, 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, , Roger M cDonald • 14/2 Library Technicians Online Chat See The Australian, 13 December, and 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 ; 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 's The Acolyte, Level 1, 48 Clifton St, Prahran, Vic 3181 Road, Fannie Bay, 5:30pm. Contact Sarah '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. Expanding Horizons: In­ strategy for attention management. At­ tices is a money-making venture. It was formation Professionals in the Digital World. tention fatigue has a negative impact on revealed last week that Moreland's five li­ Angela Bell, TFPL (London), workshop on information workers and is caused by the braries make a combined total of $92,000 roles and skills for effective information limited amount of attention they have to in overdue book fines. But Moreland management in the e-landscape. OJ W ords­ worth Room, L12, S Block, QUT, Gardens spend on an ever-increasing amount of Council social development director Jenny Point. Cost: $20 ALIA Members, non-mem­ information that demands their attention. Merkus said most customers were happy bers $30. Contact Merindi Derrick, ph 0402 Fatigue also leads to resistance to new with the existing systems at the five librar­ 080 031, [email protected] communications technologies. Processes, ies across Moreland. A $5 cap ensured 6/2 Carol Lefebvre at the Princess Alexandra cultural changes and even technology are customers were not left in financial ruin if Hospital. 'Identifying trials for inclusion in lumped under something called 'attention they forgot to return a book. The $92,000 Systematic Reveiws'. 2:00-4:00pm. Contact management' (AM) to help users cope. AM that the fines raise per annum is reinvested Jennifer Hall, ph 07 3240 5350, j.hall@li- brary.uq.edu.au applies concepts from psychology, physi­ back into the libraries. • 14/2 Library Technicians O nline Chat See ology, and economics. National events for more details. The cashed up councils that cry poor • 15/2 Quorum Q LD . Copyright: update on Digital divide: still there for the poorest - infrastructure suffers as the bureau­ recent legislative changes. Moyra McAllister, FT.com, 4 December, Alan Cane crats sit on $ m in unspent funds 600 ALIA Copyright Adviser. How recent changes Sunday Telegraph, 3 Decem ber, Less than 10 per cent of the world's popu­ to copyright legislation may affect your organ­ Linda Silmalis isation's practices. Level 11 Brisbane Square, lation had basic internet access in 2003, 266 Queen St. Members $5 Non-members Paul Mountford told the Silicon Valley Sydney councils are sitting on more than $10. Contact Merindi Derrick, ph 0402 080 Challenge Summit last month, vividly il­ half a billion dollars in developer fees 031, [email protected] lustrating the size of the 'digital divide' that should have been spent on new in­ • 20/2 QLD Library Technicians General which separates the information rich frastructure and fixing roads and parks. meeting, location TBA, 5pm for a 5:30pm from the information poor. This Summit, Figures compiled by the Property Council start. Contact Trish D'Arcy, ph 073623 7404, of Australia (PCA) show Sydney councils [email protected] have amassed $603 million in unspent 13/3 Conference for Librarians, Teachers et al. Active Reading! Active Learning! Somerset Section 94 funds. Councils are meant to College. 'Re-affirming the Thirst for Knowl­ use the funds to build infrastructure such edge'. Radisson Resort Gold Coast. Contact as roads, libraries and child-care services. Somerset College Library, ph 07 5530 5458, PCA executive director Ken Morrison said [email protected] councils should be forced to hand back • 17/3 Library Technicians Q LD Workshop® unspent funds. ACU, details to come. Contact Trish D'Arcy, ph 073623 7404, [email protected]. DUST REMOVAL edu.au MOULD REMOVAL a MONITORING BULK CLEANING • 28/3 ALIA PD Workshop in partnership with MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS CAVAL. Negotiating e-licences. One-day workshop, Cliftons, Brisbane. Register (03) 95118321 or 0407815 722 online, http://training.caval.edu.au/pdt/ www.jopa.com.au show_course.php?CID=217. For further

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