ALIES 2010 Conference

Anne Marie Troutman - video presentation

2010-05-20T21:17:00.000-07:00

A video of Anne Marie Troutman's presentation at the ALIES Conference on 'Personal and Organisational' resilience is now available to view online, including presentation slides and audio of the presentation.

ALIES 2010 Conference Highlights Video

2010-05-20T20:46:00.000-07:00

2010 Conference Photos available

2010-05-20T20:03:00.000-07:00

Photos from the 2010 ALIES conference are available at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliesphotos/sets/72157624104388292/

ALIES conference comes to an end for another year

2010-03-31T22:14:00.001-07:00

The ALIES conference came to a close this afternoon, after a very successful and enjoyable three days.

The final day began with a hypothetical discussion facilitated by Katrina Beard. This proved to be a fun and engaging way to look at issues affecting special libraries. A big thank-you to all of the ALIES librarians who took part in the hypothetical, really getting into character!

This was followed by a presentation by Jane Grace, Yarra Plenty Regional Library, about her involvement in disaster recovery from a library perspective after the Black Saturday Bushfires. Sue McKerracher, ALIA Disaster Recovery Project Officer, talked about the what ALIA is doing in preparing libraries for disasters, and the work of Blue Shield Australia.

A great end to a busy and rewarding conference!

What does resilience mean to ALIES?

2010-03-31T02:57:00.000-07:00

An activity during the ALIES conference was to workshop what resilience means to ALIES. This word map is an output of that discussion.

Highlights from Wednesday 30 March

2010-03-31T02:11:00.000-07:00

Rosa Serratore, Karen York and Ann Ritchie all gave excellent presentations on how their libraries have attempted and succeeded in making their libraries resilient. We all took away something we can use in our own library situations.

After morning tea, Heather Wood provided insights into how information was collected, collated and captured for the Bushfire CRC, post the Victorian Bushfires on 7 February 2009.

Anne-Marie Troutman delivered a thought provoking paper on personal resilience. In Anne-Marie’s workshop session, we learnt how libraries can develop a framework for dealing with change that builds an agile and resilient team.

Tony Stephenson provided some useful tips on using Govdex so start now! Use it or lose it .
Posters.

ALIES members showed how resourceful and creative they are in seven excellent poster sessions.

GovDex

2010-03-31T00:15:00.000-07:00

ALIES now uses GovDex as its document sharing and committee management tool. Tony Stephenson demonstrated its use today for all conference participants.

ALIES is a closed community on GovDex, which means that you need to register as a user to be able to access the ALIES section. If you have not yet registered, please do, and fill in the missing details on the Contacts page. To edit a page, just click on Edit this page in the dropdown on the grey line at the top of the page. Before saving your change, click the Minor change box underneath the edit box. Then save the page.

If you are truly lost, contact Tony Stephenson or Julie Wyner for help.

All available conference presentations will soon be in the Conference section on GovDex.

The ALIES consortium

2010-03-31T00:09:00.000-07:00

ALIES has several consortium arrangements with library suppliers - but we need to track them all down! To this end, a working group has been established with the following members:

Connie Coniglio
Barbara Glass
Cheryl Petroeschevsky

If you are a member of a consortium arranged through ALIES, please let one of these people know. Even better, if you know of any suppliers willing to work with the ALIES consortium and you are willing to investigate the possibilities, please email the ALIES group.

ALIES Committees

2010-03-31T00:03:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to the following volunteers for the vital ALIES committees. We couldn't do it without you!

Executive:

Rosa Serratore (chair)
Denise Clarkson (vice-chair)
Karen York (secretary)
Karen Hansen (liaison officer)
Troy Watson (AG's liaison)

Marketing:

Jill North (chair)
Connie Coniglio
Rachael 'Asi
Kerry Johannes

ICT:

Tony Stephenson (chair)
Julie Wyner
Margaret Chamberlain
Barbara Glass
Jennifer Nielsen (ALIESnet coordinator)

2011 Conference:

Janet Bethell
Gillian Laughton
Jenni Burgess
Troy Watson
Howard Philpott

Ask ALIES:

Karen York (chair)
Tony Stephenson
Cheryl Petroeschevsky
Joanne Achison
NT Health representative

Wednesday's theme - Resilience in the library community

2010-03-30T14:31:00.001-07:00

Today’s Panel theme, “Challenges and resilient responses”, explores how we build on our strengths to thrive, rather than just survive, during turbulent times and constant change.

Today’s speakers will focus on managing change and building the necessary personal and organizational resilience to cope with these circumstances.

The poster presentations will also highlight successful developments and changes that ALIES Libraries have implemented during the past year.

ALIES Award winners announced!

2010-03-30T14:26:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to the winners of this year's ALIES awards!

Enola Johnson was awarded the Outstanding Service Award
Enola has demonstrated steadfast commitment and enthusiasm for the work of ALIES through her involvement in ALIES committees and her promotion of ALIES to the outside community.
She has held positions on the following committees sometimes holding up to 3 positions in a given year:

IP/Web CommitteeWorkshop
Planning Committee
Marketing Committee
Ausdin CommitteeExecutive Committee

Enola co-presented a paper on ALIES partnerships at the ALIA 08 Dreaming Conference and co-authored a paper for the same conference “Information Catalysts in the Emergency Sector: Partnerships that work”.

