Congratulations to Anne Beaumont from the State Library of Victoria for receiving VALA's most prestigious award, the Robert D. Williamson Award for 2010.
Anne has served terms as a member of Australia’s two principal federal government-appointed standing advisory committees on intellectual property: she was a member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) which advises IP Australia from 1996 to 1999 and, as a member of the Copyright Law Review Committee’s Expert Advisory Group (1995 to 1998), participated in the CLRC’s major review (“the simplification reference”) of the Copyright Act.
Free entry.
Venue: TBC
Drinks and refreshments from 5:30 pm with presentation commencing at 6:00 pm.
Delegates to the VALA2010 Conference not only set records for the number of tweets (#VALA2010 was the in the top 5 Australian hash tags for the week of the conference) they also took and shared lots of photos. Here is a very subjective sample of some of the photo that stood out for us. It would appear that VALA2010 was about attending lots of sessions and then eating cake and drinking wine. How very librarian.
Click the following Readmore link to see which photos we liked.
According to Twirus, during the week of the VALA2010 Conference, #VALA2010 was in the top 5 most popular tweet hash tags in Australia!
On 11 February, #VALA2010 was the most popular tweet hash tag in the country!
To the best of our knowledge this is the first time a library related hash tag has been in the top 5 in this country let alone the most popular hash tag! Wow, and well done!