Volume 40, Issue 9/10.
Robert Knight shares how, after successive state governments spent decades underfunding New South Wales public libraries, the 2018–2019 Renew Our Libraries campaign successfully delivered the largest single increase in library funding since the introduction of the NSW Library Act in 1939. 

Promotional material advertises the benefit of ALIA conference to professional development for information Professionals.

Pre-read speaker notes for presentation at National Library and Information Technicians' Symposium 2019.
This paper discusses the direction and development undertaken in expanding library services into social spaces, and the challenge of establishing a social presence for community building through Facebook.

True or False: Media literacy for capable, confidence, critical-thinkers virtual conference was held on 3 September 2020. 
This document provides a conference program summary. Featuring presentations:

Library Design Conference 2021: Changing Spaces virtual conference held on 18 March 2021.
This document provides a conference program. Featuring presentations on:

• Designing public buildings in a post-COVID environment (Keynote)
• Changing faces, spaces and places: the impact of Library space transformation at the University of Western Australia
• The Creative Technology Hub sets sail
• State Library Victoria
• City of Salisbury Library
• Library Design Awards 2021
• Library Design Awards panel

Speaker notes for this presentation which discusses:

• Highlights of the HLA Survey results Australasian Health Libraries responses to the COVID 19 pandemic.
• HLA Initiatives in response to the COVID 19 pandemic.
• Redeployment: my journey from the Library to the Emergency Department.
• Insights into Library responses from the international literature.

Des Tellis Australian Geoscience Information Association Grant is an annual grant fund of up to $2500 is available to ALIA Members who are Australian residents engaged in the practice or study of geoscience information and data management. The purpose of the funding is to provide financial assistance for projects that have one or more of the following objectives:

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 Organization (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).