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Sue Hutley
Sue Hutley started as the Executive Director of ALIA in January this year. Prior to this she worked as a librarian and a library manager in TAFE, Special, Public and University Libraries. The last library she worked in at UQ Ipswich included an indoor garden complete with a running water stream and goldfish. She has always been active in ALIA and was the Convenor of the first New Librarians Symposium in 2002. Her "political fantasy" is to have an elevator ride with John Howard to give her two-minute 'sell' for Australian Libraries.
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John Rodwell
John joined ALIA, or the Library Association of Australia as it then was, as a new graduate in librarianship of the University of New South Wales, in early 1975, attending his first library conference in Melbourne that year. He subsequently became a serial "joiner" of library and other associations. For some years he was editor of the Australian Law Librarians' Group newsletter and later was convenor of the Group. He also got a taste of international librarianship through membership of the board of the International Association of Law Libraries. After 15 years of law librarianship he moved into the broader stream of the humanities and social sciences librarianship, and became involved with the University and College Libraries Section of the Library Association.
Outside library associations, he had begun joining organizations in his local community of Bankstown, in south-western Sydney, and is by now a "rusted on" member of community groups, involved in local politics, development of community facilities, support for young people to achieve their educational goals, and junior sport. Now especially that "all politics is local", he works on the belief, true or false, that constructive engagement is more productive than confrontation in achieving positive outcomes for the community. On the library front, he still appreciates opportunities to meet librarians working in different environments and capacities, and has enjoyed participation in the ALIA NSW mentoring program.
His day job is Director, Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries at the University of Sydney.
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Rob Tucker
Rob has 6 years of experience in Information Systems, Information Management and customer service in various industries. He currently manages the website and information services for the Australian Institute of Project Management.
Prior to AIPM, Rob contracted to various Government organisations as a Systems Administrator and Librarian. He has volunteered and worked for non-profit cultural, arts and youth associations in Australia and North America. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Library & Information) from the University of Canberra.
He is the Sydney co-ordinator of the New Graduates Group.
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Maxine Brodie
Maxine Brodie BA DipEd (Syd) Dip Lib (NSW) MBA (Macq) AALIA
Maxine Brodie is the University Librarian at Macquarie University and is also the University's senior officer for copyright and related issues. She moved to Macquarie in 2002 as Deputy University Librarian after working for 5 years as Director of Information Technology at the State Library of New South Wales. Prior to this Maxine spent 14 years as a senior manager in client, collection and management services at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she also played an active part in IT Strategic Planning for both the Library and the academic and administrative areas of the University.
Throughout her career she has been active in professional activities within the Australian Library and Information Association and was the Chair of the Standards Association of Australia Committee IT/19 from 2002-2005. Maxine has a strong professional interest in the application of IT to improve service provision and in the vital role of information workers in the electronic age. She has published several articles and conference papers on library/IT planning and service issues.
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Andrew Finegan
Andrew Finegan decided to become a librarian a number of years ago, when he graduated from his Arts Degree and realised that his only other real options were to go into administration or teaching. After spending almost two years working in public libraries in Melbourne, he has recently migrated to the Top End to start his new career as a Liaison Librarian, where he teaches crocodiles how to use online databases. In his spare time, he likes to write songs, and fancies himself as a contender to be the next Librarian Idol (still under negotiation with Channel Ten).
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Roxanne Missingham
Roxanne Missingham is Parliamentary Librarian, Australian Parliamentary Library and is responsible for delivery of information, analysis and advice services to the parliamentary, particularly Senators and Members. The Library provides approximately 20,000 commissioned pieces of research and over 250 general briefs and publications each year. It also provides extensive online news and information databases including radio and television programs.
Her career includes roles of Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Services at the National Library of Australia (2001-2005), Director of Reader Service at the National Library, (1999 - 2001), Divisional Librarian, CSIRO Wildlife & Ecology (1995 - 1999), Library Director Australian Nature Conservation Agency (1991 - 1994). She has also worked in the other government libraries.
She is Vice president of the Australian Library and Information Association and has won a number of awards.
Widely known as someone who can talk underwater with her mouth full of rocks, Roxanne is also a passionate quilter.
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Andrew Wells, University Librarian, University of New South Wales
My first library job was accessioning serials at the University of Queensland Library in 1975 while I completed a B Sc (after completing three years of engineering, I did not see my future as an engineer). In those days, we were moved around (no asking for permission) and I was transferred to cataloguing. This proved to be a major turning point: by 1982, I was a senior librarian in the Cataloguing Department at UNSW Library. In 1986, my personal circumstances changed and I was able to work part-time while I completed a MA in philosophy at Macquarie University. I worked part-time in Sydney and London. It was easy finding work anywhere having cataloguing skills.
