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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.

ALIA 2003 Library Technician Dunn & Wilson Scholarship, Lothar von Retzlaff AssDipAppSc(LT) ALIATec

This study was made possible through the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship and supported by the Australian Library & Information Association (ALIA).

This paper explores e-commerce to determine how developments in technology, promotion and marketing in the commercial arena may be adapted for libraries, so they can utilise services and create infrastructure to ensure the use of the internet benefits libraries in maintaining future funding, relevance and existence.

Records management guidelines of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).

This report is an outcome of a feasibility study carried out during October–December 2001 by the Australian Council for Educational Research. The focus of the study was the proposal to develop a national coalition for information literacy advocacy and it was carried out on behalf of the Australian Library and Information Association, the National Library of Australia and the National Office for the Information Economy.

The main purpose of the study was to develop a strategic framework for a broad-based national coalition ‘to promote and advance the integration of information literacy into the community, business, public library, school and tertiary education programs and to ensure an awareness of information literacy for lifelong learning’.

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) statement on the right of all library users to access information, materials, content and services.

Libraries and information services proactively promote and facilitate responsible access to quality networked information for all, including children and young people. They enable library users to learn to use the internet and electronic information efficiently and effectively.

Contents: Financing the heritage of the Royal District Nursing Service; The future of health librarianship in Australia; MediText; Report of the 2000 Cochrane Library survey. National Executive in Victoria: David Lloyd, Veronica Delafosse, Lorena Smirneos, Gabby Fennessy.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

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.

9th Specials, Health and Law Libraries Conference, 26–29 August 2001 Melbourne: Rivers of Knowledge

Abstract:

The funding relationship between universities and their teaching hospitals is fundamental to the developmentof the larger teaching hospital libraries. Such funding therefore affects the quality of library service touniversity staff and students in teaching hospitals and flows on to influence hospital library development generally throughout Australia. Very little is known nationally about this relationship, and so an extensive study of CAUL libraries was undertaken across Australia in 1993, 1995 (follow-up only) and 2000 byMonash University Library and Southern Health Library Service, Melbourne with additional comments tobring the study current to June 2001. The questions posed in the survey included: the nature of funding provided; whether such funding was provided by university faculty, library or both; any formal agreements between universities and their teaching hospital libraries; the nature of what was purchased with the funds provided; the details of any on-site access by teaching hospitals to university databases. The results of these surveys are given in detail, indicating that: funding is provided by universities around Australia; both university libraries and faculties provide funding; curiously, most universities do not have formal agreementswith their teaching hospitals; funding is spent on a variety of resources and staff; access is generally provided to University electronic resources for teaching hospital libraries. A brief comparison is offered between the results of the 1993 and 2000 surveys. It is hoped that this study will provide the background of information needed for rational planning and decision-making by university and hospital library staff and administrators in developing teaching hospital libraries in Australia.

ALIA National Library and Information Technicians Symposium, 2001Tasmania

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.

Contents: Health Libraries Australia: new group endorsed by ALIA; ALIA Group application form; reports from portfolio holders on information policy, benchmarking, evidence based healthcare; consortia; summaries from Queensland, Western Australia, ACT, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria. National Executive: Melanie Kammermann (Convenor), Patrick O'Connor (Secretary), Veronica Delafosse (Treasurer).

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Riding the wave: the Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals; Is there a future for the Health Libraries Section in the new ALIA?; Research output from paediatric hospitals, 1993-1996; Library service to community-based health professionals at Southern Health, Melbourne; Western Australian union list of journals to go on the Web; Preparing for Evidence Based Practice Seminar.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Draft Standards for Australian health libraries; Hospital-based EBM training programme; ALIA restructure: a WA Section proposal; Treasurer's report to AGM 24th August 1999; Cochrane News.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Health libraries news and views - National Executive now in Victoria; analysis of ALIA HLS membership; Health Libraries brochure now available; Anne Harrison award; ALIA Divisional reporting to General Council, Health Libraries Section - key issues for the section in 1999, division objectives for 1999, activities planned for 1999; Conference update; National Executive: Stephen Due, Veronica Delafosse, David Lloyd, Lorena Smirneos, Helen Stanton, Gabby Fennessy.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: ALIA branches, sections and the proposed restructure; Health Libraries Section future; making websites user-focussed; focus session on evidence-based health care; Minutes and President's Report, Annual General Meeting, 24th August 1999, Hobart; stress management attitude part 2; Anne Harrison Award 1999: Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals, Adam Clark; National Executive in Victoria: Stephen Due, Veronica Delafosse, Helen Stanton, Lorena Smirneos, David Lloyd, Gabby Fennessy.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: GST Goods and Services Tax facts for health librarians; CASP Critical Appraisal Skills Programme; Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project; stress management attitude part 1; CPD Continuing Professional Development; ICML International Congress on Medical Librarianship, London, 2000, update; National Executive in Victoria: Stephen Due, Veronica Delafosse, Helen Stanton, Lorena Smirneos, David Lloyd, Gabby Fennessy.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

ALIA 1999 Library Technician Dunn & Wilson Scholarship, Meredith Martinelli Bsc(LT) ALIATec

This study was made possible through the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship and supported by the Australian Library & Information Association (ALIA).

The proposal offered to develop a framework for skills assessment and an identification of alternate career pathways where library technicians could utilise the skills, knowledge and expertise developed through formal training and on the job experiences. The intention of the study was to produce a reference tool for library technicians to aid them in the identification of skills and knowledge, and the range of roles that could be considered.

