RMIT Publishing update from VALA2012

RMIT Publishing would like to thank all who visited our stand at the VALA conference last week. As always, meeting with librarians from across the country - and beyond! - was a fantastic opportunity to hear what is happening in libraries, and how we can continue to deliver easy-to-discover, relevant content to end users.

 
RMIT Publishing at stand 47 & 48.

Product launch: Informit Literature & Culture Collection

VALA provided the perfect platform to celebrate the official launch of the Informit Literature & Culture Collection. Thank you to those to showed their support by attending our panel discussion 'Literature in Libraries: a thing of the past?' on the VALA Red Carpet, with guest speakers Phillip Edmonds, Managing Editor of Wet Ink, and Zora Sanders, Deputy Editor of Meanjin. This was followed by drinks and nibbles at the RMIT Publishing stand. A video of the discussion will be uploaded in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

 
Publishing Manager Kevin Ormsby chairs the discussion, 'Australian Literature in Libraries: a thing of the past?' with guest speakers Phillip Edmonds and Zora Sanders.

A crowd gathers to celebrate the launch of the Informit Literature & Culture Collection. 

Prize Draw winner announced

A big congratulations to Rebecca Whitehead, Liaison Librarian for Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University, who is the lucky winner of our prize draw for a one day full pass to VALA2014. Thank you to all who entered.  

RMIT Publishing receives a Robert D. Williamson Award

Finally, RMIT Publishing was delighted to receive a Robert D. Williamson Award. This award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the development of information technology within Australian libraries. It also recognises the pioneering work done by Robert D. Williamson. This was a welcome affirmation of the great work RMIT Publishing has done since Informit visionary Don Schauder won the award in 1995, and continues to do today. RMIT Publishing Director Heather Crosbie proudly accepted the award on our behalf. 

Enid Williamson presents RMIT Publishing Director, Heather Crosbie with the Robert D. Williamson award.

A full report will be available in the next issue of the Informit Bulletin, coming soon!