Region's librarians attend information week sessions
Published on 01 June, 2005
Central Queensland University hosted Rockhampton’s Library and Information Week events last Thursday.
About 20 people attended the professional development workshop where Dr Gillian Hallam, President-Elect of the Australian Library Information Association, provided a professional development overview, and UQ Ipswich Library Manager Sue Hutley presented the new models of service delivery at UQ Ipswich.
About 35 people attended the library wine and cheese evening, hosted by the Faculty of Informatics and Communication and CQU Library.
People from around the region attended including librarians from Ergon Energy, Livingstone Shire Council, Rockhampton City Council and local hospitals, along with students from Charles Sturt University studying to become librarians.
Guest speakers spoke on the dynamic information, professional and generational change in Australian libraries.
Greg Whymark, Associate Professor with the Faculty, made a presentation on 'Is Knowledge Management an Oxymoron?'.
Electronic Services Librarian Kate Watson said all the speakers were wonderful and lots of networking took place.
A library trivia competition run by the Rockhampton City Council library was won by CQU Library Director Graham Black.
Photo above: Associate Professor Greg Whymark makes a presentation to the region's librarians last week.
Photo left: Attending the Wine and Cheese evening were Janet Iffinger, William Chun and Sandra Cochrane.