Dunn & Wilson Scholarship 2005

At the ALIA Library & Information Technicians Conference neXt 2005 I was presented with the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship. This blog aims to present a reflection of my research progress on secondment opportunities for Australian Library Technicians in all library sectors.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Celebrate Qld LIS Professionals Research Success

I will be making an appearance, and promoting my research, at the following event:

You are invited to join with the ALIA Research Committee and the ALIA Quorum Committee to celebrate the presentation of the 2005 ALIA Ray Choate Scholarship to this year's recipients - Kate Watson and Chelsea Harper from Central Queensland University.http://www.alia.org.au/awards/choate.scholarship/ Kate and Chelsea will be conducting research "Investigating blog and wikitechnology for the enhancement of internal reference services processes" during the coming year.

When : Tuesday 6th December, 2005 5.30pm for 6pm start. 7.30pm finish.
Where : O J Wordsworth Room 12th Floor, S Block QUT Gardens Point Campus

Speaker for the night will be Anna Raunik, Acting Director of Public Library Services, State Library of Queensland. Anna was the recipient of the 2005 VALA Travel Scholarship and she will be discussing herr esearch and study into webconferencing and webcasting in the UK and USA. Other current Queensland library research projects will also be showcased on the night.

Food and Drinks provided so please RSVP for catering by Monday 5th December to Joy Goldsmith - email joy_goldsmith@hotmail.com

Parking available at the QUT Gardens Point Pay & Display Carpark under the South East Freeway.

All Welcome.

Sue HutleyALIA Quorum Convenor
http://www.alia.org.au/groups/quorum/

It's great that there are so many Qld LIS Professionals winning research awards. I can't emphasise enough how important LIS reseach is to our profession - for those with a passion, please apply for an ALIA research award: http://alia.org.au/awards/

On a side note (since we are celebrating Qld LIS success), congratulations to Clare Glanville who was today presented with the ALIA Metcalfe Award!! Claire has recently optained the position of Campus Librarian for the new USQ Springfield Campus Library: http://www.usq.edu.au/springfield/default.htm

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