Trove and the world: Cultural collections in a global environment [slides]
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Online information services
ALIA Library
Trove and the world: Cultural collections in a global environment
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract:
Introduction:
Seams and edges: Dreams of aggregation, access & discovery in a broken world [slides]
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.
Seams and edges: Dreams of aggregation, access & discovery in a broken world
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.
Journey maps and customer hacks: redesigning services at the State Library Victoria [slides]
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Journey maps and customer hacks: redesigning services at the State Library Victoria
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract:
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? [slides]
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.
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract:
The response of public libraries in Australia to the COVID 19 pandemic [slides]
Research Review Seminar Series: Australian public libraries respond to COVID-19, 16 November, 12pm via Zoom.
Understanding Australian public library responses to the COVID-19 crisis
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.
Pages
