Conferences
Forthcoming Conferences
June 2010
Auslib Conference 12 to 24s@Your Public Library In Australia And New Zealand
11-12 June at Beenleigh Events Centre, Logan City, Brisbane. For full details and call for papers please visit:
http://www.auslib.com.au/pdfs/lib1224.pdf
July 2010
Impact - NSW Public Libraries Conference. 13-16 July at the Albury Entertainment Centre.
For further information see the Conference website - www.impact2010.com.au
August 2010
MYLANGUAGE 2010 National Conference
MyLanguage/ Your Language in the Digital Age
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 9-11 August 2010
Watch out for this major event to explore the use of new media technologies to assist CALD communities achieve greater social inclusion and maintain cultural and linguistic identity.
The conference will be presented by the State and Territory Libraries of the ACT, Northern Territory, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia. These Libraries host the MyLanguage web portal which provides links to information in over 60 languages (www.mylanguage.gov.au ). Representatives from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, peak bodies, government, service providers and public libraries are all invited to attend.
Visit the website: www.mylanguage.gov.au/conference
Email: conference@mylanguage.gov.au
Call for presentations NOW OPEN
Close of call for presentations Monday 5 March 2010
Registration opens Tuesday 6 April 2010
September 2010
ALIA Access Conference will be held in Brisbane 1-3 September. The draft program and call for abstracts of papers and expressions of interest can be found at http://conferences.alia.org.au/access2010/index.html
February 2011
ALIA Information OnLine Conference. 1-2 February at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Call for Abstracts is now open. For full information go to www.information-online.com.au
Connection and Convergence: second international conference on joint use libraries Adelaide
This conference has been postponed until the second half of 2011. It will still be held in Adelaide, South Australia
Reports of Conferences and Workshops of interest to PLVN Members
- Report of the Workshop on Serving Small Communities held in May 2009
- Report from the Mobile Muster held in Geelong in September 2009
- Papers from the PLA/QPLA Change and Challenge Conference held in Townsville in October can be seen at http://pla.org.au/Conf2009/conference_papers.html
- The Big Issues: Public libraries, learning, technology and social inclusion seminar was held at the State Library of Victoria on Monday 16 November 2009.
The presentations are now available on the Infonet website: http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/infonet/org.cgi?detail=1&id=75.
Recordings of the presentations are also available - Auslib Conferences Proceeedings of the following Auslib Conferences are available through the Auslib website - www.auslib.com.au
- Next chapters: public libraries in Australia and New Zealand for older generations, State Library of New South Wales
1-2 May 2009 - Reading Critical: reader development in Australia and New Zealand, State Library of Victoria conference centre 11-12 April 2008
- Learning Futures: public libraries for the new generations in Australia and New Zealand 9-10 March 2007
- Places and Spaces: public libraries for the 21st century. 31 March - 1 April 2006
SWITCH 2009: Conference Papers & Presentations
- Conference abstracts, papers & presentations from the interactive 2009 SWITCH: Public Libraries in a Changing Environment Conference & Exhibition can be found on the PLM website www.plmnsw.org.au under "Papers" on the "2009 Conference & Exhibition" home page