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This document provides an overview of Federal Government Budget 2011 topics which may affect Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) members and their organisations, including: the National Broadband Network, internet filtering, cyber-safety, education and early childhood development, adult literacy.

Minutes of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) 23rd Annual General Meeting held on 17 May 2011 at ALIA House, Canberra.

November 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

October 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

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 program sets out the schedule of the day's activities.

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: Topics to be investigated include: How do we navigate the eBook landscape? How do we best integrate them into the curriculum and library?

This program provides a schedule of the day's activities.

HLA News: National News Bulletin of Health Libraries Australia - A group of the Australian Library and Information Association

Contents: Certification and revalidation -- From your convenor -- Queensland's natural disasters -- Independent information business -- London Online 2011 report -- NSW health librarians meet for PD -- Impressions from Information Online 2011 conference -- Health Libraries Inc 7th annual conference report -- News from your sponsor: Informit -- Introduction to the HLA Executive -- Australian Health Informatics Education Council -- Heather Todd's UQ Leadership Award.

HLA News: National News Bulletin of Health Libraries Australia - A group of the Australian Library and Information Association

Contents: The long march: national access to health information online -- From your convenor -- Sound selection: podcasts prove popular -- It's a set up! Wifi at the NT Department of Health Library -- Evidence 2010 report: transforming healthcare -- HLA/HCN Innovation Award announcement: winner and finalists -- Centre for Evidence Based Practice Australasia: twelve months on -- News from your sponsor: Informit -- MLA 2011 annual meeting report -- The librarian's librarian: tribute to Veronica Dellafosse -- Update on the NHS -- ALIA HLA Professional Development Day: call for expressions of interest.

HLA News: National News Bulletin of Health Libraries Australia - A group of the Australian Library and Information Association

Contents: Sometimes it's my job to hold the folder: the clinical librarian role with an Acute Pain Service -- From your convenor -- Valuing knowledge and expertise: LBLIP6 -- iPod iInnovate: HLA/HCN Health Informatics Innovation Award -- HLA's PD Day: intersections report -- News from your sponsor: Informit -- Enhancements to Cochrane Library -- HLA Workforce and Education Research project outcomes -- Update from our UK correspondent -- Gray's Anatomy of health informatics -- Book reviews -- News brief: expert searching in Australian health librarianship.

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. It 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 session on how the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) will promote and support the National Year of Reading 2012.

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.

HLA News: National News Bulletin of Health Libraries Australia - A group of the Australian Library and Information Association

Contents: Pay per view for end users: experience from a pilot project -- From your convenor -- Library supervision: adapting the Queensland P&CHS supervision model for health librarianship -- About the ALIA PD Scheme -- Some like it hot: residential evidence based practice event -- Expanding EBP horizons -- News from your sponsor: Informit -- Expert searching by Australian health librarians -- HLA 2011 Executive Committee list -- Book reviews -- Diary dates.

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.

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.

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.

January/February 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

March 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

April 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

September 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) welcomes the development of a National Cultural Policy. A coherent national policy can provide the leverage and the focus that channels funding to agreed national priorities. For libraries, where our role spans many sectors, a national policy can bring together the complex parts and provide a clear statement of priority and intent. ALIA submits the following recommendations:

1. Libraries and national cultural collection institutions should be recognised separately within the National Cultural Policy
2. That the National Cultural Policy clearly define the way forward for national digitisation funds and projects to ensure appropriate preservation of Australian historically significant content and how they would support and link to other government initiatives such as the National Broadband Network. This could take the form of an online cultural collections strategy.
3. That the National Cultural Policy clearly define the way forward for preservation of significant born-digital Australian collections and how services such as the National Library of Australia’s Trove and Pandora will be supported to preserve more online content to enable greater access in the future.
4. To include an explicit goal in the National Cultural Policy in relation to preserving and ensuring ongoing access to Australia’s cultural collections in both digital and physical formats.

ALIA National Library and Information Technicians Symposium, 2011 Perth: back to basics

This conference report was composed by the recipient of the WALT symposium grant.

The aim of the WA Library Technicians Group (WALT) symposium grant is to enable students and recent graduates of a library technician qualification course to experience the value of a National Library and Information Technicians' Symposium. The Symposium is a prime source of professional development and networking opportunities for library technicians within Australia and overseas.

August 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

Contents: President's report -- Executive Director's report -- 2010 awards -- Conference and events -- 2010 highlights -- 2010 in review -- Financial report.

July 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

June 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

May 2011 edition of ALIA PD Postings - professional development news and advice for LIS professionals.

Notice of meeting and agenda of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) 23rd Annual General Meeting held on 17 May 2011 at ALIA House, Canberra.

Developed by the Australian Library & Information Association, in partnership with Public Libraries Australia, Friends of Libraries Australia, State and Territory Libraries, ACT Library and Information Services and the state public library associations

This overview is intended for library professionals, to explain the background to the development of the national vision and framework for public libraries and to provide information that can be used in support of local business cases

This guide should be used in conjunction with the ALIA guide to disaster planning, response and recovery for libraries.

These scenarios can be used for staff training sessions can be used in practical training sessions to prepare staff and management to implement disaster plans.

This document is superceded by "ALIA disaster scenarios for staff training sessions (2019)".