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Job descriptions: Improving their currency, accuracy and usefulness

ALIA 1997 Library Technician Dunn & Wilson Scholarship, Lorraine Denny LibT ALIATec

This study was made possible through the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship and supported by the Australian Library & Information Association (ALIA), with sponsorship from LJ Cullen Bookbinders NSW, and Apollo-Moon Bookbinders Victoria.

This research project focused on examining job descriptions from an organisational perspective. The objectives of the project were to:

E-commerce for library promotion and sustainability: How library technicians can market themselves and their library's services online

ALIA 2003 Library Technician Dunn & Wilson Scholarship, Lothar von Retzlaff AssDipAppSc(LT) ALIATec

This study was made possible through the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship and supported by the Australian Library & Information Association (ALIA).

This paper explores e-commerce to determine how developments in technology, promotion and marketing in the commercial arena may be adapted for libraries, so they can utilise services and create infrastructure to ensure the use of the internet benefits libraries in maintaining future funding, relevance and existence.

Is there a career path for Library Technicians?

ALIA 2009 Library Technician Research Award, Janette Telford AFALIATec (CP)

The aim of the project is to see if there is a career path for Library Technicians or must they upgrade their qualifications to Librarian or Teacher Librarian to have one. Also the project will include looking at Library Technicians who have upgraded their qualifications to other degrees and those Library Technicians who have not.

Australian health libraries’ contributions to hospital accreditation and the National Safety and Quality Health Services (NSQHS) Standards [slides]

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanied the talk on the results of the Health Libraries for National Standards (HeLiNS) research project.