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ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 20 August 2016 Truganina, Victoria: Beyond the walls - online learning

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for school library services and/or engaging students in attaining successful learning outcomes. Online learning is one of the benefits of the technological age. What role does the school library play in the promotion and delivery of online learning tools? How can the teacher librarian support online learning in their school? Which tools will best your school?

This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the keynote address which explores the concepts and issues that pertain to online learning and delivery.

ALIA Schools Professional Development Seminar, 16 March 2016 Camberwell, Victoria: 21st century resourcing - digital collection development

The seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others who are responsible for school library services. This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the session which explores how digital ​resources ​sit ​equally ​alongside ​with ​physical ​resources and how ​the ​school ​library ​caters ​for ​the ​growth ​and ​development ​of ​digital ​resources ​within ​the collection. 

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the paper which discusses how Shell Australia's Technical Librarians successfuly combine the roles of the traditional special librarian and the new data librarian. They are a vital part of Shell Australia's multidisciplinary Subsurface and Wells Technical Data Management team, working collaboratively with colleagues across data management, geoscience and information technology (IT) disciplines to ensure the increasing volume, velocity, and variety of the company's geoscientific technical data - very big data - is managed efficiently.

Shell Australia's Technical Librarians were key stakeholders in a recent project to review and improve the existing databases and processes used to manage Shell Australia's goephysical data. The cross-disciplinary engagement resulted in the implementation of tools and processes that provide improved metadata capture, clearer connections between projects and data, improved search functionality, better data management and stronger relationships with stakeholders. The professional skills of the technical librarian remain relevant and valuable in an era of big data, however cross-disciplinary collaboration with data stakeholders is essential to communicate this value and develop additional disciplinary knowledge and data management skills.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

[Peer reviewed] This conference paper discusses how Shell Australia's Technical Librarians successfuly combine the roles of the traditional special librarian and the new data librarian. They are a vital part of Shell Australia's multidisciplinary Subsurface and Wells Technical Data Management team, working collaboratively with colleagues across data management, geoscience and information technology (IT) disciplines to ensure the increasing volume, velocity, and variety of the company's geoscientific technical data - very big data - is managed efficiently.

Shell Australia's Technical Librarians were key stakeholders in a recent project to review and improve the existing databases and processes used to manage Shell Australia's goephysical data. The cross-disciplinary engagement resulted in the implementation of tools and processes that provide improved metadata capture, clearer connections between projects and data, improved search functionality, better data management and stronger relationships with stakeholders. The professional skills of the technical librarian remain relevant and valuable in an era of big data, however cross-disciplinary collaboration with data stakeholders is essential to communicate this value and develop additional disciplinary knowledge and data management skills.

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

[Peer reviewed] Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi (With your basket and my basket the people will flourish). This is a Māori whakatoki or proverb that is used in everyday life and refers to co-operation and the combination of resources to get ahead.

This conference paper will discuss the first International Network of Emerging Library Innovators (INELI) OCEANIA cohort which was established in 2014. INELI Oceania is based on the International Network of Library Innovators, an initiative of the Global Libraries project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. INELI-Oceania provides emerging library leaders within the Oceania region - Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific nations - with opportunities to connect with each other to explore new ideas, to experiment with new services, and to learn from one another. As a place of online engagement INELI Oceania has developed a network of innovators who are actively engaged in online learning and reflective practice in a trusted and supportive environment. The network, which includes online learning modules on topics such as innovation, risk, change management and advocacy, is supported by a group of mentors and a project manager.

This paper will introduce the INELI Oceania network and its aims. The authors share their experiences of how the learnings gained in the network have been applied through case studies focused on the Advocacy module of the course. Advocacy in this context is defined as the actions that influence decision making and involves articulating the value of libraries, identifying key messages and creating the right connections to create positive outcomes for the library/industry.

In looking at the case studies, The authors discuss challenges in leading development of library services in environments of significant change, for example restructures or amalgamations. They also look at the role of the library in influencing societal change through community consultation and collaboration, and will acknowledge the value of international and cross cultural perspectives in addressing current challenges and demands.

The paper will seek to spark interest and conversation about the skills and attributes required to collaborate and lead in the 21st century library. The speakers will emphasise the value of a learning environment that promotes trust and honesty, builds resilience and self-awareness, and the absolute necessity of networks and support.

This paper is submitted as feedback to the IHPA (Independent Hospital Pricing Authority) public consultation paper prepared by Paxton Partners ‘Teaching, training and research costing study’ issued in December 2014.

The Executive of HLA is greatly concerned at the omission in the public consultation paper of the role performed by health libraries, and by information technology in general, in the paper prepared by Paxton Partners on the creation of an appropriate classification (costing study) for teaching, training and research (TTR).

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.

Australian National Early Literacy Summit, 7-8 March 2016 Canberra

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) from the summit provides an overview of a national child and youth well being program 'The Nest'.

The aim of the National Early Literacy Summit is to spark debate about what a National Early Literacy Strategy for Australia might include and how it would help deliver the best results, building on existing work such as the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association’s "Declaration of Literacy in 21st Century Australia" and Victorian Libraries' "Reading and Literacy for All".

