Category Archives: ALIA

Takeaways from NLS5

Last weekend was the busiest one I’ve had in a long time – the culmination of about two years’ work with a group of colleagues in organising the 5th New Librarians’ Symposium. The weather last weekend was uncharacteristically wet, wild and woolly (for a Perth September), but happily the symposium itself went off really well. [...]

Extra-curricular activity

With Kathryn and Sue, I spoke about the VALA2010 conference at an ALIAWest-organised event last night. It went well and I was amazed to see the large number of people who turned up. Photo was taken by one of my colleagues, Molly (that’s madradish to you!) and shows me trying to poke one of my [...]

Aurora

So, Aurora. What did I do at Aurora? I: ate lots of good food went up a mountain, in a chair lift, and gazed at Mt Kosciuszko played cricket; I was wicket keeper for our team, and we lost despite having the higher score performed a skit based on The Three Little Pigs (high art! [...]