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Special libraries provide a client focused library and information service. Special library staff obtain, organise and provide access to selected relevant, current and authoritative information sources for their organisation.

This document was superceded by "Guidelines for Australian special libraries (2019)".

Australian Academic & Research Libraries (AARL): Volume 41 No. 2 June 2010

The Australian Library Journal: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association - Volume 59 No. 3 August 2010

The Australian Library Journal: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association - Volume 59 No. 4 November 2010

Australian Academic & Research Libraries (AARL): Volume 41 No. 4 December 2010

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 executive summary explains the national vision and framework for Australian public libraries.

The Australian Library Journal: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association - Volume 59 No. 1/2 February/May 2010

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 22 May 2010 Northcote, Victoria: Across the story bridge...connecting readers

The seminar is for those with an interest in promoting reading and enriching literature experiences especially focused on this year's Book Week theme. Target audience is primary and secondary teacher librarians as well as other teachers, school library technical support staff with an interest in:

• strategies for the promotion of reading and enriching literature experiences
• display ideas, activities & strategies with this year’s Book Week theme
• hearing about the writing process from an author whose audience is both primary & secondary students

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: ICML 2009 report -- From your convenor -- Positioning the profession in Australia -- Patron of ICML -- News from your sponsor: Informit Health Collection -- Continuing education sessions at ICML 2009 -- Adventures galore: the social program -- CEBPA launch -- ALIA's HLA workforce and education research project 2009 -- 2010 HLA/HCN Innovation Award -- Call for nominations.

This submission from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) highlights three major issues—the importance of libraries and information centres in assisting high quality policy advice and service delivery, the need for whole of government approaches to information for an efficient and effective public service and the need to make government information widely available with web 2.0 technology to enable a high level of citizen participation in policy development a service delivery.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Government 2.0 Taskforce. ALIA believes that:

• it is very timely for a review of the potential to provide better access to government information and interaction with government now that the 2.0 technologies have emerged;
• a strong democratic Australia can only be achieved by engaging with public and other libraries to deliver digital connectivity, content and capability; and
• a clear, targeted strategy is needed to deliver social inclusion in the digital environment. A digital economy can only be build by a community with digital access, digital content that supports their lives and digital skills.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the state public library associations welcome the opportunity to comment on the Senate Select Committee's inquiry into the National Broadband Network (NBN). We believe that, with its high usage of electronic information services and public access points, the library and information services sector is a major stakeholder in the national broadband strategy.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is committed to an active policy of social inclusion and through its leadership, advocacy, education and professional development activities for and on behalf of its members, there is a well-educated library and information workforce whose contributions to libraries enhance the economic, social and cultural wellbeing of Australian society. 

The draft overarching framework in the issues paper does not fully identify the several roles, outcomes and impacts delivered by not for profit membership-based organisations such as ALIA. 

This submission from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) highlights the role public libraries can play as part of the emergency management process and reinforces their contribution, not only to information and learning, but also as a ‘third place’ – not home, school or work, but a shared community space.

This joint submission from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA), and the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (ALCC) expresses the view that the removal of parallel importation restrictions is not needed in order to provide creators with further incentive to create and innovate. Australia already has provisions providing high levels of protection, in turn providing ample potential to commercially exploit works. The restrictions are not needed in order to provide local publishers with incentive to invest in creative endeavour.

We strongly support removal of the restrictions upon parallel importation of books. We believe greater competition will lead to an increase in the variety of books available and more competitively priced books, increasing their accessibility for Australians.

This joint submission from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and eight other library associations supports the development of an information infrastructure with libraries as the conduit for a sustainable knowledge economy.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) congratulates the government on developing the draft legislation and, in a timely manner, seeking to ensure that information is managed as a national resource. Improvements in FOI are vital for an informed nation, and expanding digital access will contribute significantly to an effective democracy and a digital nation.

ALIA recommends that to be truly effective further consideration should be given to:

• supporting a national archive of information to ensure long term access (Pandora);
• digitisation of government publications currently produced in paper;
• ensuring information can be found readily, meeting accessibility standards; and
• expanding coverage to include research funded by the Commonwealth.

The Australian Library Journal: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association - Volume 58 No. 1 February 2009

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) supports social inclusion and asserts that all Australians should therefore have access to the resources and services of a public library, regardless of their circumstances. Home library services exist to provide services to users who - through reasons including disability, illness and limited mobility - are unable to access public libraries in person.

These guidelines are intended to be used in establishing, providing and evaluating a home library service of a public library. Parts of these guidelines may also be relevant to other libraries, including special libraries, which provide home-based library services.

The Australian Library Journal: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association - Volume 58 No. 4 November 2009

The Australian Library Journal: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association - Volume 58 No. 3 August 2009

The Australian Library Journal: Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association - Volume 58 No. 2 May 2009

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

Contents: e-Health big picture -- From your convenor -- HLA/HCN Innovation Award (abstracts) -- Job exchange report -- EBSCO product update -- National Broadband Network -- Aurora report -- Online tutorial for nursing students -- Brenda Heagney reflects on 50 years in libraries -- ACEBP closure -- ALIA Special Libraries Advisory Committtee.

Libraries and information services have a fundamental concern in the preservation of information contained in the published and documentary record in order to ensure enduring access. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is committed to the preservation of the published and documentary record in all formats, and to providing enduring access to information.

Its commitment is implemented by fostering and supporting collaboration among libraries and information services to ensure the preservation of, and access to, these records. ALIA supports new applications of technology following extensive testing which offer opportunities and tools for meeting the preservation obligation.

This brief statement highlights the role of libraries and library professionals in contributing to an informed society.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) endorses the vision of a united Australia which respects this land of ours; values the Indigenous heritage; and provides justice and equity for all.

This document identifies four key areas to be addressed by the library and information services sector in providing services to Indigenous peoples, and in managing information relevant to Indigenous cultures and communities.

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

Contents: Future visions for CPD in health librarianship: an Australian perspective -- From your convenor -- Chasing the sun: 2008 update -- Hospital libraries in Greece -- 2008 Australian health reports -- Lady with the lamp: Scutari Hospital -- EBSCO product update -- Vale Alison May Holster -- HLA/HCN Health Informatics Innovation Award -- HLA Executive contact list.

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

Contents: Consumer health information services -- From your convenor -- The health information prescription -- The child health library, WA -- EBSCO product update -- Exemplary health science libraries in USA -- Book review -- Sexual and reproductive health CD project -- Drug info at your library.

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

Contents: Knowledge retention and the departing employee -- From your convenor -- I listen, I learn, iPods -- Relevance of health libraries in the digital age -- Knowledge: use it or lose it -- News from your sponsor: Informit Health collection -- Call for nominations -- ALIA's HLA workforce and education research project 2009.