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ALIA HLA professional development day, 'The Value Proposition' held in 2013. Featuring presentations addressing:

• Research into our services and skills.
• Search skills of health librarians – how do we measure up?
• One tribe- many tribes? Mapping the boundaries and our population. Workforce, place, role, the HLA census.
• Marketing health librarianship as a profession. Adding value to health librarians' professional role: HLA research into education and workforce needs, and the launch of the PD health specialisation.
• ePortfolios to support PD.
• 2012 HLA/HCN Award winner from CareSearch (Palliative Care Knowledge Network) – search filter development and the implications for practice.
• eResearch@Flinders: reusing librarians’ skills for a new area of service delivery.
• Single click results- aiding access to clinical information.

The project was initiated by the National Year of Reading 2012 founding partners, with the Australian Library and Information Association as the auspice body. The project concept was prompted by recognition that there were many challenges being faced by providers of early literacy programs in remote Indigenous communities. With vast distances involved, the cost and difficulty of travelling to remote communities, the small size of the population in each location, the different language groups, the shortage of experienced workers, the time to build up trust and intense competition for funds mean that work in remote communities creates many barriers to sharing and partnering.

The goal of the project was to facilitate input from service providers of early literacy programs in remote Indigenous communities with a view to understanding what early literacy programs (outside of the formal education framework) are being delivered in remote Indigenous communities and to develop initial insight into the hallmarks of a good practice framework that can guide future government investment and non-government organisation (NGO) focus. It is intended that the outputs from this project will also encourage knowledge transfer, capacity building and collaboration across the early literacy sector.

The purpose of this report is to assist library and information professionals to present the business case for health libraries within their organisation. By doing so, we hope health libraries will be able to maintain their excellent service to medical practitioners; a service which impacts directly on positive health outcomes for patients.

A consortium of library associations including the Australian Government Libraries Information Network (AGLIN), Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA), Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Health Libraries Australia (HLA) and Health Libraries Inc (HLI) has worked with SGS Economics & Planning Pty Ltd (SGS) in the preparation of this report. This research seeks to contrast the costs and benefits associated with the operation of special libraries (including government, health, law and corporate libraries) across Australia; the aim of this research being to demonstrate the net benefits these libraries confer.

Health Libraries Inc (based in Victoria) and Health Libraries Australia (a national group of the Australian Library and Information Association) commissioned award-winning firm SGS Economics and Planning to survey health libraries across the nation and from this to assess the return on the annual investment in these services to their organisations.

Healthcare professionals were asked how they thought their library and information services had helped them over the last year, this infographic represents the results of this survey.

Taking into account feedback received from library and information professionals, ALIA developed a set of key principles for the procurement and use of ebooks in Australian libraries. These basic principles will guide the sector’s response to government policy and commercial initiatives, support our lobbying and advocacy, and enable us to take the lead in areas over which we have direct control.

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. 

Budget highlights for library and information professionals include: new school resourcing standards will include school libraries; $180m allocated to university research infrastructure; continued emphasis on the NBN, including digital hubs and cybersecurity; copyright reform remains on the agenda; open access policy a priority for the Australian Research Council.

ALIA Australian Capital Territory (ACT) submission in response to the 2013 Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) discussion paper Library and information services: the future of the profession - themes and scenarios 2025.

Regional teleconference attendees' submission in response to the 2013 Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) discussion paper Library and information services: the future of the profession - themes and scenarios 2025.

This submission examines cyber-safety and seniors focusing on the advantages and the barriers to being online and the role that public libraries already play in training for digital literacy and support for senior Australians in the online world. It describes examples of the current delivery of services such as Senior’s Internet Training and offers some suggestions to increase the level of digital literacy training for seniors, for consideration for the future.

Notice of meeting and agenda of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) 24th Annual General Meeting held on 15 May 2012 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra.

This document is an evidence-based guide for the development of public library services in Australia. It uses the National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) annual collation of state and territory statistics as its evidence base, and builds on the earlier work on standards and guidelines carried out by the State Libraries of New South Wales and Queensland.

Standards are quality levels – goals for attainment – and they are presented at baseline and enhanced service delivery levels. Guidelines document best practice and are intended as operational suggestions for improving library performance.

This document was superceded by "Guidelines, standards and outcome measures for Australian public libraries: July 2016".

January 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

The role of library and information professionals is to find, share and connect. To connect people with ideas, books, information, knowledge, resources and the broader community. Library services enable discovery and innovative thinking, and, as information professionals, we are trusted guides. In a global knowledge economy, our information skills have never been more important.

This submission recommends: Amendments to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), as it applies to government information, in order to promote freedom of access ; nominating a single agency and providing it with the funding and resources to store government information and make it accessible to the public; recognise and develop the role of national, state and public libraries in connecting every Australian with the information generated by government.

This submission from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALIA) to the Australian law reform commission inquiry into copyright and the digital ecomony discusses the possible reform of Australia's copyright law to benefit the digital economy.

Copyright law impacts on most of what libraries do. It affects the services that libraries can provide to their users and the conditions under which they provide access to copyright materials. It affects the way in which libraries can undertake effective archival and preservation activities. Librarians have traditionally been guardians of copyright. Now they have also become creators of copyright materials, both with digital content and organisational websites.

Contents: President's report -- 2011 awards -- Conference and events -- 2011 in review -- Financial report.

November 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

October 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

September 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

August 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

July 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

June 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

May 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

April 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

This submission has two purposes. The first is to establish ALIA’s interest in being involved in further discussion and consultation around the choice of Essential Statistical Assets for Australia; the second is to make the case for the inclusion of an additional statistic, and for the retention of two of the Category D “possibly out” statistics.

March 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

February 2012 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.