April CPD event cancelled

Due to low attendance numbers, this event at the University of Qld has been cancelled.

Next event coming in May!

Delay in production of Qld Legislation bound volumes 2009

Helen Gambley reports that there has been a delay in the production of the 2009 Queensland Acts As Passed Bound volumes.

Due to Franklin Book Binders closing down, SDS Publications have had to find new binders so it has taken longer than usual.

They should hopefully be with everyone within the next 4 to 5 days.

April CPD event - an update on Web 2.0 tools

Looking forward to the ALLAQ April CPD event - an update on Web 2.0 tools

RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, twitter, podcasts.

Date: 29th April

Time: 5-6pm

Where: Social Sciences & Humanities Library (UQ)Travel:

City Cat leaves from the Riverside Centre at 4.09pm or 4.22pm.

This is a link to the UQ Social Sciences Library so that you can find your way. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/#location

Following the session we can adjourn to the Pizza Cafe for drinks and pizza at your own expense.

Please RSVP to allaq.cpd@gmail.com by the 27th April 2010.

This event is open to all ALLAQ members.

Twitter archives

Google announces that they are already online with a searchable version of the new Twitter archive. As of today, the Google’s Twitter archive only goes back a few months to February, 2010 but “eventually” the entire archive back to day one would be available and searchable.

See article - The Twitter Archives from the Library of Congress & Google: The Facts As We Know Them

Govt agencies move on social media policy

Federal Government departments have revealed they are moving ahead to implement social media policies, despite the government having not yet responded to recommendations in the Government 2.0 Taskforce report.

see full article

Report from Berkeley School of Law comparing Information Privacy Attitudes amongst Young Adults and Older Adults

Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies, How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults

Many commentators claim that young people “are less concerned with maintaining privacy than older people are.” Surprisingly, though, few empirical investigations have explored the privacy attitudes of young adults. This report is among the first quantitative studies evaluating young adults’ attitudes. It demonstrates that the picture is more nuanced than portrayed in the popular media.

A gap in privacy knowledge provides one explanation for the apparent license with which the young behave online.

Get member rates at ALIA events

Thanks to the memorandum of understanding signed with ALIA, our members now get member rates to ALIA conferences and events.

The program for ALIA Access 2010 conference 1-3 September is shaping up to be really exciting. Find out more by signing up to receive regular updates. Registration opens 1 April.

BIALL Scholarship announced!

How would you like $A3000 towards travel and accommodation costs to attend the BIALL Conference ?

This scholarship, generously sponsored by Justis, is a great professional development opportunity, offered only to ALLA members.

The British & Irish Association of Law Librarians conference "Risks and Opportunities" will be held in Brighton, UK in June 2010. The conference program is highly relevant to Australian law librarians, including such topics as alternate models for managing information resources in law firms, outsourcing, and managing online library spend. Previous scholarship winners have reported that this is very worthwhile.

Applications close soon (12 April) so if you're interested, get yourself to the Scholarships page on the ALLA website to find out the selection criteria and how to apply.

CCHatter - keep up to date with CCH

To keep up to date with Intelliconnect developments, check out CCH's blog Cchatter .

This is where they release information about feature updates - like the recent inclusion of source details in the title of each search result, and the new "print for court" capability.

Not a lot of content there at the moment, but it does look promising and certainly worth adding to your RSS reader.

Podcast: RTI Act CPD event

Podcast of the Right to Information Act CPD event held 8 March 2010.

Podcast: QCAT CPD Event

Podcast of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) CPD event held 17 February 2010.

Podcast: National Model Discussion

Podcast of the discussion on the Proposed National Constitution for the Australian Law Librarians' Association, held 28 January 2010.

data.australia.gov.au

http://data.australia.gov.au/
data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. Currently in beta.

"The australia.gov.au search is a fast, current and comprehensivefull-text search service with access to over 4 million resources fromover 900 Australian Government sites as well as State and TerritoryGovernment sites."

It also has a RSS feed capabilityhttp://australia.gov.au/news-and-media/media-release-rss-feeds

Alerting services

Recently there was a product launched called FeedWatch, with combines RSS with InterAction (widely used as a client management system by lawfirms) - http://fellsoft.com/feedwatch.aspx

Moreover has been around for a while, but is now utilising Open Calais to create feeds on topics - http://w.moreover.com/

Ideas for CPD activities

Tell us what CPD activities you would like.

Email: allaq.cpe@gmail.com or add a comment to this post.

What would you like training in?
What training can you offer?
Who would you like as a speaker?
what subject areas interest you?

Media 140 videos

ABC Fora TV is streaming a couple of sessions from the recent Media 140 Sydney conference.

Tweeting Question Time: www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/11/20/2748926.htm
Twitter and the Iranian Democracy Uprising: www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/11/20/2748957.htm

More information on what Media 140 is all about can be found at www.aroundtheworldin140days.com

Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal starts 1 Dec 2009

From 1 December 2009 a number of tribunals will amalgamate into the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT).

QCAT will hear a variety of matters including tenancy and building disputes, guardianship and discrimination matters as well as professional and vocational disciplinary matters.

For more information see http://www.tribunalsreview.qld.gov.au/

Queensland Industrial Gazette ceases publication

The last Queensland Industrial Gazette was issued on 23 October 2009.

The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) website is now the official publisher of decisions, awards, agreements, orders and other documents of the Industrial Court of Queensland (ICQ), the QIRC and the Industrial Registrar. Amendments to the Industrial Relations Act 1999 ensure that a document, decision etc. published on the QIRC website is admissible as evidence of the document in Court proceedings.[see s. 680 of the Act]

For a list of decisions from 23 October, see http://www.qirc.qld.gov.au/published/index.htm

The Industrial Gazette was also used by a number of agencies and organisations to publish important industrial notices - these will now be published in the Queensland Government Gazette.

A chance to win a $50 voucher - complete our 1–minute Member Survey

Your committee have commenced planning for the coming year, and to help us make it a memorable one, we'd like to hear from you

Completing our short Member Survey will give us information about your preferences and what really matters to you – and it gives you the chance to win a $50 Myer voucher!

• All members were sent the link to the survey via the ALLA-Qld list. Contact your Committee if you don't have it
  

CPE - Introduction to Repositories

Short on physical space in your Library? Perhaps creating a digital repository is the answer.

ALIA and QUT´s School of Information Technology are running a full day course on setting up repositories. Introduction to Repositories will introduce you to the key concepts, principles and skills involved in establishing and/or managing a successful repository.

For more information see the QUT Professional development courses website