Government, educators, researchers, libraries and early years service providers will break new ground in collaborative engagement around this most vital national priority – future generations with the literacy skills to fight disadvantage, and advance Australia’s interests in the global knowledge economy.

Australian National Early Literacy Summit, 7-8 March 2016 Canberra

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) from the summit provides an overview of issues influencing early childhood literacy and learning.

The aim of the National Early Literacy Summit is to spark debate about what a National Early Literacy Strategy for Australia might include and how it would help deliver the best results, building on existing work such as the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association’s "Declaration of Literacy in 21st Century Australia" and Victorian Libraries' "Reading and Literacy for All".

Government, educators, researchers, libraries and early years service providers will break new ground in collaborative engagement around this most vital national priority – future generations with the literacy skills to fight disadvantage, and advance Australia’s interests in the global knowledge economy.

ALIA Special Libraries Summit, 2 September 2016 Adelaide: a satellite event to the ALIA National Conference

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) invited leaders from special libraries in government, health, law, research and other fields to come together to discuss the issues affecting the sector, with the aim of developing the basis for a collaborative national action plan. This report summaries the outcomes of the summit.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

[Peer reviewed] This conference paper discusses how the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) collected a wide range of material around the NSW State Election (28 March 2015); foremost amongst them a collection of social media, websites and blogs. The collection of social media content relating to elections raises new methodological and technical challenges. Firstly, one must decide upon a systematic process for defining query terms to be used with social media search engines; these will collect public discussions from all the electorates and all the election topics. Secondly, monitoring the effectiveness of these terms and the topical relevance of the collected data is a time-consuming task that can quickly overwhelm library staff.

The SLNSW and the CSIRO collaborated on these challenges, using the social media monitoring tool Vizie to select, archive and analyse public digital material documenting the candidates, parties, interest groups and election issues. Specifically, the SLNSW developed a new collection framework specifically to collect digital material for elections, identifying the query terms, digital presences and sites representing the candidates, parties, interest groups, and election issues. These included Twitter accounts and hashtags, Facebook pages, websites and blogs which were utilised by the Vizie tool to capture digital posts.

This paper details a new election-specific collection framework, including the process for identifying and collecting the material, as well as novel Vizie extensions implemented to provide ongoing feedback on the collection framework. This contribution has the potential to benefit other institutions wishing to capture meaningful collections of social media posts around specific public events, such as elections. The paper will thus also include lessons learnt and thoughts for future election digital collections.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the keynote address on the future of libraries.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of the strategy developed to improve the delivery of services and resources to university students in the digital environment.

Given planning time and support, public libraries can be a major asset to government departments promoting cybersafety initiatives and adopting a stronger digital presence.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference poster paper highlights the challenges, strategies and successful inititatives of a university library electronic publishing service.

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.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the paper which examines the role of Australia in library and librarianship research undertaken by Chinese academics.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference paper puts forward the case for a new publishing model for an open access (OA) library and information science (LIS) journal that also encompasses cultural heritage, informatics, and the digital humanities.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides ) supports the paper which explores  how recent changes to the higher education environment have prompted academic libraries to demonstrate evidence of their value and impact to stakeholders. To achieve this aim, visualising data is an effective way to deliver important messages about impact and value in a clear and persuasive way.

Library and Learning Services (LLS), Griffith University, plays a crucial role as a key centre for information, training, and services aimed at assisting client success and retention. Since Semester 1 2009, LLS has been collecting workshop and consultation data which details client engagement with LLS services. In addition, feedback forms from clients who had attended workshops and/or consultation services offered by LLS between March and September in 2014 were used to produce a range of visual representations to demonstrate the positive engagement of LLS with students.

There has been a positive response to LLS impact initiatives from high-level stakeholders, such as Heads of School and the Pro Vice Chancellor (Information Services), although visualised information has impacted mostly on the LLS and its team members. However, visualised information has more recently informed LLS operational planning and impact and reach advice for senior staff. Visual messages have influenced LLS team members’ practice, fuelling the redevelopment of some services and resources. Although there is little hard data to prove the actual extent of audience engagement with visual representations, the authors believe that academic library data has the potential to improve services and communication with stakeholders when it is presented in an easily understood format. While visualised information has engaged LLS in being aware, and working towards better services for clients, the next stage of the project is to find ways of measuring the degree of engagement with the actual visual products.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanies the paper which puts forward the case for a new publishing model for an open access (OA) library and information science (LIS) journal that also encompasses cultural heritage, informatics, and the digital humanities.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference paper discusses an approach to managing copyright risk in libraries.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) supports the paper which discusses two highly customised, and individualised, research support initiatives:

The Pimp my Profile initiative and the Researcher Profile Health Check Service. Both initiatives are very practical; Pimp my Profile takes researchers through a three step guide to creating a researcher profile (based on achieving Bronze, Silver and Gold levels); the Researcher Profile Health Check provides individualised feedback and practical suggestions on how researchers can maximise their online identity and visibility. In both cases researchers do something, and get something at the end. Both are also mechanisms through which emerging researchers were prioritised by the Faculty for targeted support by the CI Library Team. The CIF Research Leaders are further operationalising the Researcher Profile through the university’s mandatory Performance Planning and Review (PPr) process.

