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COSA 2025 - Innovate, Inspire, Impact - Melbourne

COSA 2025 will be held in Melbourne on October 13th and 14th at William Angliss TAFE, 555 La Trobe St, Melbourne. This year the conference will be in-person only, while pre-conference training will be available online the week prior to the conference itself. Further details will be posted on this page as soon as they are available. In the meantime, if you are interested in presenting a paper at this year's conference you can email info@cosa.asn.au.

Further details, including the link to registration, updates to the program, and accommodation options, can be found here.

Post-Conference Online Training  2025 – Three expert-led sessions, small groups, exceptional value – Limited to 12 seats per class. Book now.

Extend the value of the conference with our exclusive post-conference training week. Three live online classes, each limited to just 12 participants, offer targeted, practical learning at exceptionally low prices. Open to all—register now via the Eventbrite page.

• Symphony Cataloguing Administration  - Monday 20th October
• BLUEcloud Analytics Reports - Tuesday 21st October
• BLUEcloud Analytics Dossiers - Wednesday 22nd October

Post-Conference training, delivered at a discounted price of just $60 per class (+GST), is open to ALL APAC customers, not just conference attendees, making this an outstanding opportunity for high-quality, small-group training at minimal cost.

Earlybird benefit: Organisations that purchased an Earlybird COSA Conference ticket are entitled to one complimentary seat in a training of their choice; a unique code will be emailed directly, to the person who purchased the ticket for your organisation.

Bookings are made via the conference Eventbrite page here - due to limited capacity, early registration is strongly recommended.

COSA AGM 2024

The minutes and Treasurer's Report for the COSA 2024 Annual General Meeting are now available for download.

COSA Scholarship
If your organisation is unable to fund your trip to the COSA conference, you may be able to win an expenses-paid scholarship to attend. The successful applicant will deliver a presentation to the conference, after having conference fees, travel and accommodation expenses paid by COSA. Find out more here.

COSA 2024 - Rydges Southbank, Brisbane QLD

COSA 2024 was held at Rydges Southbank, Brisbane, on Oct 16-17.
Conference papers included setting up Single Sign On for Symphony, an introduction to the AIATIS Thesauri and AustLang for describing materials with First Nations content, implementing BC Circulation in a public library, and a Data Control panel.

COSA members can download conference papers from the COSA archives.

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Is your library a member of COSA?

Membership is open to any site that is a current customer of SirsiDynix, and who is located in Australia, New Zealand or the Asia Pacific region.

Membership benefits include:

Discounted conference registration fees and pre-conference software training sessions 

• Up to 2 staff from a financial member institution or consortium may take advantage of discounted fees. Additional staff can attend at the non-member rates, or purchase additional memberships

Voting rights at the annual general meeting, held at the conference

• One vote per financial membership

Ability to become a committee member, to shape the future direction of the group

Discounted conference registration fees for international SirsiDynix user group conferences, such as COSUGI in the USA and COSI EMEA (usually held in Europe)

Access to a members-only area on the website, with papers and presentations on SirsiDynix software

Access to COSUGI presentations from the USA

Free access to escrow arrangements for your institution negotiated on our behalf by the American user group COSUGI

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Queries?

See the membership tab or email  Yolande Binfield, Yarra Libraries and COSA Treasurer,  yolande.binfield@yarracity.vic.gov.au