ALLA (WA) News Blog

The Australian Libraries Copyright Committee is offering training sessions in Perth on Monday, 27 July. The sessions are free to to member organisations and their employees - ALIA, NSLA, CAUL, NLA, AGLIN, NAA, CAARA and Aust Soc Archivists ( note: ALLA is not included ). Each half day session costs $60 for non-members. For more details and registration information, visit the ALCC website . Space is limited, so don't delay!

The following announcement was distributed on various mailing lists. Apologies for cross-posting. On 2-5 February 2016 the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Australia will host two consecutive intellectual property conferences in the historic and vibrant port city of Fremantle Western Australia: Intellectual Property Academics Conference (2-4 February 2016) Information Environmentalism Conference (4-5 February 2016) The two conferences will likely overlap to some extent. The call for abstracts for both conferences can be found at the conference website . The call will remain open until 30 September 2015. Further details about each conference, including costs and accommodation, will be forthcoming on the website over the next few months. Conference organising committee: Robert Cunningham Michael Blakeney, Jani McCutcheon and Ken Shao of UWA Note that librarians are among those who are encouraged to submit abstracts for the Information Environmentalism Con...

Hear the CALL ALLA(WA) Presents a Conference Wrap-Up Come join us as Alice Hewitt shares some of the highlights of the May 2015 CALL/ACBD Conference in Moncton, New Brunswick.  This session will be followed by light refreshments and a tour of the new Legal Aid Library. When: 4.30pm , Tuesday 7 th July Where: Legal Aid, Ground Floor, 32 St Georges Terrace Meet on the ground floor to be escorted up. RSVP by Friday 3 rd July to Luise Crisafulli, lcrisafulli@chambers. francisburt.com.au

Posted on behalf of The One Umbrella recruiters Research Librarian - Perth Twelve Month Contract Leading International Law Firm · Part Time Hours Considered  This leading international law firm is seeking a Librarian with excellent reference and research skills to provide the information needs of its legal staff in its Perth office, as well as to its colleagues in the Asia Pacific region of Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. You will be adept at using a range of subscription, legal and business research databases and resources to provide complex and solutions-focussed research; and practised at delivering training in the use of these resources across a range of legal research topics, either one on one, or to a group. To be considered for this opportunity, you will need: Excellent reference and research skills with solid experience within a legal library environment Exceptional knowledge and understanding of a wide range of legal and business research databases a...

It's the time of year again - renewals for ALLA membership are now due. Memberships for the 2015-2016 financial year will remain at the current rate. Please complete the downloadable membership application/renewal form and email it to membership@alla.asn.au If you are an ALLA member who has not received a membership renewal by June 2015, please email membership@alla.asn.au with your current contact details. Please note: honorary life members will still need to renew their memberships yearly to ensure their details are kept up to date. Membership Renewals Due By 30 June 2015. For new members wishing to join ALLA, details of member benefits and how to join are available from the ALLA website .

Sarah Glassmeyer of the Slaw blog recently proposed a list of ' technology' skills and concepts that law professors (and legal professionals) should master or at least understand. Ostensibly an attempt to make the broad term 'technology' more concrete, the list includes skills in a range of areas including social media communication tools, presentation programs (with the corollary of finding free-to-use images), eDiscovery, and virtual law offices. A follow up post in the SlawTips column adds a few more mechanics like understanding URLs and using advanced search functions. Click on the posts for more information. Both are handy for librarians to guide their personal professional development. More importantly, though, the lists beg the question: what role, if any, do librarians and information professionals have in ensuring that students, academics, and practitioners develop these essential skills? Let us know in the comments if you, as an information professional...

Hogan Lovells is an international law firm opening offices in both Perth and Sydney. An opportunity exists for an experienced senior Law Librarian to undertake a short-term project to recommend and source relevant online databases, electronic subscriptions and titles for print collections. Electronic resources would need to be networked to both offices. Note – this is a temporary position only and the position can be located in either Perth or Sydney. The successful candidate should have the following: experience as a professional librarian in a law library; subscription management experience, including the negotiation of electronic licences and costs with publishers; excellent research and reference skills and the ability to identify the essential resources required by different legal practice groups; excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; and relevant tertiary qualifications and eligibility for professional membership to the Australian Library and Information ...

Good news for those who like parliamentary press releases. Recent posts through the Trove forum and the ALLA-ANZ mailing list let us know the good news: "The Trove Team has continued to expand Australian political history coverage in Trove with the inclusion of over 200,000 press releases from members of the Australian Federal Parliament, thanks to the Australian Parliamentary Library. For many years the Parliamentary Library has been collecting and digitising press releases issued by federal politicians. The Library has agreed to Trove harvesting this information from its databases. The majority of press releases date from the 1990s to today, with a smattering of earlier documents from 1889 onwards." "Interested in the radio personalities politicians are talking to? You will also find the Parliamentary Library's transcripts of more than 13,000 radio broadcasts in the Music, Sound and Video zone, including a 1975 ABC AM interview with Gough Whitlam and Vin...

Our friends over at ALLAWest and InfoSci@ECU cordially invite you to attend Reading Practices in a Digital World Lecture by Dr. Vivian Howard (Dalhousie University, Canada) This event is a unique opportunity to learn from a visiting academic whose research focuses on literacy and young people. Light refreshments will be provided. D ate : Thursday 25 June Time: 5:30 for 6pm Cost: Free Venue: State Library Theatre RSVP by 23 June here . Reading Practices in a Digital World: Two Case Studies One Book, One Community (OBOC) programs represent an intersection of traditional forms of reading and reading practices with communication technologies of the twenty-first century. OBOCs aim to create community through book-related interactions. In particular, digital technologies can be used to unite geographically disparate people in ephemeral communities – i.e., people who are not necessarily local to one another – through the practice of shared reading. Begun in 2012, One Book Nov...

This was originally sent through the WAIN mailing list. Dear colleagues The Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) seeks your input to assist the Committee to understand the knowledge and experience of practitioners and managers within the Australian library community, to ascertain topics of interest and concern, and to explore ways to build a strong community of practice within the Australian resource description community. ACOC has created a survey seeking feedback from people working in library and information services generally, but particularly from practitioners and managers involved with resource description. The information gathered in this survey will assist ACOC to plan future outreach, events and programs. A summary of the survey results will be posted on the ACOC website: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VFW8HDW The survey should take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete, and will remain open until COB Monday 8 June. The survey contains some questions that require ...