ALIA Top End Symposium papers online

The ALIA website now has some of the Top End Symposium papers online. Our paper on Learning 2.0 is there:

Evolving and Changing with Workplace E-Learning: 23 ways your staff can grow.
Julia Gross and Lyn Leslie, Edith Cowan University

They plan to add the podcasts too at some stage. Other papers are

What is Library 2.0 and do we need it?
Sue Chilman, Manager City Library, Darwin City Council Libraries

The e-volving profession: key findings from the nexus census of library and information professionals
Dr Gillian Hallam, Associate Professor School of Information Systems QUT

Information Literacy - Online Tutorials
Liz Short, Taminmin Community Library Ruth Sheridan, Palmerston High School

Darwin ALIA Top End Symposium

The ALIA Top End Symposium is the premier library event in the Northern Territory and attracts library participants across the NT from a range of libraries. This year the Symposium theme was "e-volving education" focussing on how the library industry maintains its own education in order to stay on top of information trends.

Our symposium paper, Evolving and Changing with Workplace ELearning: 23 ways your staff can grow, was well received and elicited lots of questions from the audience.

Roxanne Missingham ALIA President gave an interesting paper keynote and spoke of library workforce trends. Later she mentioned to us that she planning to do 23 Things with her Federal Parliamentary Library staff.

The other keynote, Dr Gillian Hallam, presented the results of her research into Australian library workforce planning drawing out the NT component of findings.

Two Charles Darwin University librarians gave a very good session on podcasting You can access their CDU library podcasts here

The papers were all recorded as a podcast. All the printed papers will be placed on the ALIA website in due course.

Crocodiles on the Mary River NT

After the Top End Symposium we did find time to venture out into the outback and experience the wonderful bird and wildlife around the Fogg Dam and Mary River Park region.
We saw crocodiles, both freshies and salties. This video is a saltie swimming in front of our boat on the Mary River. I tried to stand up in the boat to get a better shot but was yelled at by the captain…. “sit down there’s only 2 feet of water here” …hence the wonky picture!