Contents: Visions of the future: reflections on the past report on the centennial meeting of the Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 23-27 May 1998 by Rolf Schafer and Walter McGrath; news from the sections: ACT - information gateway, SA - nomination of Nereda Wilkinson for Merit Award; HealthWIZ Online: new health information library on the Net; online health services unite; National Guidelines for Hospital Libraries; National Executive: Tricia Scolaro, Cheryl Hamill, Anne Batt, Gillian McCardle.

Original document in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Micromedex; The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme; AGM Minutes and Treasurer's Report 27th October 1998; National Executive: Tricia Scolaro, Cheryl Hamill, Anne Batt, Gillian McCardle.

Original document in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: ERIN, Informit Online and AUSThealth; The National Library of Australia and medical journals by Stephen Due; Executive Planning Committee report for 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians' Conference Strait to the Future 22-26 August 1999; National Executive: Tricia Scolaro, Cheryl Hamill, Anne Batt, Gillian McCardle.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Conference update; notes from the President - national guidelines for hospital libraries; holdings of biomedical serials in Australian libraries; retirement of June Rider Jones; Anne Harrison award; National Executive: Tricia Scolaro, Cheryl Hamill, Anne Batt, Gillian McCardle.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

The Nancy Booker Honour Lecture was instituted by the NSW Group of the Children's and Youth Services as a forum for children's and youth librarians and others concerned with the promotion of high quality children's literature and professional development in the field of children's and youth librarianship.

The 1998 Nancy Booker Honour Lecture was presented by children's librarian Heather Fisher. She was also the recipient of the Marjorie Cotton Award and the ALIA study grant.

This Recognition Strategy is designed to provide a national process and guidelines for recognising the current knowledge and skills of people working in, or proposing to enter the library industry.

It provides an overall framework which encompasses a number of models or options that can be further adapted for use in library workplaces or in training situations. As it is based on assessment against the Library Industry Competency Standards at levels A-D, it provides a common basis against which to benchmark the learning that takes place in many different situations.

ALIA 1997 Library Technician Dunn & Wilson Scholarship, Lorraine Denny LibT ALIATec

This study was made possible through the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship and supported by the Australian Library & Information Association (ALIA), with sponsorship from LJ Cullen Bookbinders NSW, and Apollo-Moon Bookbinders Victoria.

This research project focused on examining job descriptions from an organisational perspective. The objectives of the project were to:

• determine the current practice of the role of job descriptions in Australian libraries, using Library Technicians as a sample group;
• collate examples of Library Technician job descriptions to determine the type of information contained in them;
• identify best practice in the design, content and uses of job descriptions; and
• present recommendations to the library profession which would aid them in developing effective job descriptions that are current, relevant, accurate and useful.

This Recognition Strategy is designed to provide a national process and guidelines for recognising the current knowledge and skills of people working in, or proposing to enter the library industry.

It provides an overall framework which encompasses a number of models or options that can be further adapted for use in library workplaces or in training situations. As it is based on assessment against the Library Industry Competency Standards at levels A-D, it provides a common basis against which to benchmark the learning that takes place in many different situations.

This Recognition Strategy is designed to provide a national process and guidelines for recognising the current knowledge and skills of people working in, or proposing to enter the library industry.

It provides an overall framework which encompasses a number of models or options that can be further adapted for use in library workplaces or in training situations. As it is based on assessment against the Library Industry Competency Standards at levels A-D, it provides a common basis against which to benchmark the learning that takes place in many different situations.

Contents: On the edge - 7th Asian Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians' Conference and Exhibition, 12-16 October 1997, Perth, WA; Health library services in Victoria by Stephen Due and Melanie Kammermann; Tasmanian news; National Executive: Cheryl Hamill, Robyn Hull, Anne Batt, Gillian McCardle.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Goodbye HELO-L, hello ALIAHealth by Cheryl Hamill; Cairns Base Hospital Library holds open day by Jan Weaver; public/private partnership update news; Tasmanian news by Kathy Saurine; National Executive: Tricia Scolaro, Cheryl Hamill, Anne Batt, Gillian McCardle.

Original document held in ALIA House, Canberra.

Contents: Report on the From the Edge Conference, Perth, October 1997 by Angela Smith; from the President - conference report; Health Communications Network: NSW clinicians go on-line; minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 15 October 1997; proposal for the ALIA Health Libraries Section to host 9ICML by Virginia Walsh; National Executive: Tricia Scolaro, Robyn Hull, Anne Batt, Gillian McCardle.

Original documents held in ALIA House, Canberra.

The title of this guide is Recognition exempler using the library industry competency standards.

This Recognition Strategy is designed to provide a national process and guidelines for recognising the current knowledge and skills of people working in, or proposing to enter the library industry.

It provides an overall framework which encompasses a number of models or options that can be further adapted for use in library workplaces or in training situations. As it is based on assessment against the Library Industry Competency Standards at levels A-D, it provides a common basis against which to benchmark the learning that takes place in many different situations.

This title of this guide is Recognition exemplar using modules in the Diploma of Library and Information Studies.

This Recognition Strategy is designed to provide a national process and guidelines for recognising the current knowledge and skills of people working in, or proposing to enter the library industry.

It provides an overall framework which encompasses a number of models or options that can be further adapted for use in library workplaces or in training situations. As it is based on assessment against the Library Industry Competency Standards at levels A-D, it provides a common basis against which to benchmark the learning that takes place in many different situations.