The Information Catalyst Award went to the N.H. (Doc) Fisher Geoscience Library (Geoscience Australia) for its Major Documents Series digitisation project

This involved:

scanning the documents as pdfs
Bookmarking headings within the documents to replicate contents pages
Creating web pages to enable access to staff via their intranet
The next planned phase is to make these documents available to all via the Internet.

Congratulations to both of the award winners.

A note from Frans-Jan Mulschlegel - keynote speaker at ALIES 2009 Conference

2010-03-30T14:24:00.001-07:00

IPEP NEWS UPDATE

IPEP is no longer, success is no guarantee for continuation.The IPEP project was terminated on December 31st 2009.In the grand re-organisation of the Police Academy, IPEP (with its rising costs) was no longer considered a primary activity and thus terminated.For Frans-Jan Mulschlegel this is the 3rd job in succession where he has had to turn off the lights and close the door.With only 32 months short of retirement the prospects of participating in an exciting new project are very slim.However, the memories and contacts of my visit to your conference last year, and my 2500 km trip in south-east Australia have helped to keep me in good spirits.The conference, you as participants, your friendship, and of course your magnificently beautiful country are forever etched in my memory.I greet you from the Netherlands and hope that you have a very good and interesting conference.

Best regards,Frans-Jan Mulschlegel
Police Academy of the Netherlands

Tuesday's theme - Community resilience

2010-03-30T14:18:00.000-07:00

After the Conference opening by Martin Studdert we had an engaging array of speakers. All mentioned the role that libraries can play in supporting community resilience.

Best summarized by Kate Brady (Australian Red Cross) and added to in a later workshop as:

-Informing best practice
-Support for policy makers
-Promote and use new technologies
-Assist with the development of new services
-Information sharing
-Support for evidence based decision making

Tuesday’s speakers presented an amazing array of examples of preparedness, response, and recovery in times of crisis. This included:

How will the right information at the right time contribute to a community’s ability to prepare for, survive, and recover from emergencies and disasters?
The assistance and support provided by the Australian Red Cross and Centrelink
Australia's National Disaster Resilience Strategy urrindindi Shire’s capacity to rebuild and recover from the devastating bushfires of February 7th
Preparing the public for possible crises such as pandemics

Thanks to our conference sponsors

2010-03-28T23:49:00.001-07:00

The ALIES 2010 Conference Committee acknowledges the generous assistance of the following sponsors and supporters:

We also acknowledge the support of delegates’ departments and agencies in allowing your participation.

-Attorney-General’s Department
-EBSCO Publishing
-Proquest
-FIRST Software Solutions
-Thomson Reuters
-YBP Library Services

Getting off to a good start - delegates arrived earlier than expected!

2010-03-28T23:45:00.000-07:00

Welcome, or welcome back to the ALIES Conference at the Australian Emergency Management Institute in Mt. Macedon. This ALIES Daily newsletter is brought to you by the Conference Planning Committee. We hope you enjoy our daily musings and wrap-ups.

If you have already checked into your room but need assistance with accommodation or any Institute facilities, please contact the Reception Desk staff.

For help or assistance relating to the Conference, please contact a member of the Conference Planning Committee
-Janet Smith
-Jen Burgess
-Janet Bethell
-Troy Watson
Another committee member, Karen Hansen, unfortunately has not been able to attend the conference, but sends her best wishes.

Tonight’s BBQ dinner starts at 6.30pm. Dinner is followed by an official Institute welcome at 7.30pm in the TV Lounge area.

There will be some housekeeping reminders in addition to the usual introductions and the chance to renew our friendships and get to know each other. Please make our new members feel welcome.

Join the ALIES 'resilience' discussion before the conference starts!

2010-02-28T15:11:00.000-08:00

A new initiative for this year’s conference is an online discussion forum. We aim to use this forum to discuss issues prior to and during the conference, and to create an ‘outcomes’ report by the end of the conference.

ALIES members are invited to join in the discussion prior to the conference, and give us your ideas about resilience! Some conversation topics have been posted to get the discussion started.

To access the forum, please self register - you will need a password to enter our forum - contact the Australian Emergency Management Library for details.

If you are not attending the conference, this is still a great way to be involved prior to and during the conference. Ensure your thoughts are included in the discussion! We will be utilising the forum during the conference on Tuesday 30th March between 4pm and 5pm AEDT, so please log in and join in remotely!

2010 Conference Program

2010-02-17T09:50:00.000-08:00

To view the latest version of the conference program, visit the ALIES Conference webpage. The last update to the program was on 8 Feb.

What is resilience?

2010-02-17T09:42:00.000-08:00

What does resilience mean to you? At this year's conference, we'll be identifying ways that ALIES and member libraries can become more resilient. These are just a few resilience words, but when you hear the word resilience, what comes to mind?