ALLA (WA) News Blog

Ever wondered what goes on within the walls of Parliament Library?  Come and learn about Bills, Hansard, retrieving EMs, investigating committee papers and much more in the 1 st ALLA (WA) event of 2018! This event will include a tour of the Parliamentary Library, followed by morning tea and a tour of Parliament House and the Chambers. When: Wednesday 7 th February, 2018,  9am – 11.30am Where: Parliament House main entrance RSVP to Alice Hewitt – alice.hewitt@cdpp.gov.au by Friday 2 nd February, 2018. Please confirm if you are intending to attend the tour of Parliament House (start 11am). ALLA (WA) thanks the WA Parliamentary Library for hosting this event.  More information on Parliament, including what you can and cannot bring on the tour.

Worried about your library and your job? Despite frequent gloomy predictions, the demise of the library sector hasn’t happened – and as one article reveals, sloppy research can be the cause of the faulty prediction. Libraries and Librarians Aren't About to Disappear A widely shared article declaring libraries and archives to be among the fastest-declining industries in America has been debunked. Takeaway message – make sure you have all the information before extrapolating …. The Extinction of Libraries: Why the Predictions aren’t Coming True While this article is about public libraries, and how, despite predictions that they will wither and die, they are still around and generally growing, there is a message that is relevant to all libraries: The key to continued support of libraries is engagement equals ownership. As humans we have an innate need to feel wanted and valued, to know that what we say matters. When libraries engage communities by asking for their...

The Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ITTIG) is calling-for-paper (abstract only) for participation in the LAW VIA THE INTERNET CONFERENCE 2018 , to be held 11-12 October 2018, in Florence, Italy.   All details of the call for papers are available here .