It was suggested to me that I should introduce myself as I am now taking over the role of aliaACTive convenor from Sherrey Quinn. Most of you already know of me from my role of the AGLIN Information Sharing Officer for the past 3 years. This function has now in the capable hands of Nicola Cross.
I currently work in the Metadata team at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I have been involved with ALIA as an active member for the past 15 years. I believe you get out of an organisation what you put into it and decided to practice what I preach in this role. I have a very hard act to follow after Sherrey Quinn who kept aliaACTive going over a great number of years. I have asked Sherrey to stay on the ALIAActive committee to contribute her experience and commonsense approach and appreciate the efforts of all other committee members such as Dianne Walton-Sonda, Gaik Khong.
We have a full programme of Information Sharing Forums (ISFs) for you in the next six months and really value your suggestions for others. However I will leave it for Nicola to expand on this. I look forward to seeing more of you at our ISFs and other joint ventures. My philosophy for the aliaACTive convenor role is the African proverb, "if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with people.
Karna O'Dea
aliaACTive Convenor
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