Library & Information Week activity: Library Crawl

Library Crawl - Thurs 22nd May 2008
The Library Crawl was well attended with 13 participants made up of: library staff, library students and the general public.
4 libraries & Information Centres were visited:
NT Archives; Minerals & Energy; Darwin Public Library & Northern Territory Library.
A 30 minute presentation was given at each venue, ending at Speakers Cafe in Parliament House for a well earned coffee and chat.
The event was very successful, all participants found the presentations extremely interesting and worthwhile.
This was also a great networking opportunity for the library students. It also gave them exposure to the variety of possible work environments waiting for them!

Palmerston meeting

Sarah and staff played host to the Top End Group last night at the Palmerston Library.

It was a good roll up and nice refreshments.

Casuarina Library in good hands.... spiritually...

This morning our library was in good hands when we had 6 Mormon missionaries on our public access computers as well as a Buddhist monk in the library. They all appreciated with good humour the religious coincidence!

National Library Technicians Day at the Darwin Sailing Club

Top End library identities celebrated National Library Technicians Day at the Darwin Sailing Club last night.

Casuarina Library And Information Week Activity

Darwin City Council's Casuarina Library has also been busy with Library And Information Week Activity. On Sunday we had Jasmine Jan give a 4 hour workshop in Pen and Ink Drawing. For information about Jasmine Jan, a well known local see this link


On Monday Meredith Webber gave an all day Romance Writers Workshop.

William McInnes Actor and Author at Nightcliff

Very popular in a booked out session this morning at Darwin City Council's Nightcliff Library was William McInnes.

ALIA Top End Group Meeting – Palmerston City Library

Please join us next week on Wednesday evening (May 21st) for an ALIA Top End Group Meeting – Palmerston City Library – 5pm for 5.30pm (located at Goyder Square on the Boulevard).

Drinks and nibbles will be provided.

Contact either myself (8946 6188) or Stephen Barnett (8930 0202) if you want further information.

Cheers,

Marg

"Flickr and libraries" workshop

Library staff from public, health and academic libraries attended the recent "Flickr and Libraries" workshop held in the training room at CDU.



For those that missed it here are some useful links:
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/Netserv/flickr.ppt
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/Netserv/flickraccountcreation.pdf
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/Netserv/flickraccountsinlibraries.pdf
http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=17624

http://www.up.ac.za/dspace/bitstream/2263/4330/1/Library+2.0+for+Librarians.pdf
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/oates/oates.html

dreaming08 program is now available

Hi everyone

Just in case you weren’t aware, the dreaming08 program is now available at:


www.alia2008.com
There are two keynote speakers each day and concurrent sessions are divided up by stream or theme.


Please note some changes, hopefully minor, could be made to the program in the next few weeks.

Cheers Jayshree