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National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.
 

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.
 

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.
 

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.
 

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
 

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.
 

The New Generation Advisory Committee (NGAC) is a committee of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).  The key objectives of NGAC are to increase new graduate participation in the Association and contribute to the development and delivery of services for new library and information services professionals and student members of ALIA.
 

Relevance 2020 was a joint initiative of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and Charles Sturt University (CSU) to consider the need for further development of library and information science (LIS) research infrastructure in Australia to address gaps in LIS knowledge.
 
This report provides the results of six LIS research events in Australian capital cities in late 2016 that had the main purpose of connecting academics, researchers and practitioners in order to help align future research projects and activities in the Australian LIS profession.

This report concludes that Library and information science is an occupation with a relatively small, highly qualified workforce (representing approximately 0.2% of the Australian labour force) and an equally small education footprint (approximately 0.2% of VET students and 0.1% of higher education students).
 

We welcome this opportunity to respond to the Productivity Commission Data Availability and Use Issues Paper. Library and information professionals work with data every day: we capture data; we help store data and make it accessible; we help make data discoverable; we help others find the data they need; we contribute to data policy discussions.