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Welcome to Country: Les Saxby (Jupurula)
Les Saxby (Jupurula) of Yidaki Didg & Dance Australia, Aboriginal Performance Group performed a "Welcome to Country" to open the Information Online Conference on Tuesday 20th January
Les has allowed a short video of part of his performance to be shown below as well as his photo. You can contact Les by Mobile Ph: 0414358858 or Email: indidge@bigpond.net.au
ALIA IOG Excellence Award Winner
The prestigious Australian Library and Information Association IOG Excellence Award recognises excellence and/or innovation in performance by information professionals. The award carries a prize to the value of $10 000 and the winner shares their experiences with the information community via Online On Tour.
'The panel congratulates the nominees for the variety of applications, which highlighted the diversity of projects happening within the profession', said Marian Morgan Bindon, Conference Marketing Coordinator for the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) IOG committee. Marian, on behalf of the ALIA IOG committee, also said, 'We want to thank the panel for the time and consideration that went into their evaluation.'
The panel reviewed 22 nominations and shortlisted six finalists. The final six were evenly distributed, with two each from national/state libraries, special libraries and education libraries.
Three finalists were present at the Information Online Conference Dinner where the award ceremony took place. In order of receipt of their original nomination, the three finalists were:
* Elena Evendenskaia – Engineers Australia,
* Elibrary Team – Australian Taxation Office,
* Southnary Tan – University of Sydney.
The winner of this year's Australian Library and Information Association IOG Excellence award was the ATO elibrary Team – Australian Taxation Office, for successfully deploying and continuing to develop, a best-practice eLibrary solution, making information quickly and easily available to over 25 000 ATO desktops Australia-wide.
This was achieved by selecting, acquiring, configuring and deploying cutting-edge information applications, resources and content.
Accepting the award on behalf of the ATO eLibrary Team was Sue Sinclair (First assistant Commissioner for the Australian Taxation Office) - pictured top left in the photo of the ATO eLibrary Team.
The prestigious Australian Library and Information Association IOG Excellence Award recognises excellence and/or innovation in performance by information professionals. The award carries a prize to the value of $10 000 and the winner shares their experiences with the information community via Online On Tour.
'The panel congratulates the nominees for the variety of applications, which highlighted the diversity of projects happening within the profession', said Marian Morgan Bindon, Conference Marketing Coordinator for the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) IOG committee. Marian, on behalf of the ALIA IOG committee, also said, 'We want to thank the panel for the time and consideration that went into their evaluation.'
The panel reviewed 22 nominations and shortlisted six finalists. The final six were evenly distributed, with two each from national/state libraries, special libraries and education libraries.
Three finalists were present at the Information Online Conference Dinner where the award ceremony took place. In order of receipt of their original nomination, the three finalists were:
* Elena Evendenskaia – Engineers Australia,
* Elibrary Team – Australian Taxation Office,
* Southnary Tan – University of Sydney.
The winner of this year's Australian Library and Information Association IOG Excellence award was the ATO elibrary Team – Australian Taxation Office, for successfully deploying and continuing to develop, a best-practice eLibrary solution, making information quickly and easily available to over 25 000 ATO desktops Australia-wide.
This was achieved by selecting, acquiring, configuring and deploying cutting-edge information applications, resources and content.
Accepting the award on behalf of the ATO eLibrary Team was Sue Sinclair (First assistant Commissioner for the Australian Taxation Office) - pictured top left in the photo of the ATO eLibrary Team.
Vendor News: Alexander Street Press Announces Release of New Media Collections
Online publisher Alexander Street Press will announce the release of a number of new online collections at ALIA Information Online 2009 this week. A publisher of online collections in the humanities, performing arts, and social sciences, Alexander Street is known particularly for the research value of its Semantically Indexed collections and for its groundbreaking work in the publication of streaming music and video content.
New Streaming Video Collections New streaming video collections from Alexander Street Press--each featuring hundreds to thousands of hours of carefully chosen content--include Dance in Video; Opera in Video; Counseling and Therapy in Video; and (in a partnership with The History Channel®, American History in Video.
New Streaming Music Collection The newest release in Alexander Street's range of streaming music collections--launching in early 2009--is Jazz Music Library. The largest online collection of jazz available anywhere, it will contain 80,000+ tracks at completion and will cover every major jazz genre, performer, and venue world-wide.