On my return to Australia in 1990, I joined the State Library of New South Wales. I stayed there nearly six years and had four different jobs. I was lucky to gain so much experience in such a great institution. Here I learnt about the importance of public libraries. I worked in public libraries for a short time as the Chief Librarian of the Darwin Public Library and Information Service.
In 1996, I went to the National Library as Director, Technical Services. This lasted a whole four months until I was transferred to take a key role in what eventually became Kinetica (now Libraries Australia). I learnt a lot about keeping one's attention on the important things, and maintaining stamina through very busy and demanding periods.
I returned to Sydney in 2001 and came back to UNSW as University Librarian. I have just commenced my sixth year in this position. I enjoy leading an organisation through a period of enormous change and new opportunities. Serving research, teaching and learning drives what we do in university libraries.
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Tania Barry
Tania started her career in libraries as a part time shelver, which led to employment as a part time circulation officer at Wyndham Library. Whilst working part time at Wyndham, she also worked as a cataloguer at a local primary school, as the Werribee/Wyndham Heritage Project Officer and as a Community Links Project Officer, building sustainable links between the community, local businesses and three disadvantaged schools. In 2004 Tania commenced full time employment at Wyndham Library as the Children's and Youth Services Librarian, where she has played a pivotal role in developing partnerships with community groups. She graduated with a BA in Library and Information Science from Charles Sturt University in 2006. In September this year she was appointed as the Children's and Youth Library Services Coordinator, managing the Children's and Youth Services department at Wyndham Library. She is also the recipient of the 2006 ALIA Metcalfe Award.
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Kate Sinclair
Kate's first job in libraries was as a student assistant at her University Library, while she was completing her Honours in Latin. After realising that classical scholarship was not the career for her, she turned to librarianship and studied part-time while working in a range of different academic library departments. She received her Graduate Diploma in Information Studies in 1999 and has since worked in a range of positions in academic, special and public libraries.
In 2000, she was one of the co-founders of SALIN, the South Australian Library and Information Network, a networking group for new graduates which now numbers over 500 members. Since 2003 she has been a member of the ALIA New Generation Policy and Advisory Group.
She was Convenor of the 2nd ALIA New Librarians' Symposium in 2004 and received the ALIA Metcalfe Award in 2005.
She is currently Senior Liaison Librarian at Flinders University Library. In her future career, she looks forward to roles that are fun, challenging and involve work that she is passionate about!
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Alan Smith
Also presenting: Networking 101: Part One – Intermediate – Dinners; Part Two – Advanced – Cocktail Parties and Foyers
Alan took up his new position as Director of the State Library of South Australia in August 2004. This was 25 years after he had last worked as a librarian.
As a 15 year old school student and later at University he worked part-time as a library assistant at his local public library and was a dab hand with the date stamp. However, he was considered too clumsy to be allowed to stick on the plastic protective jackets. (he always got bubbles in the plastic). After graduating from university, he travelled extensively in Europe, before returning broke and jobless to Melbourne. Realizing after 4 days as a trainee tram conductor that he was really too short to make it a career, he returned to libraries as a library officer at Melbourne University and then ended up in charge of 13 small specialist libraries for a federal government department.
In 1979, the day after he completed his library studies, he began a career in museums. He has been curator of Melbourne Properties for the National Trust; Historian for Telecom; Curator of Werribee Park; a major events Manager, a Sponsorship Manager; Director of the South Australian Maritime Museum, and Director of Carrick Hill. Alan has a BA, a Graduate Diploma in Librarianship and a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies. His ambition is to work with the State Library and the Public Library sector to help give South Australia the best library service in the country.
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Helen Partridge
Workforce planning: the new librarian's perspective!
Helen Partridge is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology. She teaches in the areas of information retrieval, reference and information services, collection and access management, information literacy education and professional practice. Helen is actively involved in a number of research projects exploring the many issues associated with library studies education. Her recent work with Dr Gillian Hallam lead to the developed of the DNA Model of the skills and knowledge of the modern day library and information professional. Prior to joining QUT, she worked as a librarian in public and special libraries. Helen is a member of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the Association for Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) and the Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA). In 2006 Helen was elected to the ALIA Board of Directors.
Helen is currently completing a PhD exploring the psychological perspective of the digital divide within community. Her research interests include people’s experience of information and ICT in their everyday life, evidence based library and information practice and library and information science education.
