#tweetAugust : Get Ready to Tweet!

#tweetAugust starts on Monday the 1st of August!

Take the challenge to tweet once a day for a month! If you don’t think you can manage this - don’t despair – just try your best and get involved! If you haven’t used twitter before this is your chance to give it a go and see what all the fuss is about!

Why #tweetAugust?
Twitter is an excellent medium to connect and keep up to date with people and information. Getting involved in the #tweetAugust event will extent your PLN (personal learning network) and give you the opportunity to connect with library folk across Australia (and maybe further) and develop your professional online presence. Unlike blogs, tweets can be composed in a couple of minutes (including a non-smart phone) and can be quickly scanned and read - #tweetAugust doesn't need to take more than five minutes a day and that can be while you wait for the train or in the supermarket queue!

What to tweet about?
Anything you want! New technologies, exciting ideas, interesting facts, philosophies on our profession, daily gripes (often amusing and definitely welcome, but remember we aren’t talking in a closed room!).

Remember:
Make sure you remember to add the hashtag #tweetAugust to every tweet. By adding this tag you create a searchable link which we can all follow.

To get the ball rolling, here are some of the NGG teams twitter usernames:
@libodyssey
@acrystelle
@karina_tumon
@rombloggy
@MsBecstar
@melchivers
@YasmineShaheem
@kanji04

See you Monday on Twitter!

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Librarians! Lend me your ears! The ALIA New Graduate’s Group is kicking off the month of August with a social networking twitter blitz and we need you!

Join us in tweeting at least once each day of August using the hash tag #tweetAugust.

If you’ve never tweeted before, now is a great time to start. Social networking is an increasingly important tool for Librarians, plus you’ve probably already worked out how much Librarians love to network.

Join us!

Find fellow Librarian tweeters through #tweetAugust.

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Sign a petition to help save Victorian public libraries!

You may have seen in a recent article in The Age, 'State government plans to slash library funding', that the Baillieu government will slash funding to Victorian public libraries this year. This is likely to mean shorter opening hours and cuts to internet services and other projects. The opposition believes that disadvantaged communities will suffer most, where many residents use a library to access services (such as the internet) that they cannot otherwise afford.

The Age quoted recent departmental figures that show Victoria has around 290 permanent libraries and 26 mobile libraries, with 2.5 million Victorians members of their local libraries. Please sign this petition if you want your voice (and theirs) to be heard.

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How do you like to keep in touch with ALIA New Grads?

The ALIA New Graduates group has a variety of channels to reach out to new graduate librarians all over the country. We have our long-running ALIA email list, this blog and a Facebook page. We love to meet you face to face, but when that's not possible, tell us where you like to hook in.



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ALIA new graduates group SA presents the workshop:

Network your way into your dream job....

Networking – meeting and connecting with other people, exchanging information and ideas – is essential for anyone’s professional life, no matter what business or career you’re in! The rewards of good networking include contacts, job leads, fun, friendship and simply getting great ideas.

Find out just how much fun networking can be as our workshop leader Jennifer Osborn unmasks the secrets to – and benefits of – successful networking. In an entertaining and interactive evening, you’ll discover networking strengths you didn’t know you had…

When & What? Tuesday 23rd August, 6pm for 6.15pm start. One hour workshop including handout. Followed by networking drinks and nibbles.

Where? Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.

Cost $7 ALIA members, $10 non ALIA members.

RSVP By Friday 12th of August to Yasmine Shaheem, yasmine.shaheem@flinders.edu.au

Participation certificate available on request. Attendance at workshop = 1 PD point.

About our facilitator
Jennifer Osborn is a Research Librarian at the University of Adelaide, with
over 20 years professional experience and networks that run from the
formal (ALIA, Rostrum) to the not-so-formal (such as bus stops…!)

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Library Folk in the Pub Melbourne

There is no denying we are in the second half of the year! We are into a new tax year and second semester is starting, so lets get together over a drink and/or a bite to eat and meet new people and catch up with old friends!

We thought we would try somewhere different this month:
When: 28th July, from 6pm (table booked for ALIA)
Where: Three Degrees www.3degrees.com.au (located in QV: No 1 QV Sq Cnr Swanston & Lonsdale Sts)
Cost: own expense (but the company is free!) GT and vegetarian options

All welcome: there is no requirement to work in a library!

Please RSVP your attendance to mel.chivers@gmail.com by Monday 25th so we can confirm numbers.

Can't make it? Put next months LFIP in your calendar: 16th August (location TBC)


Your ALIA Vic New Graduates Group Committee
Daniel, Melanie, Noriko and Rebecca
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Goodbye Bonnie Dixon!

Bonnie has decided to step down from her position as Regional Co-ordinator for Queensland after several years of loyal service. We'll miss you Bonnie! Thank you for all your hard work and your valuable contribution to the ALIA New Grads Team! But never fear! You are still a part of the big Librarian family (nawwww...).

If anyone is interested in helping our remaining QLD Regional Co-ordinator, Alisa Howlett, let us know! It's great fun being a co-ordinator, and having a few peeps to spread the load really helps create awesome events.

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