ALIA Top End AGM 2014

It’s that time of year again! The ALIA Top End will be running its Annual General Meeting for 2014. Refreshments will be served at the meeting and all are welcome to attend.

When: 13 November 2014 at 5:30pm

Where: Casuarina Public Library Community Room

What will happen in the meeting?

Come and listen to the winners of the 2014 ALIA NT Recognition Award,  The Paige & Dewey Buddy Libraries Membership Drive, tell you about their interesting project, and meet Paige and Dewey in person! For more details see full article in the September issue of Incite (p. 33 )

Generally the AGM will involve the nomination and election to the ALIA Top End Committee. There will also be a discussion over ideas and planning for the next year of events. Please bring any ideas to the AGM to share. 2015 looks like an exciting year with enjoyable events such as the Library and Information Week Dinner, Garden Party and professional development workshops.

Nominations:

Some existing committee remembers will be continuing while others will be retiring. Nominations are invited for convenor and committee members. If you are interested in being involved in the group committee please contact Jayshree Mamtora [Jayshree.Mamtora@alia.org.au].

What does it mean if I am a part of the committee?

Committee meeting are held every two months and the committee focuses on running events for the Top End including PD sessions, social events and planning. Being a part of the committee is a great way to meet people and become a part of a professional community while also contributing to the development of the profession.

LIS student or new graduate?

Are you an LIS student or new graduate living in the NT or near the NT border? If so, the ALIA NT Students and New Graduates Group (NT SNGG) would love to hear from you!

The ALIA NT SNGG aims to foster a friendly and supportive online community for anyone who is either studying or working/looking for work as a new graduate in the Library and Information sector in the Northern Territory. While we are primarily an online group, we also aim to complement and support the local activities of the other NT-based ALIA groups - ALIA Red Centre and ALIA Top End.

The ALIA NT SNGG Facebook is at: www.facebook.com/ALIA.NT.SNGG

For further information, please contact: alex.williams@cdu.edu.au
 

Regards,

Alex

NT Regional Coordinator

ALIA Students and New Graduates

Why join ALIA Top End Committee?

With the ALIA Top End AGM close approaching (13 November) this is a good time to remind people about the not only to join ALIA but consider joining the ALIA Top End Committee.

Below Claire Nield from the Police Fire and Emergency Services Library explains the reasons why she joined ALIA:

Why did I join ALIA?

I work in a profession that is its own worst enemy at times and for many years I railed against that as loudly and probably as obnoxiously as I could.  But then I made a Decision (yes with a capital D). The following quote from Maya Angelou (poet, author and civil rights activist) describes the ‘D’ moment perfectly:

‘If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.’

I have been an ALIA member for a while; my input ‘tokenistic’ at the most but in response to my  light bulb moment I joined the ALIA committee.

We as a profession need to be professional – ALIA’s PD scheme is a really key initiative to ensure our skills and knowledges are state of the art and are recognised but we as professionals need to model best practice in our practice, share our stories, our ways of doing, our successes and failures so we can stop shooting ourselves in the foot and increasingly move towards significantly and meaningfully driving the quality of our future.

ALIA as a professional association has worked very hard on its relevance and its role as professional support but I feel over the last few years it has taken it to a new level and is driving recognition and change and I’m really glad to be part of that process. By the way if that means sometimes I have to sit through committee meetings when I’d prefer to be sitting with a glass of wine on my balcony, well I have to; because I want to contribute meaningfully to the quality of my future, our future.

the quote from Maya Angelou was found on the 14/7/14 at http://creatingminds.org/quotes/change.htm

NT NAC/Annual Member Forum 7 October 5pm

Hi everyone

I am really pleased to announce that Damian Lodge, ALIA President, will be in Darwin, 7 October to chair the annual NT NAC (National Advisory Congress) / Annual Member Forum meeting.

ALIA's annual NAC meetings are a great opportunity for members to have a say about their professional association and the important issues affecting our industry.

The theme for this year’s forum is ‘Together we are Stronger’. Join Damien Lodge and your NT colleagues to discuss ALIA's Future of the Profession project. Please consult the ALIA Futures reports located at https://www.alia.org.au/futureoftheprofession before the meeting.

Please join ALIA Director Damian Lodge and myself: to discuss ALIA’s Future of the Profession project. Light refreshments will be provided.

What: NT ALIA NAC/Annual Member Forum

When: Tuesday 7 October 2014, 5-7pm.

Where: CDU Yellow 1.2.48 (Building adjacent to Chinese Gardens)

RSVP: Jayshree Mamtora

Damian will also run a PD session, Building a Research Culture for Librarians for the wider community before the NAC Meeting. See details in next email.

Regards

Jayshree