New Full-Text Online Literature Collections In a partnership with London based Pickering & Chatto Publishers Limited (www.pickeringchatto.com), The Romantic Era Redefined will make available 200,000 pages of poetry, prose, drama, letters, diaries, travel narratives, and political and philosophical works by canonical and previously unrecognized Romantic-era writers together with dozens of critical essays written by leading scholars. Alexander Street will also announce two new collections, the first of their kind, devoted to comics, comic strips, and graphic fiction--an exciting and rapidly growing area of scholarship world-wide
For more information about any of these collections, libraries should visit Alexander Street on the ALIA 2009 exhibit floor at the Alexander Street Press stand or on the Web at http://alexanderstreet.com Libraries may request free trial access or price quotes by emailing sales@alexanderstreet.com
New Streaming Video Collections New streaming video collections from Alexander Street Press--each featuring hundreds to thousands of hours of carefully chosen content--include Dance in Video; Opera in Video; Counseling and Therapy in Video; and (in a partnership with The History Channel®, American History in Video.
New Streaming Music Collection The newest release in Alexander Street's range of streaming music collections--launching in early 2009--is Jazz Music Library. The largest online collection of jazz available anywhere, it will contain 80,000+ tracks at completion and will cover every major jazz genre, performer, and venue world-wide.
New Full-Text Online Literature Collections In a partnership with London based Pickering & Chatto Publishers Limited (www.pickeringchatto.com), The Romantic Era Redefined will make available 200,000 pages of poetry, prose, drama, letters, diaries, travel narratives, and political and philosophical works by canonical and previously unrecognized Romantic-era writers together with dozens of critical essays written by leading scholars. Alexander Street will also announce two new collections, the first of their kind, devoted to comics, comic strips, and graphic fiction--an exciting and rapidly growing area of scholarship world-wide
For more information about any of these collections, libraries should visit Alexander Street on the ALIA 2009 exhibit floor at the Alexander Street Press stand or on the Web at http://alexanderstreet.com Libraries may request free trial access or price quotes by emailing sales@alexanderstreet.com
Vendor News: EnvisionWare LibraryPDA launched
EnvisionWare is very pleased to announce the release of their LibraryPDA.
EnvisionWare LibraryPDA is a revolutionary product for libraries, offering mobility, convenience and power in a lightweight Windows mobile device that can change the way you operate your library.
Wi-Fi RFID/Barcode Handheld for:
The concept of an untethered librarian is now a reality thanks to the innovations that come only from EnvisionWare, the global leader in self service technology for libraries.
On Thursday at 12.10pm in Theatrette 1, we will be presenting "Untethered librarians: Taking your Library Services to the public with EnvisionWare's LibraryPDA"
See Jo-Anne and Susie at stand 22 for more information and to see EnvisionWare's LibraryPDA in use.
EnvisionWare are offering 10% discount off LibraryPDA purchases made before the 30th April 2009 to anyone who visits the booth ot Online.
EnvisionWare LibraryPDA is a revolutionary product for libraries, offering mobility, convenience and power in a lightweight Windows mobile device that can change the way you operate your library.
Wi-Fi RFID/Barcode Handheld for:
- Circulation - Checkin/Checkout
- Inventory - capture inventory, search multiple lists, verify shelf order, validate an item list
- Item Search - Query Item status
- Patron Query - query Patron records
- Browsing - search Library Catalogue, search Internet
- And more... - Winmobile applications, Open Standard Encoding
The concept of an untethered librarian is now a reality thanks to the innovations that come only from EnvisionWare, the global leader in self service technology for libraries.
On Thursday at 12.10pm in Theatrette 1, we will be presenting "Untethered librarians: Taking your Library Services to the public with EnvisionWare's LibraryPDA"
See Jo-Anne and Susie at stand 22 for more information and to see EnvisionWare's LibraryPDA in use.
EnvisionWare are offering 10% discount off LibraryPDA purchases made before the 30th April 2009 to anyone who visits the booth ot Online.
What do you think?
As this is the last day of Information Online 2009 what do you think of the conference? What was your favourite part of the conference?
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