Interview Skills Seminar

When: Wednesday 21 September, 5:45pm for a 6:00pm start, until approximately 7:30pm.
Where: RMIT University Swanston Library, Seminar Room 1, Building 8, Level 5, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Cost: $3 (ALIA members/students), $5 (non-ALIA members).
Nibbles provided.

Library officer traineeship

Here's a link to a library job. Please note that once the job closes the link will stop working...

ALIA wiki

Here's a link to a page with some interesting articles about interlibrary loans.

Want to get your resume checked?

Want to get your resume checked and get tips on applying for jobs? Click here to find out about VU's 'expo' on next week (25-28 July 2011).

VU student satisfaction survey

Click here to link to info about the VU student satisfaction survey.

Derek Sivers: How to start a movement

Go to TED to see how to start a movement.

Research skills workshop - State Library

There's another interesting workshop on at the State Library, for anyone who's interested... Click here for details.

New Member

I have been admitted to Margies Little Helpers.
I wanted to tidy up the notice board and get rid of out of date stuff but have been advised that it operates on the toilet paper model.
So I have learnt something new today.
Stephanie

Barack Obama's Lion King Movie Birth Video at White house Dinner 2011

Your law collection at the State Library

Come along for a tour of the State Library's law collection. It will be followed by a session on electronic legal resources.

Dates and times: Monday 16 May 2011, 1.00-2.45pm, Wednesday 18 may 2011, 1.00-2.45pm, Friday 20 May 2011, 1.00-2.45pm
Cost: Free
Bookings: email bookings@slv.vic.gov.au or phone 8664 7099

Accessing library information online at the SLV

There's another seminar the State Library of Victoria. This one is to help you learn how to find in-depth and up-to-date information using your computer.

Date: Monday 16 May 2011
Time: 2.00-3.00pm
Cost: Free

Meet in the front foyer.

Library careers evening at the SLV

Have a look here to find the information for the Library careers evening at the State Library of Victoria.

It's on Tuesday 24 May 2011, 5:30pm-7.00pm and it's free.

Mary's delicious links

Here's a link to Mary's delicious page with lots of useful library links.

The Librarian of the Unseen University

The Librarian

Another ALIA social event - Thursday 7 April

Hi everyone, just to let you know that there's another ALIA social event coming up, in case you didn't get the email from Ian. It's on Thursday 7 April and you have to RSVP by noon the day before.

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Geek Tech

Universal Donates 200,000 Master Recordings to Library of Congress

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PCWorld Jan 11, 2011 10:58 AM

At least someone in the music industry is trying to keep up with the Internet age--Universal Music Group is donating over 200,000 vintage master recordings to the Library of Congress.

The Library plans to catalog and digitize the collection and make it available for public online streaming this upcoming spring. The collection features historic recordings from Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, and Louis Armstrong among others, including "Frim Fram Sauce" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby, and "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Louis Armstrong.

"It is certainly within the national interest to acquire this recorded collection, and all its accompanying materials, for custodial care," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a press release Monday, "A surprisingly high percentage of America's recording heritage since the early part of the 20th century has been lost due to neglect and deterioration."

The collection will be digitized at the Library's Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. The Library's Recorded Sound Section currently has around three million items, most of which are noncommercial.

Engadget points out that it does not appear that the intellectual property rights will pass with the recordings, "as the press release states this agreement continues the Library's 'unprecedented autority to stream commercially owned sound recordings online.'"

[ArsTechnica via Engadget / Photo: Vibragiel on Flickr; used under Creative Commons]

[ALIA] Library folk in the pub, Melbourne, Wednesday 16 March 2011‏

Just saw the email from Ian about an ALIA social event next week. Anyone want to go? If so we need to RSVP by Tuesday 15 March at 12 noon (to the email address provided in Ian's email).

Cataloguing 2 - March 9

Just in case anyone is interested here are a few of the main things we did today (definitely _not_ a comprehensive record) ...

We started looking at MARC and did Self Help Exercises 1 & 2. There are notes in the materials (have a look around p 28 - there are different page numbers in different versions).

Main website

The main website to look at for today's class was the Library of Congress page: MARC 21 format for bibliographic data. You can either use that link to go directly there, or go to http://www.loc.gov/marc then click on the Bibliographic link (on the left under the heading 'MARC formats').

This links you to the pages you need to look at to do Self Help Exercises 1 & 2 (which we worked on in class).

Other things
We had a look at:
* metadata (and some webpages - see sites listed in the materials)
* Dublin Core elements
* Getty elements

Placements 2011

Just a note - Ian said that Paula would be coming to Cataloguing 2 today (Wed) to speak to us about placements.

Careers fair - Tuesday 8 March

Hi everyone. Just wondering if anyone is going to the careers fair next week. Here's a link to the page with the info - I'm not sure if you have to log in as a student to be able to look at it though.