Trove and the world: Cultural collections in a global environment [slides]
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract:
Introduction:
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) examines the rhetoric of ‘seamlessness’ in the world of discovery services, focusing in particular on the possibilities and problems facing Trove at the National Library of Australia.
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract
Visions of technological utopia often portray an increasingly ‘seamless’ world, where technology integrates experience across space and time. Edges are blurred as we move easily between devices and contexts, between the digital and the physical.
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract:
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) discusses the impact for library investment is web-scale discovery services like Primo, Summon, EDS, and WorldCat Discovery Services. The presentation examines the original rationale for the services, expectation and measure of impact and early results. The presentation also considers the parallel investments being made by content providers in facilitating the discovery of their content.
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract:
Research Review Seminar Series: Australian public libraries respond to COVID-19, 16 November, 12pm via Zoom.
On 24th March 2020 the Prime Minister of Australia declared the immediate closure of libraries across the country as part of the national attempt to slow the rate of COVID-19 infections. This meant over 1,600 public library service points across the country in urban, regional and remote locations, were no longer able to offer services on their premises.