National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) highlights recent changes to copyright legislation and future prospects for libraries regarding fair use.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) assesses and compares the usability of public library web sites in Australia, Canada and the United States.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the paper discussing the City of Joondalup Local History Library's approach to digitising, preserving and publishing a local history collection.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference paper discusses the City of Joondalup Local History Library's approach to digitising, preserving and publishing a local history collection.
ALIA 2016 National Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage, Create, Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the paper which engages with the issue, raised by Lonsdale in 2003, of a lack of data regarding national staffing trends in Australian school libraries. The authors review the literature available, including general census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, library sector-specific information, and data from the education sector (including school libraries). Particular focus is given to the Staff in Australian Schools survey, as well as its limitations.
The authors discuss three main findings from their research: 1) declining numbers of teachers in primary school libraries, 2) a growing inequity between numbers of staff in low-SES and high-SES school libraries, and 3) the prevalence of teachers with little or no tertiary qualifications in library studies working in school libraries. The authors also examine residual gaps in the data and provide the following recommendations: work to collect and share data across relevant sectors; partner with the library industry to commission and fund broader kinds of research; and connect research to national and local priorities such as those related to school students' performance.
ALIA 2016 National Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016, Adelaide: Engage, Create, Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) outlines the impact of qualified teacher librarians in relation to student reading, digital literacy, critical thinking and research.
ALIA 2016 National Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides a summary of the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) approach to developing a working partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Shire Councils to establish and sustain Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKCs).
ALIA National 2016 Conference 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the paper which explores the place of Research Data Management (RDM) support services as an extension of the academic librarian's role. The presenters anticipate that RDM support will become increasingly important in an ever-more data-driven research environment, and share the experiences of three South Australian university libraries in providing RDM, including the skillsets developed and lessons learned.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference poster paper describes the four rounds of review - text to image, navigation, affirmation and standardisation - for evaluation of feedback to improve elearning module design.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference poster paper details work from a graduation design studio for M.Architecture students at the University of Adelaide in 2015, and its engagement with the university's central library, the Barr Smith Library, concurrently undertaking its own major review. The central task of the studio was to grapple with the question of "the library of the future". It sought ways of reinventing the library, an institution and a social and architectural typology that is seriously threatened by technological and social changes, chief among them being digitalisation and privatisation. In response to this situation, the studio asked its participants: what new hybrid configurations, scenarios, programs, and typologies are plausible to sustaining the promise of the library.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference paper discusses the challenge of promoting online collections in public libraries.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the paper which discusses the challenge of promoting online collections in public libraries.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of how libraries can approach research data management.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference workshop presentation (PowerPoint slides) describes how an evaluation of a training program can be conducted.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the paper which details the 'scavenger hunt' designed by the Research Services Coordinator at Curtin University to engage library staff in developing research data management skills. The paper explores the background and methods of the scavenger hunt as well as presenting the lessons learned from an amibitious project that did not proceed quite according to plan. The experience it offers is valuable for librarians looking to undertake work in the emerging area of research data management.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference paper details the City of Salisbury Library Service family literacy program called ABC 30&3, which promotes the vital role parents play in the development of their child’s early literacy skills. The program shows parents and caregivers how to share books, language and music effectively and regularly with their children.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the paper which details the City of Salisbury Library Service family literacy program called ABC 30&3, which promotes the vital role parents play in the development of their child’s early literacy skills. The program shows parents and caregivers how to share books, language and music effectively and regularly with their children.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of developing a disaster plan which covers both physical and digital library collection material.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference paper discusses 'Memory', a State Library Victoria (SLV) and Public Libraries Victoria Network initiative, which aims to build the capacity of Victorian public libraries to collect, manage and share local history collections in the digital environment. The goal is to grow the ability of public libraries to meet demand from local history groups, family history communities and the general public for online access to local history collections and content. As an important first step in meeting this aim, 'Memory' focussed on increasing awareness about digital preservation and equipping Victorian libraries with the skills needed to identify, select, store, protect, manage and provide digital content.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the paper which discusses 'Memory', a State Library Victoria (SLV) and Public Libraries Victoria Network initiative, which aims to build the capacity of Victorian public libraries to collect, manage and share local history collections in the digital environment. The goal is to grow the ability of public libraries to meet demand from local history groups, family history communities and the general public for online access to local history collections and content. As an important first step in meeting this aim, 'Memory' focussed on increasing awareness about digital preservation and equipping Victorian libraries with the skills needed to identify, select, store, protect, manage and provide digital content.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of a joint venture between the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) to make research outputs discoverable via a shared taxonomy.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference paper discusses the literacy programs and services developed by the City of Salisbury following the displacement of thousands of workers due to the withdrawal of the automative manufacturing industry in Adelaide.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the paper which discusses the literacy programs and services developed by the City of Salisbury following the displacement of thousands of workers due to the withdrawal of the automative manufacturing industry in Adelaide.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference poster paper highlights a joint venture by the State Library of Queensland and HistoryPin to collaborate with community members to share untold stories of the First World War.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) highlights the challenges of leading organisations undergoing transition.
ALIA National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanied the keynote address on building and maintaining community support at the State Library of Victoria.
National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
This conference poster paper illustrates the steps involved in launching a repository of digitised special collecton items.
Australian Library Design Awards and Conference, 19 March 2019 Brisbane
The Australian Library Design Awards have been created to showcase the best in contemporary library interiors and exteriors in Australia, and to celebrate the investment in libraries made by our nation's institutions, corporations, local, state and territory governments. There are three categories – public libraries, academic libraries, and school libraries. There is also an ALIA Members’ Choice award, voted for by ALIA Members. Entries can be for new buildings, refurbishments or major renovations. Each entry is judged against the same set of criteria and there is the option for the judging panel to make special awards where there are several outstanding entries in one category. Any library in Australia, recently built, renovated or refurbished can be entered for the awards. This includes fixed locations but not pop up, temporary or mobile libraries.
The Australian Library Design Awards have been developed in the context of other competitions internationally, including the American Institute of Architects/American Library Association Library Building Awards and the Danish Agency for Culture Model Programme for Public Libraries Public Library of the Year Award. The entries, shortlisted and winning designs provide case studies in excellent library design for the 21st Century.
Library Lovers' Day 2019: library love stories
Library Lovers’ Day is an opportunity for libraries and library users to celebrate all the ways that love can be found in the library. Organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), this annual event involves hundreds of libraries and thousands of library users.
In 2019, ALIA ran a 200–word story writing competition, story submissions were based off the prompt ‘there was love to be found in the library’.
Library Lovers' Day 2019: library love stories
Library Lovers’ Day is an opportunity for libraries and library users to celebrate all the ways that love can be found in the library. Organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), this annual event involves hundreds of libraries and thousands of library users.
In 2019, ALIA ran a 200–word story writing competition, story submissions were based off the prompt ‘there was love to be found in the library’.