ALLA (WA) News Blog

Of interest to those consulting Western Australian legislation, the Legislation Bill 2018 had its third reading speech yesterday in the Legislative Assembly. The Bill seeks to give official status to the electronic versions of the Government Gazette and other WA legislation! From the explanatory memorandum : This Bill proposes to modernise the processes for publishing WA legislation. It will enact a new Legislation Act that sets out the responsibilities for publishing WA legislation, provides for the official status of both hard copy and electronic versions of WA legislation and gives Parliamentary Counsel’s Office (PCO) a more useful set of editorial powers so that WA legislation can be kept up-to-date, modernised and simplified, and errors in it can be corrected, without the need for the changes to be enacted by Parliament. Important restrictions on the exercise of those editorial powers will remain. The Reprints Act 1984 will be repealed. In line with conferring official s...

We would love for members to join us for a scrumptious buffet breakfast to celebrate the festive season. Where: Miss Maud Restaurant - 97 Murray Street, Perth WA 6000 When: Wednesday 5th December, 2018 Time: From 7:15 am Cost: $10 per person. Payment by cash or email David McDowell for bank details to pay electronically by 23rd November 2018. RSVP: by COB Friday 23rd November 2018 via email to David McDowell .

A full time Library Team Leader position has been advertised on the WA Public Service job site.  The Department of Justice is  seeking a qualified law librarian with considerable knowledge and experience who can make a significant contribution to the delivery of a high level library and information service to judicial and legal officers and to the legal profession in Western Australia. A pool position for librarian has also been advertised.   Applications for both positions close 2 November 2018.

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 .