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National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead
 
This conference paper examines the role of Australia in library and librarianship research undertaken by Chinese academics.

The purpose of this report is to assist library and information professionals to present the business case for health libraries within their organisation. By doing so, we hope health libraries will be able to maintain their excellent service to medical practitioners; a service which impacts directly on positive health outcomes for patients.

Healthcare professionals were asked how they thought their library and information services had helped them over the last year, this infographic represents the results of this survey.

ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
 
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Library staff are engaging with clients, delivering services in social media channels and representing your library brand online. How effectively is your team managing legal and reputation risks, community engagement, strategy, coordination and resourcing risks? This presentation is a guided tour through recognising and managing the online engagement risks they will encounter along the way. Tools featured include: Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons and the lessons learned at State Library of NSW.
 
Together we will explore the risks and control options available and the strategies in place across the four different focus areas that the State Library uses social media to deliver on organisational objectives:
 
1. Developing markets (audiences) and promoting Library events, exhibitions, products, collections and services
2. Promoting discovery of library assets (including collections, services, events, exhibitions, online services, physical spaces and staff expertise)
3. Engaging with clients and the community in their preferred channels and online communities (conversation and service delivery)
4. Collecting social media content for the collection (including social meta data and community created content)
 
The responsibility for creating social media content and engaging with communities and clients through these channels involves a range of different library roles and stakeholders. Navigating digital engagement as an avenue of service delivery is a key skill for library professionals.

INCITE: The magazine for library and information professionals - July/August 2021 Volume 42 Issue 4 (supplement)
 
Contents: Introduction -- LIS Workforce Diversity Survey results -- Painting a picture about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island employment in Australian libraries -- Acknowledging, valuing and making space for diversity in LIS education at the University of South Australia -- Jumping hurdles: hurdle wording and hiring for diversity and inclusion -- Connecting personally to Culturally Safe Libraries -- Not your average public library -- Undertaking inclusive employment -- Trainee Library Officers and Workplace Diversity -- Better reflecting the community we serve.

Health Libraries Australia Professional Development Day, 18 & 19 July 2019 Melbourne: All about data - what do health librarians need to know in the data driven world of ehealth?
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanied the workshop 'Work smarter, not harder: how to utilise data to build an efficient library service'.

The 'Australian Library and Information Association Galleries Libraries Archives Museums and Records Workforce Diversity Trend Report 2019' details the current status of diversity across the galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records (GLAMR) workforce using the 2006, 2011, and 2016 census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The age, gender, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation, people living with disability, and cultural diversity of Librarians; Gallery, Library and Museum Technicians; Library Assistants; and Archivists, Curators and Records Managers was compared with the levels of diversity in the total labour force. 
 
Five recommendations have been identified for the GLAMR sector to address imbalances highlighted in the report:
 

1. Encourage people to consider library and information as both a first and second career.
2. Find ways to significantly increase the number of male library and information workers.
3. Aim to double the number of Indigenous workers.
4. Continue to open up career opportunities for people living with disability.
5. Seek to recruit people born in Asia and/or from LOTE households with Asian first languages.

The aim of the WA Library Technicians Group (WALT) symposium grant is to enable students and recent graduates of a library technician qualification course to experience the value of a National Library and Information Technicians' Symposium. The Symposium is a prime source of professional development and networking opportunities for library technicians within Australia and overseas.

The aim of the WA Library Technicians Group (WALT) symposium grant is to enable students and recent graduates of a library technician qualification course to experience the value of a National Library and Information Technicians' Symposium. The Symposium is a prime source of professional development and networking opportunities for library technicians within Australia and overseas.

The aim of the WA Library Technicians Group (WALT) symposium grant is to enable students and recent graduates of a library technician qualification course to experience the value of a National Library and Information Technicians' Symposium. The Symposium is a prime source of professional development and networking opportunities for library technicians within Australia and overseas.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.
 
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) explores how the Community Learning Team at the State Library of South Australia examined how cultural organisations can remain relevant to learners in the 21st century. The team is rising to this challenge, reimagining our role, welcoming new technologies and co-creating dynamic learning opportunities with students that foster creativity, research and collaboration.
 
This session tells the story of how we led a project with students from grades 6 to 10 over a period of two months to authentically co-create a learning program to accompany the exhibition, A Theatre inside the Book, Paper Engineering from the Collections of the State Library of South Australia. All learning experiences are closely designed in line with the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) and Teaching for Effective Learning Framework.  This program was focused on the learning areas of Humanities and Social Sciences: History, The Arts: Visual Arts, Design and Technologies and the General Capabilities of literacy, numeracy, critical and creative thinking.
 
Capturing student voice over time and in a variety of ways has been critical in challenging our thinking, ensuring learning experiences reflect student voice and offer opportunity deeper engagement with the collections and stories of the State Library. In this session we will share a short documentary that offers insights into what students value, think and feel about the process of co-creation.  It highlights how this process has fostered for students, a sense of ownership and personal connection with the State Library and shifted the focus of adults from being the sage on the stage to the guide on the side.
 
So, who is this place for anyway?  It is a place for all.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger
This conference presentation looks at how funding cuts to TAFE colleges have impacted on all areas of teaching and learning. College libraries have not escaped the axe, but nevertheless still provide important spaces and resources for teachers and students.
Like any library, TAFE college libraries need to continually assess the community they serve to remain relevant. They need to be innovative and resourceful in providing services and materials for their community.  This is where liaison and collaboration between teachers and library staff is of utmost importance, and these rolls are changing as well.
This presentation highlights some of the positives of working collaboratively together.

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) guidelines on preparing an article for INCITE magazine.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger
This conference presentation discusses a training needs analysis conducted by the State Library of Queensland (State Library)  for Public Libraries of Queensland in 2013-2014.  This presentation explores the findings of the training needs analysis and the development of the Vision 2017 Learning Strategy for public libraries’ staff in Queensland.  The Next Horizon Vision 2017 for Queensland public libraries is a collaborative vision with State Library, Queensland Public Library Association (QPLA) and Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ).
Four key themes are outlined in Vision 2017: Creative Community spaces, Connectors – physical and virtual, Technology trendsetters, incubators of ideas, learning and innovation.
For Queensland public libraries to deliver on this vision we explored the skills sets, management and leadership competencies required with key stakeholders across local government, library industry education sector, public library staff, ALIA, and QPLA. Key barriers to library staff becoming confident learners were found to be a culture of permission required to learn, a risk averse culture within local government, and that library staff in Queensland are disengaged from the debate about the profession.