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Emily Barton
Adapting Open Source Software to Benefit the Library: One New Librarian’s Experience in Changing the Processes of a Large Academic Library during the First Year of Employment
Emily Barton is a Reference and Technology Librarian at Michigan State University Libraries. A recent graduate of the University of Michigan School of Information, Emily specializes in Science Librarianship and Technology related projects.
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Peter Blake
Using a wiki for information services: principles and practicalities
Peter Blake is an Electronic Services Librarian at Australian Catholic University. He has previously held library positions at the University of Essex and Loughborough University in the UK, and has also spent time studying mathematics at Cambridge University, performing linguistic research in Papua New Guinea, and writing puzzles for PerplexCity.com.
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Libbie Blanchard and Joanne Keleher
Federated Searching: Is the death toll sounding for Information Literacy? Do we really want to Google our libraries?(Peer Reviewed)
Libbie Blanchard: Graduate Diploma of Information and Library Management (2005). 8 years experience in a variety of library roles at Central Queensland University Library and currently employed as a Reference Librarian.
Joanne Keleher: In final year of undergraduate BALIS degree from Charles Sturt University. 16 years experience in a variety of library roles. Currently acting in the role as a Reference Librarian at Central Queensland University.
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Rachele Carnevale, Anna Zylstra, Catherine Chambers
Rock & Rhyme: development and implementation of an early children's development program at the State Library of Tasmania (Peer Reviewed)
Catherine Chambers graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2003 , with a Graduate Diploma in Information Management. Catherine has been working as a librarian at the State Library of Tasmania since 2004 in various positions including public library, reference and systems work. She currently works in the Systems Support and Development section of the State Library of Tasmania.
Rachele Carnevale holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Sociology and a Graduate Diploma of Information Management from the University of Tasmania. She has worked in a variety of libraries in Victoria and Tasmania and is currently working as an Information Architecture and Metadata librarian at the State Library of Tasmania.
Anna Zylstra holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of Tasmania. Anna has worked at the State Library of Tasmania since 2004 and has worked in a variety of positions in both lending and reference services. Anna is currently Acting Senior Librarian Resources Management for the State Reference Service and Hobart Lending Library, State Library of Tasmania.
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Rebecca Daly
The University of Wollongong Library Cadetship experience: developing the skills for a career in librarianship
Professional Cadet, 2005-2006, University of Wollongong Library
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Kate Davis
whY generation? Millennials as managers, or the future of library management (Peer Reviewed)
Kate Davis holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Literary Studies from the University of Queensland, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies from the Queensland University of Technology.
In 2005, Kate was one of three participants in the Graduate Program at the National Library of Australia. On completion of the Program, she worked for six months in the Australian Serials unit. Kate is currently working as a Reference Librarian in Information Services at the Library.
Her professional and research interests include: digital service delivery, specifically virtual reference service provision; the value of information literacy instruction in improving library users' ability to locate, access, analyse and synthesise information; and the changing demographic of the library and information workforce.
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Merindi Derrick
Where are they now? A longitudinal analysis of LIS mentees
Merindi Derrick is a Liaison Libraran at Southbank Institute of Technology. She was a participant in the ALIA professional mentoring program in 2005 (as a mentee) and became interested in the way the impacts of mentoring programs can last longer than the formal program.
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Louise Driscoll
Acting the Part: the opportunities of taking Higher Duties
Louise Driscoll graduated from Curtin University of Technology in 2002, with a Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Studies, and is currently working as a librarian in the technical services area, predominately with serials and electronic resources at the University of Western Australia.
Louise has been working at UWA since 1997, starting there as a library officer, and has been working as a librarian since mid 2003.
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Kristie Jones
Cairns Libraries: Building Connections
Kristie Jones is the first dedicated Children's Librarian at Cairns Libraries. Since her appointment in October 2005, she has initiated partnerships with primary and secondary schools, developed school holiday activities and been involved extensively in local events and festivals. She organised a program of speakers on young people's literacy for the Queensland Public Libraries conference held in Cairns, June 2006. Recently, she launched the Cairns Libraries mascot, Dewey, and new children's club "The Kid's Fishing Hole". Incorporating the mascot and children's club, she has developed a fun and educational program for primary schools that reached 1790 students in Children's Book Week 2006 alone.
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Maggie McCafferty
Time in Timor : working overseas as a volunteer
Maggie works as Knowledge Resource Manager at the Rutherglen Centre of the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. She has worked in libraries for over 25 years, in Melbourne and country Victoria. Maggie recently finished her BAppSc(LIM) through distance education from Charles Sturt University.