Both initiatives were developed and implemented in October 2015. Evidence of impact will be gathered via a focus group and a survey in the third quarter of 2016. This evaluation will focus on gathering researchers’ perceptions of the initiatives, as well as attempting to identify positive change over the course of the year, in the visibility of and activity around those researchers who developed their online researcher identity according to the Create Your Researcher Profile guide. 

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead.

This conference paper explains how recent literature on researcher profiles often focuses on describing the merits of various tools or overviewing library research support services in general.  Rarely do these discussions feature researchers’ voices nor do they include an evaluation of the effectiveness - for a researcher - of creating and maintaining a multi-channel social media researcher profile. This paper aims to do both these things, through a discussion of two highly customised, and individualised, research support initiatives:

The Pimp my Profile initiative was developed by the Creative Industries (CI) Faculty Liaison Team (QUT Library) in tight collaboration with the Research Leaders in the Creative Industries Faculty (CIF). The initiative was seen as relevant by CIF researchers and gained momentum precisely because it was commissioned and moulded by these key Faculty stakeholders. It represented one of the Library’s contributions to the Faculty’s strategic and ongoing realignment of its research dissemination culture. In this way, the CI Library Team customised and aligned Library research support activities closely to the CIF’s strategic vision for developing the visibility of its researchers.

The Pimp my Profile initiative led to the Researcher Profile Health Check Service. Both initiatives are very practical; Pimp my Profile takes researchers through a three step guide to creating a researcher profile (based on achieving Bronze, Silver and Gold levels); the Researcher Profile Health Check provides individualised feedback and practical suggestions on how researchers can maximise their online identity and visibility. In both cases researchers do something, and get something at the end. Both are also mechanisms through which emerging researchers were prioritised by the Faculty for targeted support by the CI Library Team. The CIF Research Leaders are further operationalising the Researcher Profile through the university’s mandatory Performance Planning and Review (PPr) process.

Both initiatives were developed and implemented in October 2015. Evidence of impact will be gathered via a focus group and a survey in the third quarter of 2016. This evaluation will focus on gathering researchers’ perceptions of the initiatives, as well as attempting to identify positive change over the course of the year, in the visibility of and activity around those researchers who developed their online researcher identity according to the Create Your Researcher Profile guide. 

ALIA 2016 National Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016, Adelaide: Engage, Create, Lead

[Peer reviewed] This paper 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. 

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and Australian School Library Association (ASLA) policy to fulfil a school's teaching and learning goals through a well funded and appropriately resources school library.

Superseded by: ALIA ACSL Statement on School Library Funding and Resource Provision

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) supports the paper which charts the development of the scaffolded liaison librarian training program based on an annual Training Needs Analysis (TNA); evaluation and the new directions of the program.

Professional development is essential for academic librarians to smartly navigate through options, opportunities and challenges in their professional career (Bell, 2015). Commitment from senior university library administrators’ to champion staff development programs ensures that librarians are equipped to fully participate in a rapidly evolving information environment. Such a commitment signals the important leadership role that librarians can play in supporting academics with their research activities and in guiding students to become sophisticated users of information.

Deakin University Library is regarded by academics and senior university administrators as an essential service to deliver on the promise of “accessible, media-rich, interactive and active educational experiences designed for excellent learning outcomes and optimum employability” (Deakin University, 2012). In order to maintain such a leadership position, the Library Executive endorsed a professional development program for liaison librarians to build their capacity to work effectively and confidently with academics.

National 2016 Conference, 29 August-2 September 2016 Adelaide: Engage Create Lead

This conference paper charts the development of the scaffolded liaison librarian training program based on an annual Training Needs Analysis (TNA); evaluation and the new directions of the program.

Professional development is essential for academic librarians to smartly navigate through options, opportunities and challenges in their professional career (Bell, 2015). Commitment from senior university library administrators’ to champion staff development programs ensures that librarians are equipped to fully participate in a rapidly evolving information environment. Such a commitment signals the important leadership role that librarians can play in supporting academics with their research activities and in guiding students to become sophisticated users of information.

Deakin University Library is regarded by academics and senior university administrators as an essential service to deliver on the promise of “accessible, media-rich, interactive and active educational experiences designed for excellent learning outcomes and optimum employability” (Deakin University, 2012). In order to maintain such a leadership position, the Library Executive endorsed a professional development program for liaison librarians to build their capacity to work effectively and confidently with academics.

Australian National Early Literacy Summit, 7-8 March 2016 Canberra

The aim of the National Early Literacy Summit is to spark debate about what a National Early Literacy Strategy for Australia might include and how it would help deliver the best results, building on existing work such as the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association’s "Declaration of Literacy in 21st Century Australia" and Victorian Libraries' "Reading and Literacy for All".

Government, educators, researchers, libraries and early years service providers will break new ground in collaborative engagement around this most vital national priority – future generations with the literacy skills to fight disadvantage, and advance Australia’s interests in the global knowledge economy.