May 2025 Monthly Newsletter
A new month has arrived. This month the ALIA SNGG Team celebrate National Volunteer Week, and the incredible past and current volunteers of ALIA SNGG. Further celebrating all GLAMR volunteers for their contribution both physical and virtual across Australia.
Graduates and Students register your spot at ALIA SNGG and ALIA VIC’s Library Speed Dating Event at PMI Victorian History Library on Sunday, 27th July from 2pm -4pm AEST.
Sit and ask questions in a three minutes chat with experienced librarians and GLAMRous people from across the library sector.
The event will operate like speed dating with the participants rotating around the professionals, getting to spend 3 minutes with each of them. There will also be informal networking with ALIAVic and ALIA SNGG committee members and afternoon tea as you await your turn.
*This is not a Resume/CV review service or job offers event.
Who will be there on the day?
Kyleigh Langrick: Coordinator Children and Young People Library Services, Vision Australia
Michael Barry: ALIA Vic and Library Technician Camberwell Primary School and Fitzroy North Primary School
Dr Romany Manuel: Research Librarian ACER/ Melbourne Art Library
Nicole McGrath: Archivist Museums Victoria
Joey Chung: ALIA Multicultural Group and Website and Systems Homesglen Institute
Nicole Kearney: Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia
Heather McKay: Librarian Naarm Ngargu Library City of Melbourne
Mare Maticevski: Senior Co-ordinator Monographs and Digital Collections RMIT University
Tim Gillis-Jones: Library Technology Team Leader City of Monash
Renee Naylor: Education and Communications Coordinator Law Library of Victoria.
Event Details:
Sunday, 27 July 2025
2:00pm – 4:00pm AEST
Location:
PMI Victorian History Library Inc.
39 St Edmonds Rd
Prahran, VIC 3181
Cost:
ALIA Member– $10
ALIA Student – $5
Non-member – $22
Are you on ALIA SNGG’s M365 elist, and need to update or remove your work, study or personal email details?
Please email the ALIA SNGG team at sngg@alia.org.au
GLAMRmatch25 Reflections
GLAMRmatch has finished for another year, but fear not it will be back again in 2026!
Are you an ALIA Member, who joined as a GLAMRmatch Protege or Leader? The ALIA SNGG would love to hear from you.
Share your #GLAMRmatch25 reflections with ALIA SNGG for a post on our ALIA Students and New Graduates Group WordPress blog.
Interested?
Please share your #GLAMRmatch25 reflection as a Word Document and email the team at alianewgraduatesgroup@gmail.com
ALIA SNGG Book Club
Join ALIA SNGG Book Club on Facebook for our May – June read-a-long of Ash Barty’s My Dream Time.
Share a photo of the cover of your book, e-audiobook or e-book with the group in the book club chat.
ALIA SNGG will be sharing photos with The Truck Cat #LibraryStorytime book.
Library Information Week 2025
ALIA will be celebrating Library and Information Week aka #LIW2025 from 25 July – 3rd August. The theme for 2025 is #ToReadOrNotToRead.
New Librarians' Symposium XI - Connection
The New Librarians Symposium NLSXI will be on Saturday, 6th September.
The 2025 theme is: Connected.
NLSXI is a opportunity for students and new professionals to network.
Time: 10am – 5pm AEST
Location: via Zoom
Cost: ALIA Members $150 |Non-Members $200
ALIA CPD Scheme Hours: 7.50
RSVP by 13th May.
Join ALIA Disability and ANDPA (he Alliance for Neurodiversity and Disability in GLAMR Professions Australia) for a collab ‘Navigating mental health for professionals in the GLAMR industry‘ Zoom discussion.
Speaker:
Priscilla Jaya from Beyond Blue.
Date: Wednesday, 14th May | Time: 12pm – 1pm AEST
Cost: ALIA Members $FREE| Non-Members $22
Location: via Zoom
Explore ALIA Disability’s WordPress Blog Resources page to catch up on past webinars for your ALIA CPD Scheme hours.
ALIA South Coast - GLAMAWARRA 4.0
Join ALIA South Coast at GLAMAWARRA 4.0 at Shellharbour City Libraries Auditorium on Friday, June 20th from 9:30am – 4:30pm AEST.
Discover talks from GLAM speakers from the Illawarra, South Coast and Southern Highlands!
Details:
Cost: ALIA Members $10 | Non-Members $22
Date and Time:
Friday, June 20th from 9:30am – 4:30pm AEST
Location:
Shellharbour City Libraries Auditorium
76 Cygnet Avenue (corner of Cygnet and College Avenue)
Shellharbour, NSW, 2529
ALIA GLAMR Top End
RSVP Wednesday, 14th May
Join GLAM Top End Group for a tour of Danala Library at Charles Darwin University.
Cost: ALIA Members/Non-Members: FREE Event
Date/Time: Thursday 15th May from 5pm -6:30pm AEST
ALIA Members from Victoria, join ALIA Vic at their first Victorian Library and Information Awards.
Nominate yourself or a fellow Victorian library and information profession, or professional research in Victoria, who is an ALIA Member, who has made a significant contribution and positive impact to the Library and Information Service.
Nominations are open May 5th.
Nominations for the F.A. Sharr Award are open!
To be eligible for the award nominees must be:
- Currently living in Western Australia
- Graduated from an ALIA accredited course in the last four years. The 2024 award is open to those who graduated on or after 1 January 2021.
- Personal Member of ALIA
Self nomination and Nomination by a colleage available.
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