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Duncan McLachlan
Your Library is a Marketing Organisation
Duncan McLachlan is a future thinking strategist and marketer.
He leverages his broad knowledge base incorporating ITC, entrepreneurship, leadership and management. Experienced across the Government, Not for Profit and Commercial sectors, he challenges norms and seeds projects that explore new ways of working - insurgency ranks highly.
A relaxed and creative working style means people quickly feel at ease with him. He has an ability to help other people's ideas take flight.
In recent years (7) Duncan has concentrated on leading the marketing team at Wellington City Libraries in new product, service and promotion development and serving on the Libraries' Leadership Team.
Over the same period Duncan has continued to work on projects in the commercial sector, particularly within ICT and media industries, and coach entrepreneurs to help build their businesses.
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Catherine Miller and Theresa McGinley
Me, Myself and IM
Graduating from the University of South Australia in 2004, fresh-faced with our library degrees safely stored in our colour coordinated personal filing cabinets, we thought the world of Library and Information Management was our oyster. We were ready to embark on our journeys of fun-filled patron interactions, copy-cataloguing and interlibrary loans. With part-time jobs in public libraries, our LIS skills began to blossom, but curiosity kept us looking at the job market. We ended up in IM - the land of the tech-savvy, bureaucracy driven, jargon-ated, good ol' computer geek. Everything we love!
Theresa now works as an Information Knowledge Management Officer with the Department for Families and Communities, Govt. of SA. Cathy works as an Information Officer with education.au limited.
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Tania Barry
Pathways to the community: the possibilities are endless…
Tania started her career in libraries as a part time shelver, which led to employment as a part time circulation officer at Wyndham Library. Whilst working part time at Wyndham, she also worked as a cataloguer at a local primary school, as the Werribee/Wyndham Heritage Project Officer and as a Community Links Project Officer, building sustainable links between the community, local businesses and three disadvantaged schools. In 2004 Tania commenced full time employment at Wyndham Library as the Children’s and Youth Services Librarian, where she has played a pivotal role in developing partnerships with community groups. She graduated with a BA in Library and Information Science from Charles Sturt University in 2006. In September this year she was appointed as the Children’s and Youth Library Services Coordinator, managing the Children’s and Youth Services department at Wyndham Library. She is also the recipient of the 2006 ALIA Metcalfe Award.
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Graham Black
Is life in the fast lane always the best lane?
Graham Black is Director of Library Services at Central Queensland University. He has a BA, Grad Dip Lib and an MBA. Graham has worked in regional centres for all but 6 years of his 24 years within the profession. Graham's professional interests include library management, leadership, and facilities.
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Suzanne Byke and Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen
Following to the Top and Leading from the Bottom (Peer Reviewed)
Suzanne Byke is the Undergraduate Programs Librarian at Florida State University. Upon graduating in the summer of 2005 from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Suzanne obtained a position as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at FSU. Together with Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen, Suzanne is building an innovative and dynamic department with services and programs to serve the burgeoning undergraduate population of Florida State University.
Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen is the Undergraduate Information Services Librarian at Florida State University. From 2003 to 2006, Dawn held the position of Coordinator for Assessment and Staff Development for the FSU Libraries. Dawn graduated from Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science in May 2003. Dawn has presented poster sessions at the Association of College and Research Libraries bi-annual conference in 2005 and at the Association of Research Libraries LibQUAL+ Sharefair at the American Library Association annual conference in 2005.
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John Chisholm
Skin of Your Teeth Library Management: How to Survive Falling Up the Career Ladder
During 2005, John, a librarian with two years post-graduate experience found himself in the Manager’s office. While this had not been unusual during his ten years as an Assistant Library Technician, on this occasion he was not being pulled into line, but was ‘Acting in Higher Duties’.
For six months Alice Springs Public Library was made glorious summer by this son of ALIA. During this time John discovered that his experiences at the bottom of the pecking order had prepared him wonderfully for many aspects of library management, but that there were some things for which he was woefully unprepared.
Having now returned to his own duties (via six months as Operations Librarian), John has enrolled in a Master of Business program in order to prepare himself for his inevitable rise to power in the cut and thrust world of Libraries.
In the meanwhile he has taken time out from his latest assignment to distil the wisdom learned during his time in the big leather chair of management and to present it as...
