Functions
First Timers’ Breakfast
Sponsored by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Date: Wednesday, 3 September
Time: 07:30 - 08:30
Venue: Alice Springs Convention Centre
Cost: Included for full registered first timer delegates only
Welcome Cocktail Party and Exhibition Opening
Sponsored by Insync Surveys
Date: Tuesday, 2 September
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Venue: Exhibition area, Alice Springs Convention Centre
Cost: Included for fully registered delegates
Guests: $ 60.00 per ticket
The Organising Committee extends a warm invitation to delegates to attend the Welcome Cocktail Party. This function will give delegates an opportunity to relax with colleagues and meet new friends. The evening includes light refreshments.
Happy Hour
Sponsored by Eastend Booksellers Pty Ltd
Date: Wednesday, 3 September
Time: 17:30 – 18:30
Venue: Exhibition Area
Cost: Included for fully registered delegates
Guests: $30.00 per ticket
During Happy Hour drinks and nibbles will be provided for all full delegates and students attending the Conference.
Australian Premiere of the Hollywood Librarian Movie
Sponsored by DA Information Services
Date: Wednesday, 3 September
Time: 18:45 - 20:20
Venue: MacDonnell Rooms, Alice Springs Convention Centre
Cost: Included for fully registered delegates
The Australian Premiere of the Hollywood Librarian movie will be screened on Wednesday evening. ‘They have more cardholders than VISA and more outlets than McDonalds. Meet the Librarians.’ For more information please visit http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com
Conference Dinner
Sponsored by Civica
Date: Thursday, 4 September
Time: 18:00 – 23:30
Venue: Ooraminna Homestead
Cost: Included for fully registered delegates
Guests: $110.00 per ticket
Please Note:
- Please bring a jacket or jersey, as it can be quite cool in the evenings during September in Alice Springs.
- Buses will depart the Alice Springs Convention Centre at 18:00. The Dinner will start at 19:30.
For a memorable night in the outback, a dinner, under the stars at Ooraminna Homestead, is not to be missed. The Homestead has panoramic views of the Ooraminna Ranges with spectacular colours on sunset. This evening offers you the opportunity to escape the “four walls and ceiling” and come to the true outback where your ceiling is a canopy of a million stars.
Ooraminna Homestead is located 30 kilometres from Alice Springs. The approximate travel time is 30 minutes from town. Return transfers are included in the cost.
Farewell Drinks
Date: Friday, 5 September
Time: 16:30 - 17:00
Venue: Exhibition Area, Alice Springs Convention Centre
Cost: Included for fully registered delegates
Guests: $30.00 per ticket
A wonderful way to close dreaming 08. Join your friends for a final farewell drink at the Alice Springs Convention Centre.
The Hollywood Librarian
The Organising Committee is pleased to announce the Australasian premiere screening of The Hollywood Librarian during DREAMing 08. Be amongst the first in Australia to see this entertaining film.
It's fun, it's provocative, and it's us.
The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians Through Film premiered at the ALA conference to an audience of 5,000. Since then, this film, the brainchild of director/librarian Ann Seidl has caught the attention of a world audience of library folks. Now it's set to premiere in Australia at Dreaming08, the ALIA Biennial Conference in Alice Springs, this September.
This first full length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians gathers hundreds of examples of librarians and libraries from Hollywood - from Sophie's Choice to the Desk Set and on to The Shawshank Redemption. As the website blurb says - "some [are] positive, some negative, some laughable and some dead wrong". Interviews with dozens of real librarians are interwoven with these make-believe portrayals, opening up discussion on the things we, as a profession, care about - from the value of reading to intellectual freedom.
As the film unfolds, we will meet the dedicated children's librarian, the witty library director, the high-tech corporate librarian, the smart medical librarian, and the dedicated cataloger. We visit a prison literacy program, an elementary school library and a town faced with the most severe library crisis in decades. We will show the challenges created by shrinking financial support and increased materials costs. We will encounter older librarians who have witnessed the explosion of technology and younger librarians, who were born into the information age. We will travel to large library systems with dozens of staff and visit small libraries with one librarian working alone.
The film is currently being shown in libraries around America and library folk in other countries are clamouring to see it too. It's all done on a shoestring - like so much of what we do, it's not about making money, but about sharing the message. There's no commercial distributor involved, just Ann and her runaway surprise success.
You gotta be there.