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Making News Poets Douglas Stewart and Francis Webb Were Also out of Print Randolph Stow, Christina Stead and the Making news poets Douglas Stewart and Francis Webb were also out of print. Many works by au­ Career mums wary of jobs in thors as well-known as Helen Garner, Thea regional cities ACT Astley, Frank Moorhouse, Roger M cDonald • 14/2 Library Technicians Online Chat See The Australian, 13 December, and Patrick White are also out of print. National events for more details. Caroline Overington • 28/3 Asia Pacific Special Interest Group. Regional Australia is in danger of becom­ Mixed reaction to new Civic Library Library Visit - United Nations Information ing free of professional women because of The Canberra Times, 9 Decem ber Centre, Barton. Contact Toni Smith, ph 02 an acute shortage of childcare. Kay Mor­ 6273 8200, [email protected] The opening of the $14 million Civic Li­ rison, president of Business and Profes­ • 18/4 ALIA PD Workshop in partnership with brary was met with mixed emotions, as CAVAL. Negotiating e-licences. One-day sional W omen, which has more than 1000 members of the Save the Griffith Library workshop, ALIA House, Deakin. Register members, mostly in smaller cities such as Group clashed with supporters and politi­ online, http://training.caval.edu.au/pdt/ Perth, Bunbury, Darwin and Alice Springs, cians over the complex. The new state-of- show_course.php?CID=217. For further said professional women were reluctant to the-art library in Civic Square has caused information email [email protected], ph take jobs in centres where childcare was 03 9450 5508 or email [email protected], ph unrest among local residents from the 02 6215 8216 scarce, and found it difficult to work even tim e o f its proposed construction in 2004, in cities because childcare was difficult to and more recently with the closure of the NSW manage. She backed calls for tax breaks Griffith Library. Griffith Library support­ • 6/2 The future of professional associations for working women, saying: 'Professional A talk by Tony McSean, Chair of CILIP(UK). ers heckled the Chief Minister over the NSW Leagues Club, 165 Philip Street, Syd­ women at the start of their careers often library's closure at the launch and also ney, 6:00pm. Cost: $25 ALIA Members, find themselves paying hundreds of dol­ over the amount of community consul­ non-members $35. Book now, pay at the lars a week for childcare. They want to be tation before the closure. Griffith Library door. Contact Niki Kallenberger, ph 02 productive, they want to keep their skills, supporter Christine Aldred said that while 9799 5992, [email protected] but they can't.' no one could deny the prestige of the new • 14/2 Library Technicians Online Chat See library complex, many residents would National events for more details. Authors showcase talents to children find accessing the services difficult. Insuf­ • 28/2 Mentoring NSW. Library Folk In the Westside News, 13 Decem ber Pub. The Madison Hotel, 6:00pm. Contact ficient parking in Civic and the general Julian Sortland, ph 0429 470 672, julian@ A government-sponsored book to promote busyness of the area would make reaching sortland.co.uk Queensland authors and illustrators will the library difficult for elderly and young • 15/2 Far North Coast Regional Group A place local talent under the noses of the residents. special visit by three ALIA officers: Ms Sue state's school children. 'Books from our Hutley (Executive Director, ALIA), Ms Helen Backyard' highlights the work of 100 of The end of the paper trail Partridge (ALIA Board Director), and Ms The Australian, 9 Decem ber, Claudia Davies (ALIA QLD Liaison officer). Queensland's top authors and illustra­ Contact Lainey Furness, ph 02 6620 2445, tors. The free resource w ill help teachers Rosemary Neill [email protected] and librarians purchase suitable books for University publishing houses are fighting 16/3 Best practice library and knowledge their classrooms and libraries. Experienced for survival, either turning electronic or go­ management Key Forums Australia one-day senior English teacher Jean Yates chose the ing mainstream. Pandanus Press, at A N U , master class. Harbourview Hotel, Sydney. featured works in consultation with an in­ Full rate: $1095, ALIA members 10% dis­ is a case in point. Its demise underlines the dependent Queensland industry reference count. Contact: ph 02 9436 4255, enqui­ state of flux academic presses are in here ries® keyforums.com.au group. 