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#GLAMRmatch 2025 - Registration Now Full
2024-11-26 14:30 - 2025-02-01 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Victoria

Mentoring Mysteries: Unlocking your potential as a future mentor or mentee.
2024-10-04 09:30 - 12:30 | Brisbane Square Lirary, 266 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Australia
Join ALIA Students and New Graduates Group (ALIA SNGG), IFLA Section for Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL), IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) & Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) for Mentoring Mysteries: Unlocking your potential as a future mentor – an associated FLA Information Futures Summit event in Brisbane, Australia.

Mentorship is a powerful tool for personal and professional growth, both for the mentor and the mentee. It fosters an exchange of knowledge, experiences, and perspectives that can lead to transformative outcomes. Whether you are an experienced mentor looking to refine your skills or
someone eager to embark on their mentoring journey, this workshop is designed to cater to your
needs. Learn what makes a good mentee as well as a good mentor.

Hear from presenters who have first-hand experience as a mentor and mentee. Join them as they help you to solve mentoring mysteries that may have stopped you from reaching your full potential.

Guest Speakers:

Tony Sanders, Founder & CEO Skilltype
Jamie McCowan, CEO CAVAL
Gillian Hallum, Consultant, Library and Information Service
Anne Reddacliff, Librarian, State Library of Queensland, Standing Committee Member, IFLA Continuing Professional Development Workplace Learning
Jacqui Lucas, Professional Library Teacher Librarian, ALIA
Rebecca Randell, Hub Team Leader, Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane City Council
CILIP

Even Details:
Cost: FREE

Date: Friday 4th October, 9:30am – 12:30pm AEST
Location:
Brisbane Square Library
266 George St, Brisbane City, Queensland 4000

CSU Sydney + ALIA SNGG Meet up
2024-07-24 16:30 - 17:00 | The Keg & Brew Hotel, 26 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010, Australia
RSVP to Marinka Simon by 5pm on Tuesday, 23rd July masimon@csu.edu.au
Join Charles Sturt University Sydney, School of Information Studies students & staff at the Keg & Brew Hotel. ALIA SNGG members can join this event!
Event Date & Time:
Wednesday, 24th July from 4:30pm
Network on the rooftop of the Keg & Brew Hotel 26 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills,NSW 2010

*BYO money for food & refreshments.

ALIA National Conference 2024
2024-05-06 08:00 - 2024-05-09 19:00 | Adelaide Covention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
RSVP Date: April 29th 2024
The 2024 Theme for ALIA National Conference is Truth and Dare.
The ALIA National Conference provides an opportunity to network with other ALIA Members and GLAMR professionals. Here from t industry leaders and corporate partners on library and information sector trends and topics.
Keynote Speakers include:

Councilor Linda Scott
Dr Marie-Louise Ayres FAHA
Ben Bowen – CEO of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
Shelley Ware
Dr Todd Fernando

Tuesday 7th May: 7:15am – 7:00pm
Wednesday 8th May: 7:10am – 7:00pm Conference Dinner: Celebrating South Australia: 7pm – 11pm
Thursday 9th May: 7:10am – 5:15pm

ALIA SNGG Public Library QandA Zoom with Jane Cowell - 29 Jan 2024
2024-01-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Victoria
Students, graduates, ALIA Members and early-career professionals, are public libraries a place of interest to you in your career?
ALIA Students and New Graduates Group (SNGG) invites you to join our ALIA SNGG Public Library Q&A Zoom chat with ALIA Board President and CEO of Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries, Jane Cowell.
• Find professional development advice on what to do when applying for your first or next public library job
• Discover ways to highlight your volunteering, work experience and practicum placement knowledge
• Discover public library trends and topics to learn about
• Ask all your public library questions
FREE event for ALIA Members and Non-ALIA Members
Add a reflection of the event for your ALIA CPD Hours: 1 hour.
#ALIASNGG_PublicLibraryQandA #ALIASNGG
You will receive the Zoom link by email the morning of the event.

Register to join the ALIA SNGG Public Library QandA Zoom at this ALIA Event Listing link.

ALIA Career Starter Kit - The Interview
2023-11-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Victoria
The Interview
These days interviews can take a variety of forms – for example in person, in a group, or online. They might also involve a task or demonstration on the applicant’s part. In this webinar we look at what to expect, and how to prepare. Practical tips for managing nerves will also be discussed.
RSVP: November 8 https://www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?EventKey=CS2023_4
Price: #ALIAMembers FREE | Non-Members: $100

ALIA VIC: On the Subject of Headings
2023-10-22 14:00 - 16:00 | PMI Victorian History Library, 39 St Edmonds Rd, Praharan, Victoria, 3181
Join ALIA Victoria at the PMI Victorian History Library to learn about the topic on Subject Headings.
Hear talks from special guests:

Clare O’Hanlon who is a user and enthusiast for Homosaurus,
Renate Beilharz from the Schools Catalogue Information Service,
Dorie Kurtz a Cataloguing Policy Specialist at the Library of Congress
Anthony McLaughlin Assistant Director, Descriptive Metadata and Cataloguing who works with the AIATSIS Austlang group.

Plus an ALIA Pin presentation.
Cost: FREE
Will also be streamed on the ALIA VIC YouTube channel.

ALIA Digitisation and Preservation: Engagement
2023-09-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Victoria
ALIA Digitisation and Preservation: Engagement FREE Webinar with speakers

Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia (BHL Aus)
Trove
Wikimedia Australia

Learn from Webinar speakers how to effectively, communicate, connect and collaborate. How to effectively communicate when digitising and cataloguing internal and tips for internal and external engagement.
connect, communicate, and collaborate with others to truly promote the significance of these items. With this challenge in mind, the ALIA Digitisation and Preservation group will be holding a live webinar on Wednesday 13th of September at 1 pm AEST. We will have the privilege of listening to speakers from Trove, Wikimedia, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library on internal and external engagement for digitised collections.

RSVP Date by 13th September
1 CPD Hour

ALIA Career Starter Kit - The Written Application
2023-09-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Victoria
Writing job applications is a daunting task. In this webinar we look at the reality of the process from the employers’ end – what are they looking for and how is the process managed? We look at how you can address their needs more keenly in your written application utilising widely used techniques such as CAR / STAR, and we consider a variety of approaches that can make you the solution to their problems. RSVP Date: September 4th. https://www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?EventKey=CS2023_3

Health Information for Multicultural Communities
2023-08-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Victoria
When
Friday 25 August 2023 11:00am – 12:00pm Canberra Time AEST via Zoom
This is a free event.
Speakers/Presenters
Carmela Ieracitano Pitt
Multilingual Library & Resource Coordinator
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health

Gayathri (Gaya) Dharmagesan
Senior Project Officer
NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (MHCS)
Kay Pisel
Library Customer Service Team Leader – Home Lib Sv
City of Newcastle Creative & Community Services

Meet Your Professional Association
2023-07-27 18:00 - 18:45 | Victoria
Meet your Professional Association.

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance – Global (RIMPA)
Australian Society of Archivists (ASA)

Speakers
Trish Hepworth – Director of Policy and Research, ALIA
Anne Cornish – Chief Executive Office, RIMPA
Nicola Laurent – President, ASA
Cost: Free Zoom
RSVP:
https://www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?EventKey=M27723

ALIA Career Starter Kit - Identifying Opportunity
2023-07-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Victoria
This ALIA Career Starter Kit next event continues the first webinar discussion on job roles and descriptions.
In this webinar learn how to identify job opportunities and career pathways. A discussion on leveraging transferable skills will be included.
RSVP Close date to register is July 3rd via https://www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?EventKey=CS2023
