Registration is now open for the upcoming ALIA symposium Beyond the Hype: Web 2.0. The symposium will be haeld at the Queensland University of Technology from February 1 - 2.

Full details are available at both the symposium web site http://www.alia.org.au/groups/quill/beyond.hype.html and the symposium social networking site http://beyondthehype.ning.com.

ALIA is supporting the creation of "a wiki to promote careers in the library and information industry to secondary students and their careers teachers.

We need your help to collect profiles.

Do you know someone who works in the library and information industry whose profile would inspire teenagers to join the profession, if the answer is yes please pass this email onto them and encourage them tosend their profile to chriske@brimbank.vic.gov.au.

The Australian Library and Information Association and the city of Brisbane have been selected to host the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress in 2010.

The US$1 million award recognises the library’s work to provide free
computer and Internet access and training to Indigenous communities and
for its unique ‘Our Story’ database.

Being the recipient of the Access to Learning Award recognises the

The VALA2008 14th Biennial Conference and Exhibition will be held February 5 - 7, 2008 at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Check out the website for

The State Library of Queensland will be hosting the 2007 SLQ Library2.0 Unconference. Get together with other information professionals in a facilitated environment to informally learn, discuss and brainstorm anything and everything Library2.0.

Meredith Farkas from Information Wants to be Free is conducting a 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.

ALIA has released the results of its
Internet Filtering in Public Libraries 2007 survey, its 3rd such study since 2002.

For those in Melbourne in July, Libraries, Web 2.0 and other Internet stuff will be held at the State Library of Victoria on Monday 23rd July.

"The National Library of Australia has negotiated an agreement on behalf of Australian libraries which gives access to WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database with over one billion item