ALIA SNGG Team Update.

We say goodbye and thank Emma Thompson & Will Power for their contribution to ALIA SNGG Team. We wish you the best on your Library pathways.

#GLAMRmatch 2025: What You Are Looking For Is In GLAMR.

On Tuesday, 26th November we opened up our Expressions Of Interest to JotForm to join #GLAMRmatch 2025.

In 2-weeks and 1 day our #GLAMRmatch Protégé spots filled. Our #GLAMRmatch Leader fillled up on the 18th of December.

What is new for #GLAMRmatch 2025?

• We have replaced our Mentor and Mentee titles with Leader and Protege.
• Non-Members of ALIA pay $22 to join
• ALIA Members Professional (Associate/Graduate, Library Technician) or General (Student) can join #GLAMRmatch 2025 for FREE.

Who is an ALIA Member?

Professional (Associate/Graduate, Library Technician) or General (Student)

Who is a Non-Member?

Non -ALIA Member LIS Student from the ALIA Accredited Course list, Non-ALIA Member LIS Graduate, Established Professional or Changing Sector Professional.

Am I a #GLAMRmatch Leader or Protege?

A #GLAMRmatch Leader:

ALIA Member (Established Professional, Mid-Career Professional, Late-Career Professional).

Non-Member (Established Professional, Mid-Career Professional, Late-Career Professional)

A #GLAMRmatch Protégé :

ALIA Member (Student, Associate/Graduate)

Non-Member:

LIS Students from an ALIA Accredited Course, Associate/Graduate, Changing Career Professional

#GLAMRmatch is ALIA SNGG’s annual event designed to connect Students and Graduates to Established Professionals from the GLAMR (Gallery, Library, Archives, Museum & Records Management) Sector over a 1-hour one-on-one physical or online meeting.

Start building your GLAMR networks. Add answers to your library questions. Add to your Active Professionalism by learning skills & advice for your library pathway.

ALIA Members are you interested in joining ALIA SNGG Social Media Team?

*Instagram & WordPress Blog teams are full.

ALIA Members, aplications for ALIA Resume Review Service will be closing over the holiday break. We will be accepting Resume Review requests in January from Monday, 6th January 2025.

You can now view the Draft Program for ALIA Information Online 2025 – Transformation & Disruption.

Interested in attending? Register via this the ALIA Information Online Event link.

Cost:

Members $400 | Non-Members $500| Institution  5 attendees $1800 | Institution 10 attendees $3500 | Unlimited $6000

When  is this on?

Tuesday 18th March – 20th March

Location: Online via Zoom 

Time Zoom begins: 9am AEDT

Program Summary:

Day 1: Tuesday, 18th March – Indigenous Knowledges (Program highlights Dialogue Session: Libraries and their Intersection with Indigenous Knowledges held on 13th October 2024).

Day 2: Wednesday, 19th March – Greening GLAMR

• 10:45 AM (AEDT) Presentation by Morgan Hills, Georges River Libraries – Library of Things
• 1:45 PM (AEDT) Sustainability at ALIA Ligtning Talk, by Cathie Warburton, ALIA
• 2:40 PM (AEDT) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Curtin’s Multi-Faceted Approach to Achiving These Goals  Presentation by Jayne Cleave, Curtin University

Day 3: Thursday, 20th March – AI

• 10:30 AM (AEDT) Digital Sisters: AI for Good Research, Presentation by Jess Wilson, Good Things Foundation 
• 11:15 AM (AEDT) Top 10 Tips for Upskilling and Preparing You and Your Team to Implement GenAI Tools Presentation by Lisa Paul, Ashurst
• 2:45 PM (AEDT) Evaluating AI Tools for Enhanced Access to the State Library of Queensland’s Film Collection Presentation by Jeff Williams, Australian Centre for the Moving Image,
  and Rachel Merrick, State Library of Queensland.

Download the Draft Program for more info.

The #NSS2025 book has been announced!

What is the book?
The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkle. Published in 2024. Illustrated by Danny Snell.

When: Wednesday, 21st May 2025 at 12pm (AEST)

Subscribe to ALIA CYS Scoop Newsletter for an interview from Gabby Cundy with The ‘Truck Cat’ illustrator Danny Snell. 

Are you interested in learning Cataloguing skills?

ALIA Training for ‘Cataloguing for Practitioners‘ is open. This is an online 6 week course provided by TAFE NSW, RTO 90003.  After completing the course, you will receive an official academic transcript from TAFE NSW, RTO 90003, showing you have met the unit’s requirements (BSBINS516 – Undertake cataloguing activities).

Learn to identify and apply the national and international standards for constructing a catalogue record using RDA, ISBD and MARC.

Cost : $550 (Members) – $730 (Non-members)

Course from: Tuesday, 04 March 2025 to
Monday, 14 April 2025

RSVP by 13th October, 2025.

ALIA CPD Hours: 30

RSVP by

Register for Cataloguing for Practitioners via the ALIA Events page.

ALIA Training – Cataloguing for beginners.

Learn:

• How to create a catalogue record
• Knowledge to identify the types of information needed to create a catalogue record.
• About cataloguing standards for Resource Description and Access (RDA), International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), and MARC (machine-readable cataloguing) format of bibliographic data.

ALIA Training for Cataloguing for beginners is a 4-week online course provided by TAFE NSW.

Course from: Tuesday, 29 July 2025 to
Monday, 25 August 2025

Cost:

$460 (Members) – $610 (Non-members)

ALIA CPD Hours: 20

Register for Cataloguing for beginners via the ALIA Events page.

RSVP by 21st July, 2025

Join Tropic ALIA for their ‘Nightmare Before Bookmas’ event at Canto Kitchen & Bar at James Cook University, Townsville Campus.

When: Friday 13th December from 5pm -7pm.

This is a self-pay event. Cash bar & individual tabs for food and drinks are available at Canto Kitchen & Bar.

• Network with fellow ALIA Members 
• Dress up as your best Tim Burton-ish holiday character
• Swap a book in the book exchange

The ALIA SNGG Team & Social Media Teams (Facebook, Instagram, X and WordPress Blog) are on a holiday break. We will be back in the New Year from Monday, 6th January, 2025.

Happy Holidays

– ALIA SNGG Team

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