Hi all,

I'm pleased to advise the podcast recording is now available via our ARCoM web page, of two presenters at our recent event, Digital Repositories in 2008:

http://alia.org.au/groups/arcom/digital.repositories.2008.html

Here is a nice professional development opportunity to listen to these aspects of the latest trends in electronic repositories:

The DSTO DSpace Repository
Catherine Hunt, Director Library & Information Services,
Defence Science and Technology Organisation

bepress Digital Commons & Selected Works
Tony Hilker, Sales Manager - Australia/NZ,
Berkeley Electronic Press

Regards,

Kylie Jarrett
Convenor, the ALIA ARCoM Group

South Australian Library Achiever of the Year

It is our great pleasure to announce that Ian Hildebrand of Mt Barker Community Library was named the 2008 South Australian Library Achiever of the Year at last night’s award ceremony.

Ian was nominated for Innovative program development and creation of local business and community links for Mount Barker Community Library.

In the past five years, under the leadership of Ian, Mt Barker Community Library has positioned itself as the heart of the community. Over this period the number of people visiting the library has increased by 60%.
Ian has developed partnerships with a variety of local and statewide organisations including booksellers and publishers, TAFESA Wallis Cinemas, Dominos Pizza and Monarto Zoo. He has used the media very effectively to promote the library and it’s services.
His innovation in children’s programming has resulted in a 500% increase in participation levels in the past three years, some examples of the many programs include living library, school holiday discos, and Rock Star for a Day program.

Ian was successful from a strong field of contenders and all nominees are congratulated on the quality of their nominations.

ALIA South Australian Student Awards
Acknowledgement was also made to South Australian recipients of the ALIA student awards for Information Studies courses.
Heather Iveson received the award for completion of the Graduate Diploma. Janet Bradshaw received the award for completion of the Bachelor Degree.

ALIA Silver Pin recipients
ALIA silver pins were presented to Bill Cations (Flinders University), Christine Cother (University of South Australia) and Hayley Morton (SA Water) who have all served for five or more terms on ALIA committees.

Thanks again to Raeco for sponsoring the Library Achiever of the Year Award, 3M Library Systems, Ex-Libris, Public Libraries South Australia for sponsoring the award presentation evening, and the State Library of South Australia for provision of the lovely venue.

Benita Wheeler & Hayley Morton
ALIA SA Co-Convenors

ARCoM presents Digital Repositories in 2008

For the latest on sharing electronic resources among user communities locally and around the world, join us to hear from:

Catherine Hunt, Director Library & Information Services, Defence Science and Technology Organisation
The DSTO DSpace Repository
In 2005 the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) Research Library commenced a project to provide a comprehensive repository of the organisation’s Technical Reports, using the open source software DSpace. The presentation will outline how they established the project, lessons learnt, and what their future direction holds.

Tony Hilker, Sales Manager - Australia/NZ, Berkeley Electronic Press
bepress Digital Commons
Tony will introduce Digital Commons institutional repositories as a hosted solution for institutes. He’ll talk about the advantages for institutions in having their IR hosted, and how the unique features of Digital Commons are helping institutions engage faculty, recruit content and make their IRs a success.

Kate Sergeant, Digital Resource Services Coordinator, University of South Australia Library
ARROW and related projects at UniSA
Kate will give an overview of the ARROW and related projects. She’ll talk about the benefits of repositories for researchers, including a demo of some of the features of arrow@UniSA. Also, she will present on other kinds of repositories at UniSA - archive, ereserve repository and an index/abstract database housed in repository architecture.

When: Monday 25th August 2008
Where: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
Time: 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start (finishing 7.30-8.00pm)
Cost: ALIA members $7.00, non-members $10.00
Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
RSVP to Denise Dunn: Denise.Dunn@dsto.defence.gov.au by Thursday 21st August

Cheers,

Kylie Jarrett
Convenor, the ALIA ARCoM Committee