ALIA General Council
1999 General Councillors
A comment [and e-mail contact address] from each general councillor appear at the foot of this table. Use the links in the table to view each respective comment. At the time of this update, some information is still forthcoming.
| policy portfolios | communication portfolios | ||
| President | Craig Anderson | Strategic planning (including Renewal Working Group) Finance |
Inter Association relations Public Libraries CYSS |
| Vice-president | Mairéad Browne | Awards | Information science |
| Past president | John Shipp | International relations Copyright |
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| Chair, B of E | Colette McCool | Education and training | ELISS Schools |
| ACT | Tony Ralli | Standards and guidelines | |
| NSW | Beth McLaren | Constitutional matters | TAFE |
| NT | Ann Alderslade | Health RAISS Rural and isolated |
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| Qld | Jim Graham | Institutional members | UCRLS |
| SA | Ian McBain | Information literacy | |
| Tas | Chris Richardson | Industrial relations and workplace | Specials |
| Vic | Trevor Wakely | Acquisitions Cataloguers Library Technicians |
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| WA | Imogen Garner | Intellectual freedom | Local studies GC Board of Ed. rep. |
| personal | Marion Boyd | - | - |
| personal | Carolyn Young | - | - |
| institutional | Ruth McIntyre | - | - |
| institutional | Janette Wright | - | - |
Craig Anderson, ALIA president will hopefully put words here one day...
Mairéad Browne, ALIA vice-president
Her fear is that as a professional group we are ill-equipped for practice in a global 'information society'. It is critical that we tackle the question of preparation of information workers at all levels to work effectively in the 'information society', so Mairéad would like to engage the Association in debates and discussion to unravel the implications of globalisation for our profession and the Association.
John Shipp was ALIA president in 1998 and is also university librarian at the University of Sydney. Prior to his appointment at
Sydney in August 1997, John was university librarian at the University of Wollongong for ten years. After graduating from Macquarie University, John taught primary and infant children before going to Britain. On his return, he retrained and became an
archivist. From 1991 to 1996, John was president of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and in that capacity developed a broad view of issues affecting higher education as well as tertiary sector libraries. For some years he has
co-ordinated a database access programme for CAUL and the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee. This programme has sought to provide better access to commercial information databases by negotiating on behalf of all university libraries. John has an
appreciation of the challenges facing most sectors of the library world. He is married to Val Moon, manager of the Ryde City Library in Sydney and this provides him with some understanding of the issues facing public libraries. His responsibilities at the
University of Sydney include remote agricultural libraries and small, specialised libraries in Sydney.
Colette McCool, chair of the Board of Education, moved from the Northern Territory to Cairns at the end of 1995 to take up the
position of director of health and Community Services with the newly-amalgamated Cairns City Council. Colette's departmental responsibilities cover health service, community services, waste management, arts, sport and recreation, and last but not least,
library services. The Cairns community is well-serviced with eight public library service points. Colette worked for twenty-five years in the library and information sector in the Northern Territory. During that time she was actively involved in the
association and in school, public and community libraries, and the Northern Territory Library. From 1991 until 1995 she was the director of the Northern Territory Library. In addition to her qualification in librarianship Colette has post-graduate
qualifications in education, applied linguistics and management. She brings to the ALIA Board of Education experience in grass-roots library administration, policy development and senior management.
Tony Ralli, the ACT general councillor, is the deputy librarian at the Australian Defence Force Academy Library in Canberra. His
experience in academic libraries extends back over twenty-five years both in Australia and the United Kingdom. He has been an Associate of the Association since arriving in Australia in 1973 and has held many offices in the Association including branch
president of both the ACT and WA Branches. He has also served as a member of the ABN Network Committee and recently as chairperson of the 1997 Annual ABN Users Meeting. He is particularly pleased to be on General Council at this exciting and challenging
time as we move towards the recreation of the Association. He has a wide general interest in professional affairs and in particular in issues relating to library management. He believes that we must strengthen our position by making it clear that
professionally-qualified library staff and properly accredited libraries do make a difference.
Beth McLaren is manager, Sydney Institute of Technology Library, Ultimo. Beth has held a number of positions with the NSW
Department of School Education including senior curriculum advisor, chief librarian and systems analyst. She has been a teacher-librarian in country and metropolitan government schools. Beth has been a member of a number of committees within the
Association and has held the office of president of the School Libraries Section (NSW Group), president of the TAFE Section (NSW Group) and president of NSW Branch. Beth has been a member of the By-Laws and Regulations Committee since 1996. Beth is
particularly interested in information literacy, information technology and the education and professional development of library and information workers. She has endeavoured to ensure that country members have opportunities to be involved in the
Association and that services provided by metropolitan-based divisions are also available to those in country areas. Beth is pleased to be a member of General Council during a period of significant change in the library and information sector and in ALIA
itself. She believes it is important that our new association will be one that will provide leadership, will be seen as relevant by members from a broad range of information professionals, will remain a powerful lobbying group and will retain a role in the
education of information professionals. She looks forward to representing NSW Branch on General Council and hopes that members will actively participate in the Association so that their views are known and she can accurately present the viewpoints of the
NSW membership on General Council.
elizabeth.mclaren@tafensw.edu.au
Ann Alderslade, is the newly-elected general councillor for the Northern Territory. Ann has lived in the Northern Territory
since 1981, and has held a variety of library positions and has been an active member of the Northern Territory Branch of ALIA ‹ including a term as president of the Northern Territory ALIA/ACLIS branch in 1998. This is not the first time Ann has
represented ALIA members on General Council. She was the Northern Territory general councillor in 198788. The profession has changed dramatically since then, and Ann am once again looking forward to the challenges of representing member interests. As well
as trying to keep up-to-date with the impact of information technology on the delivery of library services, Ann take an interest in public administration and health administration. She look forward to being part of shaping the new directions of ALIA as we
advance towards the Year 2000.
