ALLA (WA) News Blog

Sunil Saale, Minter Ellison's Head of Cyber and Information Security, presented a lunch time seminar on cybersecurity on the 10th of August 2018 - a recording of that seminar is now available for ALLA members to access on the ALLA National website .

ALLA (WA) and our sponsor BarNet Jade invites you to the 2018 Spring Icebreaker. During this event we will hear from a few attendees of the 2018 ALLA conference in Darwin. Where: The George (London Room) -216 St Georges Terrace, Perth When: Wednesday 12th September 2018 Time: 5:30 - 8.00 pm Cost: $10 for members / $20 non-members. Payment by cash or email David McDowell for bank details to pay electronically by 5th September. Cost includes 6 canapes per person. Drinks will be available for purchase but not included in cost. Please RSVP by COB Thursday 6th September 2018 to David McDowell: dmcdowell@jacmac.com.au 

Where: Geographe room, State Library of Western Australia When: 29th September 2018 Registrations from 10.30am, Workshop from 11am -12.30pm. To register please use the form here. Cost: Gold coin donation. Places are limited! Why: This workshop will help LIS professionals identify skills they already have and how they can transfer these skills to the job they aspire to have - in a fun way! Librarians and Dragons uses gamification to promote professional development for librarians, and to encourage a different way of thinking about the skills that we can bring to the table to enter the industry or progress within it. It brings together ideas and concepts from games, such as Dungeons and Dragons and escape rooms, to offer an alternative way of viewing our professional development. The workshop will take participants on a quest through a library experience, using pre-developed characters, before tasking everyone to develop their own character profiles. The profiles foc...

Melbourne-based Legal recruitment firm Gatehouse Legal has released a its 2018-2019 Private Practice/Australia Salary Guide , with separate documents for private practice earnings and legal support professionals. The Legal and Office support guide shows earnings ranges for legal receptionists, legal secretaries, paralegals, senior conveyancers, mailroom clerks, administration assistants, payroll officers, account managers, finance directors, etc. but does not include any information about pay rates for law librarians or other information professional categories. The guides can be obtained from Gatehouse Legal's website .