Australian secondment programs and policies

ACLIS/ALIA Victorian Working Party on Staff Exchanges, Staff exchange kit, ACLIS/ALIA, Melbourne, 1994.

Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities, Policy No 3 – Staff Exchanges: www.caara.org.au/Policy/policy3.htm.

Inter-Organisational Experience Program: www.quloc.org.au/working_parties/staffing_issues/reports/Inter_Org_Exp_Program.doc.

Monash University, Staff exchanges with other tertiary institutions: adm.monash.edu/workplace-policy/performance-development/staff-development/exchanges.html.

Office of Public Service Merit and Equity, Queensland Government, Arranging Secondments: www.psier.qld.gov.au/direct/docs/2003/no5-03.pdf.

Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation: www.quloc.org.au.

Southern Cross University, Staff exchanges and secondments: www.scu.edu.au/admin/hr/procedures/index.php/78.

International exchanges

LIBEX international library and information job exchange for staff who are interested in arranging a job exchange between a UK based post and a non-UK based post: libex.camp7.org/.

Experiences

McCallan Sarah, Weymouth, Ryan, ‘The experiences of two Queensland librarians’, QULOC News, Issue 3, 2004 pp. 2–3: www.quloc.org.au/quloc_news/quloc_news3.pdf.

Robson, Margaret, ‘Flexibility and Adaptability: An Overseas Public Library Staff Exchange’, Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services; Volume 4, Issue 2; June 1991, pp. 82–84.

Tindale, Jonathan, An account of a swap from London to New Zealand, update May 2004, www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2004/may/update0405d.htm.

Uthmann, Sharon E., Multi-skill me: secondment opportunities and issues at QUT Library, proceedings neXt 2005: ALIA National Library and Information Technicians Conference, Sydney, Australia: eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00002086/.

General

CIPD – UK (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), Secondment Fact Sheet, www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/lrnanddev/secondment/secondment.htm?IsSrchRes=1. Describes the process and types of secondments, outlining its benefits and commenting on the role HR can play.

Cousins, Carolyn, ‘Short term placements: an exercise in organisational culture exchange’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 64, no.4, Dec 2005, pp. 81–89.