'Books from our Backyard' provides and overseas. Despite a consensus that • 18/3 New Graduates Pam Whalan, an au­ a synopsis of the stories as well as infor­ university presses cannot survive without thority on Jane Austen, on Genre. Toronto mation on accessing teaching notes and subsidies, cash-starved universities are in­ Library, 2:00pm. Gold coin donation. Con­ booking authors and illustrators for visits. creasingly reluctant to provide them. And tact Narelle Bell, ph 0408 271 791, nar- It will be supplemented with online re­ with the rise of journals, digital copying [email protected] sources and updates. and photocopying, students and univer­ • 30/3 ALIA PD Workshop in partnership with CAVAL. Negotiating e-licences. One-day sity libraries are buying far fewer scholarly Malouf presses for novel reprints workshop, Cliftons, Sydney. Register online, books than they did 20 years ago. Aus- http://training.caval.edu.au/pdt/show_course. The Australian, 12 Decem ber, php?CID=217. For further information email Rosemary Neill [email protected], ph 03 9450 5508 or NEWSPAPERS It is a 'national disgrace' that so many email [email protected], ph 02 6215 8216 WANTED Australian novels, from classics to recent • B o 3 or long NT prize-winners, are out of print, says emi­ and 20th • 14/2 Library Technicians Online Chat See nent novelist David Malouf; a large body i aiian and National events for more details. of what we used to think of as essential 0 v spapers • 21/2 Top End. Peter Spillet Library, Museum reading in Australian literature was no • A 1 s MAGAZINES and Art Galleries of NT. 5:30 tour, 6:30pm ( (, Women's longer readily available. Novels that have Dinner/drinks, Conacher Road Fannie Bay. e ;o 1970 Contact Sarah White, ph 08 8935 9991, won the Miles Franklin, the country's most __________________________________ _ [email protected] prestigious literary award, but are now out Alan Waters, Paper World Pty Ltd • 21/3 Top End. Meeting. Cool Spot, East Point of print, include Thea Astley's The Acolyte, Level 1, 48 Clifton St, Prahran, Vic 3181 Road, Fannie Bay, 5:30pm. Contact Sarah David Ireland's The Glass Canoe, Peter Ph: 03 9529 6888 Fax: 03 9529 6388 White, ph 08 8935 9991, sarah.white@ Mathers's Trap and Tom Flood's Oceana E-mail: [email protected] Fine. Malouf added that classic works by [Member of the Ephemera Society of Australia) 40 incite Volume 28 • Issue l-2 * Jan/Feb 2007 tralia's most prominent university presses, inspired by UN secretary-general Kofi An­ the U n iversity o f Q ueensland Press and nan's lead, is the latest in a string of or­ M elbo urne U niversity Press, have under­ ganisations and events formed to provide gone radical restructures in recent times, help and encouragement to developing . from previous page including drastic staff cuts. In 2003, MUP countries as they grapple with the prac­ palmerston.nt.gov.au shed most of its staff as part of a com­ ticalities of digital communications. The • 6/8 ALIA PD Workshop in partnership with mercial overhaul; UQP has survived an new Digital Opportunity Index, or DOI, CAVAL. Negotiating e-licences. One-day exodus of senior staff and a $3.5 million offers the prospect of measuring the digital workshop, Palmerston Campus, CDU. debt burden. The ANU's vice-chancellor divide and monitoring progress in building Register online, http://training.caval.edu.au/ pdt/show_course.php?CID=217. For further Ian Chubb said earlier this year the univer­ the information society. It is a composite information email [email protected], ph sity could no longer afford to subsidise the index created from 11 internationally 03 9450 5508 or email [email protected], ph loss-making Pandanus as it fell outside the agreed ICT indicators divided into three 02 6215 8216 core activities of teaching and research. categories: opportunity, which measures QLD the basic access and affordability needed 5/2 Tony McSean at the University of Q ueens­ Fatigue from information overload to participate in the information society; land. 'Are our professional Associations has a rem edy, expert says infrastructure which looks at networks and falling to bits or am I just a grumpy old Network World, 6 December, devices; and utilisation which focuses on man?' UQ Social Sciences and Humanities John Fontana who is using what. Library, 3:00-4:00pm. Contact Jennifer Hall, ph 07 3240 5350, [email protected] Knowledge management is old hat. Now Fine way to collect money 5/2 Carol Lefebvre at the University of we need attention management. Given Queensland. 'Supporting Systematic Re­ Moreland Leader (Melbourne), the avalanche of information from nu­ views and the role filled by the Cochrane 4 D ecem ber merous avenues including e-mail, instant Trials Search Co-ordinators'. UQ Biological message and syndication feeds, corporate Melbourne University philosophy student Sciences Library, 5:00-7:00pm. Contact Jen­ nifer Hall, ph 07 3240 5350, j.hall@library. users could start to feel attention fatigue Greg McPherson says Brunswick Library's uq.edu.au and companies may need to institute a policy of not sending overdue book no­ • 5/2 Quorum QLD.
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