Library Technician Wanted

Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE

Applications are sought for a permanent full-time Library Technician at the Cairns Library. Position details are available on the Queensland SmartJobs website: Cadet Library Technician/Library Technician.

Closing date: 14 October 2010.

Rebecca Evans: Presentation and dinner

Thanks to everyone who came to the Rebecca Evans presentation and dinner on Thursday 26 June. I think everyone enjoyed the chance to meet colleagues from different libraries. Rebecca has taken on a very interesting project, and clearly faces many challenges in bringing together a historical record of library technicians from 1979 to the present. Rebecca is eager to get her hands on material representing Far North Queensland library technicians, so please dig deep within your keepsakes and files and send material on to her. Information about her project can be found on her wiki, or you can contact Rebecca via email. Rebecca’s project will be presented at the National Library and Information Technicians Conference in September 2009, and will fittingly mark ALIA’s 70th and Library Technicians’ 30th anniversaries.

My thanks to Sally-Ann Goeldner, Rosalyn Ingham and Cairns Libraries for providing us with a venue for the presentation (as well as much appreciated after-work refreshments).

Best wishes

Claire Ovaska
Technical Librarian for Regional Aviation

Invitation to an evening with Rebecca Evans

All library staff* are invited to an evening with Rebecca Evans on 26 June

Presentation on Preserving our Library Technician Heritage
TIME: 5.30pm
VENUE: Cairns Libraries City Branch Meeting Room 1

Followed by

Dinner with Rebecca Evans
TIME: 6.30pm
VENUE: Donnini’s Restaurant at The Pier

RSVP to Claire Ovaska (c.ovaska@flightlineservices.com.au) by Monday 23 June.

*Please pass this invitation on to any library technicians and assistants who may not be on my elist.

See the post below for more information about Rebecca Evans' Preserving our Library Technician Heritage project.

Rebecca Evans: Preserving our library heritage

Rebecca Evans is the current recipient of the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship. Her project will create an image database and oral history record of the activities and contributions of Library Technicians to the Library sector since 1979. This will form the beginnings of an historical record which can be built upon and expanded over time and will be ready in time for the 30th anniversary of Library Technicians.

Rebecca is looking for images (and other interesting material) that relate to your library groups’ history, making sure that all possible information for the image is collected and correct, eg. names, event, place, photographer. Please provide two copies of the images in a digital format – one at the highest resolution for archival purposes, and one at a slightly lower resolution. Alternatively you can provide Rebecca with the originals for her to make copies.

Have a look at her guidelines and suggestions.

Rebecca can be contact via email: rebeccaevans@bigpond.com