ALIA meets at Mindil Beach

Library staff gathered at Mindil Beach Market prior to the Symposium

Nice way of doing things

My former colleague Susan Brunner from TAFESA and the man in her life, school teacher, Trevor Jones created this:

Strange little library movie...

Saw this on another blog at http://robin-news.blogspot.com

More photographs , these from Jayshree

ALIA Top End Garden Party July 2007

A pleasant evening at the ALIA Top End Garden Party which was held in the Chinese Gardens at Charles Darwin University with a really good attendance from the library and information sector of Darwin. Great networking opportunity and nice nibbles and drinks as the sun set.

Old contacts

It was nice to catch up with lost contacts. I saw Jenny Paradisio, formally of TTG Library and West Torrens Library now working with Ex Libris


Jenny and Kate from UNISA got tangled with a very good magician.

Information Online Dinner

The Information Online dinner.
This was good as I spent my evening with Darwin colleagues.
This is Jayshree with Ruby who works at RDH Medical library


Di Sinclair,Ruby with Ann Ritchie
MaryAnne, Sue Chilman, and Anne Wilson

Maryanne and Ruby

Quiet conversation

Information Online

The Information Online conference is underway. I attended a great dinner last night at Cockle Bay, "Coast", sponsored by EBSCO. This morning I have caught up with many old friends and colleagues from Darwin and Adelaide as well as some of the company representatives that I know. I have organised some trials of new databases for the TAFE that I hope will be useful for all.




This is Richard Sayers from Caval with Gillian Hallam from QUT.

Jayshree with a Fijian colleague.

Sarah managed to capture the Blogger at work

After the Information Online Conference I stayed on for the NSW TAFE Library Conference which was held parallel with a health sector conference so I met other librarians i knew from Adelaide as well, eg Philip Keane, from RAH/IMVSwith Lindsay from NWHS.

Gillian Hallam, here with Marie the NSW DG of TAFE and Lucy Hill from NSW TAFE.

Times Past or have you washed your books today?

In cleaning up my office I came across something I have had for a number of years. Its a Western novel, a genre I have never read. Why I bought it is because its got a bookplate from the "Hygienic Lending Library" in St. Peters, Adelaide. It was last borrowed in 1948 (I hope its not overdue!!) I have always assumed that hygienic libraries came about because of such concerns as tuberculosis etc.

I did a bit of research and found this article in the Medical Journal of Australia from 2001
"Books as carriers of disease In the early years of bacteriology, librarians, microbiologists and public health physicians were much exercised by the question of whether books could transmit infectious diseases."which pointed me back to an evidenced-based review that appeared in 1912 in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
THE DISINFECTION OF BOOKS

Our planning day at Palmerston

We had a productive planning day at our Palmerston campus.
Sonia joined us via videoconference from our Alice Springs campus.

Anne Wilson was a good facilitator for the team.

We made some interesting suggestions to work on for the next 12 months.

Anastasia is a real Angel!

Have you seen our celebrity colleague? Anastasia Govan appears as one the three Charlies Angels in the Screen Goddess of IT Calendar.




Ps contact her if you want one she has some for sale
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A visit to the ABC and Trailer Boat Club

The ALIA TopEnd group had the opportunity to visit the ABC studios in Darwin and meet the Archive and library staff.



We later adjourned to the Darwin Trailer Boat Club (along side the Darwin Sailing Club) to have drinks to mark the retirement of Ann Alderslade from the Department of Health Libraries.