Jim Graham is the library manager of Australian Catholic University's McAuley campus library in Brisbane. Prior to
taking up this position in 1990, he worked in the Queensland TAFE library system where he was in charge of TAFE College Libraries in Rockhampton and Townsville before taking up a management position in the then TAFE library network centre in Brisbane. Jim
began his library career at the Queensland University of Technology library and has worked briefly in the public library sector. He has degrees from James Cook University, QUT and the University of Sheffield. Jim has held a variety of positions within the
association over the last 18 years, including the last two years as a branch councillor in Queensland. He has been president of the Queensland TAFE Section, the North Queensland regional group and the Central Queensland regional group. At present the
association is engaged in a process of renewal which has been catalysed by the attempt to merge ACLIS and ALIA. Jim hopes to make a positive contribution to the deliberations of general council to ensure that this opportunity for the renewal and
revitalisation of our Association is not lost.
Ian McBain will put some words here soon...
Chris Richardson is Systems
Librarian (Projects) at the State Library of Tasmania. Chris began work at the State Library of South Australia and her career has spanned public, special, academic and TAFE libraries in South Australia, ACT and Tasmania. However Specials have always been
her first choice and she enjoys the involvement that comes from working in the environment of a special library. For the last three years Chris has been president of the Tasmanian Branch, prior to which she served terms as treasurer and president of the
Specials Section, Tasmania and branch councillor. One of the most significant events of her term as branch president was the re-forming in Tasmania of the Library Technicians Section. This was spearheaded by a group of library technicians in the northwest
of Tasmania and Chris was honoured to be able to support their establishment and continuing success. ALIA has always been an important part of Chris' professional life and the network of friends and associates that she has formed through her involvement
with the Association has been invaluable. She looks forward to continuing her contribution to the Association and the profession as Tasmania's general councillor.
Christine.Richardson@central.tased.edu.au
Trevor Wakely, Victorian general councillor, graduated from the Library School of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
in 1982, after which he began working for the Department of Defence in a RAAF Supply section buying Macchi and Mirage jet parts! This typifies Trevor's work ethos - librarians are flexible and adaptable. Since then he has worked in special libraries in
the Defence Network and now the Bureau of Meteorology. Trevor's ALIA activities began in 1989 (Vic Specials publicity officer and newsletter editor 1989-1991) and two terms as Vic Specials president (1990-1991). Trevor was the 1992 president of the ALIA
Vic Branch and in 1994 served as Branch treasurer. Trevor's aims are to ensure the various ALIA sectors are involved in the decision-making process of General Council; together with membership re-generation by encouraging younger members to become more
active in ALIA. With his main work background being the special library sector, he looks forward to building on and furthering his network of colleagues in the other sectors to ensure he truly represents all views.
Imogen Garner, general councillor for Western Australia, is associate librarian, client services at The University of Western
Australia Library. Imogen has held this position since 1990. Prior to this time she worked for the Education Department of Western Australia. She was a teacher-librarian in secondary schools for six years, then worked in central office as a library
adviser, senior education officer and co-ordinator of the Curriculum Materials Information Service. Imogen has been a member of Branch Council (WA section), president of UCRLS (WA section) and a member of the School Libraries section. She aims to
contribute to ALIA policy on behalf of members particularly in the areas of information literacy, information technology and effective communication between members and ALIA as a new organisation.
Marion Boyd will put some words here soon...
Carolyn Young is the associate director, library services at Queensland University of Technology Library with
responsibility for information resource management, lending and document delivery. Previously she was technical services librarian at QUT Library. She started her 30 year career in academic libraries as a library assistant in serials, and has worked in
reference, technical services, collection development and management areas. Carolyn is currently ALIA Queensland branch treasurer, and was president of ACLIS/ALIA Qld State Council in 1998. During the past 12 years she has been vice-president of ALIA Qld
Branch, continuing education officer and branch councillor. She has been an AIMA trainer for 13 years.
Ruth McIntyre has specialised in delivery of agricultural information, having been librarian at the CSIRO Pastoral Research
Laboratory in Armidale (NSW) and WA Farmers Federation. Ruth is currently information resources manager of Kondinin Group, a national supplier of information to agricultural industries, where she has worked since 1995. Ruth has been active in ALIA Special
Libraries Section (WA Group) for several years, was ACLIS WA national councillor during 1997/98, and is currently a member of ALIA WA Branch Council. In late 1998 Ruth became president of the Agricultural Information Association for Australasia, and was
also awarded the ALIA Special Libraries Section (WA Group) Special Librarian of the Year. Ruth is delighted to join General Council as an institutional representative, and believes that giving institutional members more influence in the decision-making
process of ALIA is an important step towards ALIA becoming more influential in the fields of copyright, excellence in management in information delivery, and fostering co-operation between institutions in all sectors of the Australian library and
information community. Ruth also strongly believes that there is a lot of room for improvement in the recognition and status of libraries and information professionals in the Australian community.
Janette Wright will put some words here soon...
janette_wright@waverley.nsw.gov.au