Skin of Your Teeth Library Management:
How to Survive Falling Up the Career Ladder
John has been on the executive of ALIA Central Australia for two years and is currently involved in preparing their submission for the 2008 ALIA biennial conference.
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Lisa Cotter and Mary Grimmond
Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) - strut the catwalk to reveal your inner supermodel (Peer Reviewed)
Lisa Cotter, School Librarian (Nursing and Midwifery), is based at Central Coast Health Service Library, in a position jointly funded by Northern Sydney Central Coast Health, and The University of Newcastle. Her paper describing an intranet usability study, at the 3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference, was awarded the QUT Award for Best Presenter Special Commendation.
Mary Grimmond, Library Technician, has worked for the Central Coast Health Service Library since 2004, after 10 years experience in the public library sector. Mary was the winner of the QUT Award for Best Poster at the 3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference, for her poster “Rehabilitating the Stroke Collection”
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Matthew Davis
Freedom of Access to Information post September 11, 2001
Bachelor of Science Undergraduate (USyd) with a Postgraduate diploma of Information Management from UTS (2004).
Worked as a Library Assistant at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, a Librarian at Mosman Public Library and now as a Medical Librarian for Sydney South West Area Health Service.
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Kael Driscoll
Librarians in the Looking Glass: Reflections of Our Profession in Popular Culture
I am a Reference Librarian at UWA, and I have worked in all the subject libraries around campus. I received my Grad Dip in LIS from Curtin in 2002, so I am into my 4th year of professional work, after 6 years of being a library officer.
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Nancy Fawley
Have MLIS, will travel
Nancy Fawley is the reference librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar in the Arabian Gulf. She received her MLIS from the University of Kentucky in the United States and was awarded the school’s Melody Trosper award for excellence in academics, leadership and service.
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Richard Lehane
Allowing talking in the Reading Room: user collaboration in archive websites (Peer Reviewed)
I am a Sydneysider, but currently living in Liverpool, England, where I am undertaking a Masters of Archives and Records Management at the University of Liverpool (complete in September).
I have a PhD in History from the University of Sydney, which I completed in 2005 (which is why I chose to do my archival training overseas - five years study at home and I had very itchy feet and wanted to do some travel alongside the learning).
Richard recently commenced work as an Indexing Officer at State Records NSW.
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Beth Lonergan, Bronwyn Ryan and Renée Shuttleworth
Managing the retirement brain drain: A case-study from the Manuscripts Branch at the National Library of Australia
Bronwyn Ryan
Bronwyn Ryan joined the Library in 2003 as part of the Library's Graduate Recruitment Program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History from Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. Since completing the program she has worked in a number of different sections of the Library including Preservation Services and PictureAustralia. Bronwyn got a taste for Manuscripts in one of her rotations on the Graduate Program and has worked in the Manuscripts Branch since March 2005.
Renée Shuttleworth
Renée Shuttleworth began working at the Manuscripts Branch of the National Library in 2004, and currently works in the Music cataloguing team within the Monographs Branch. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Disability Studies and embarked on a new career after completing a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Management at the University of Canberra in 2003 .
Beth Lonergan
Beth Lonergan was part of the National Library's Graduate Program in 2005. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History and Indonesian studies from the University of New South Wales, and a Masters in Museum Studies from the University of Sydney. She has worked in the Library's Manuscripts branch since the completion of the program in November 2005, while also working in the Library's Information Services and Pictures branches.
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Vanessa O'Meara and Melanie Adam
So you want to be a law librarian?
Vanessa O'Meara, BA, Dip. Lib., M.Management, Grad Dip Crim. Manager, Information Services, Law Courts Library, NSW
Melanie Adam, BA (Information Management). Library Manager, Blake Dawson Waldron, Sydney
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Lisa Paul
Librarian as Lecturer: how information literacy is paving the way for librarians to be integrated into student’s learning with advantages for both the student and your career
I have been working as Law Librarian at Griffith University from March 2005 til now. Prior to this I was Knowledge Manager at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in London. Before moving overseas, my position was as law and humanities liaison librarian at Bond University and I have also worked for Brisbane City Council Library Services.
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Sharon Uthmann
Babes and Books: Balancing Parenting and a Library Career
Sharon has been working at QUT since October 2000 in various positions including: Document Delivery Assistant, Monographs Assistant, Library Systems Officer & Reference Librarian. Prior to this, she has had numerous employers. Currently on Maternity Leave due to the birth of her daughter, Anaki in February this year, Sharon is blancing work on her ALIA Dunn & Wilson Scholarship (awarded in 2005) and completing a BA (Library and Information Science).
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