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ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

In 2013 the ANZ 23 Mobile Things programme took over the Southern Hemisphere as the professional development programme of choice. Over 6 months, 770 people learnt how to use their mobile device to enhance their life, their libraries and their patrons’ ability to connect.

This conference presentation goes through the process of how one tweet of an idea turned into a MOOC, what the successes were, what the challenges were, what worked and what didn’t.

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.

The HCL Anderson Award is awarded in recognition of outstanding service to the library and information profession in Australia, to ALIA, to the theory of library and information science, and/or to the practice of library and information services.

This document provides general information and an application for nomination of an individual to receive the award.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

The aim of this conference presentation is to examine the differences in information literacy (IL) practices for VET students from TAFE libraries across Vocational only and Vocational and Higher Education delivering, TAFE institutes.

It will examine the content, delivery methods and barriers of IL practices across these two types of TAFE institution with a view to identify the likely differences facing IL programs in different types of TAFE library, and to provide suggestions on how best to tailor the IL practices to suit the particular student and teacher cohort.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

This conference paper reveals how, through working with the mechanisms and tools outlined, in addition to learning from achievements and failures in the examples provided, can contribute to: capacity building, knowledge transfer and succession planning.

This paper also highlights the importance of negotiations around assigning / sharing / taking credit, adapting to change throughout a project and working with different levels of availability, capacity and commitment of other group members. These skills will really reflect Public Libraries Supporting Communities, as collaborations become more effective.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

This conference paper provides an overview of The Edge as a maker space within the State Library of Queensland, and how maker spaces can support innovation in tough times.

The Edge, established at The State Library of Queensland in 2010, focuses on creation rather than collection, participation instead of preservation and collaboration over curation.

The Twila Ann Janssen Herr Award is a biennial award of up to $5000 that aims to provide an early career LIS practitioner with the opportunity to research or undertake a project in the area of library and information services for people with a disability.

The document outlines frequently asked questions regarding the terms of the Twila Ann Janssen Herr Award.

It is a requirement for all universities in Australia to have a university library service, and institutions take pride in their facilities, often seeing them as a symbol of the university’s investment in 21st century learning.

University libraries serve students and faculty on campus, and provide access to resources for the rapidly increasing number who study remotely.

ALIA responded to the Inquiry into the role of Technical and Further Education system and its operation, with the aim of: (1) encouraging acknowledgement of the important role of Australian TAFE libraries in supporting VET students, and (2) explaining the importance of a VET entry point for library and information professionals.

11th Health Libraries Inc. Conference combined with Health Libraries Australia (ALIA) PD Day, held 19 September 2014 at State Library of Victoria, Swanston St, Melbourne. Featuring presentations:

• Part of the Team: A collaborative effort to conduct an Audit of Disability Research in Australia.
• Vendor panel presentations – Vendor insights into collaborations in the information industry.
• Integrating a librarian into hospital-based research office and tertiary academic facility (education).
• Supporting a Bachelor of Nursing Program in a Sydney Teaching Hospital: an enduring library partnership.
• Collaboration: is it a mindset, a skill or just the latest fad? And why should librarians be embracing it?
• Collaborating for patient information: A Macquarie University Library initiative.
• Health Talks @ Your Library: a health literacy initiative.
• A Shared Language? – the who, what, and why of health library use.
• Collaborating across health service boundaries.

National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

ALIA National Conference provides the platform as a meeting point for all Library and Information professionals, from all sectors and all areas of Australia and the international community. 

There were ten themes that emerged, specific to libraries in Australia’s 39 universities. 1. Switched to digital. 2. Libraries, MOOCs and online learning. 3. Operating in the global market. 4. The best online experience. 5. Maintaining visibility in an online environment. 6. Subject matter experts. 7. Making space. 8. Patron driven acquisition. 9. Supporting research. 10. Libraries as publishers.

Australian Library and Information Association is responding to the Early Childhood Learning element of the Productivity Commission Issues Paper, with the aim of: securing explicit acknowledgement of the role of Australian public libraries in early childhood development in the final report to Government (31 October 2014), and encouraging discussion to identify further opportunities for the national network of 1500 public libraries to be used by federal, state and local government to support early childhood learning provision.

The Australian Library and Information Association's submission in response to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Higher Education Standards Panel call for comment.

This document assists in the promotion of the role of the school library and the teacher librarian to parents.

It supports the short promotional film developed by ALIA Schools, 'Promoting your School Library', which gives an overview of the role that school libraries and teacher librarians can play by contributing to student success in learning in both primary and secondary school settings.

Five key stakeholders have been targeted as the audience for this film:

• Parents
• Principal/Leadership Team
• School Staff
• Library Teams
• Network Groups

In 2014, ALIA, in conjunction with the Australian Law Library Association, Health Libraries Inc (HLInc) and Health Libraries Australia (ALIA HLA, a national group of the Australian Library and Information Association), released a study which suggests law firms, government departments, associations and other organisations involved with special libraries gain over $5 in return for every $1 they invest in special libraries.

The Metcalfe Award recognises high achievement by a current financial Associate or Library Technician member in their first five years of practice in libraries and information services. Achievement would be commensurate with experience and should show a contribution beyond the normal requirements of the nominee’s employment. This may include but not be limited to initiative, a commitment to innovation in practice, and leadership.

This document is an application form for peer nomination to receive the Metcalfe Award.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

This conference presentation discusses how the Memorial’s major digitisation, data and web development project ANZAC Connections, launched in December 2013, brings historic documents from the Memorial’s archive to all Australians and has delivered an appropriate platform to integrate and make available a substantial collection of rich data that exists from a variety of sources.

The Redmond Barry Award is awarded in recognition of outstanding service to one or more of the following:

• promotion of a library and information service or libraries and information services
• to the theory or practice of library and information science, or an associated field.

This document is an application form for peer nomination to receive the Redmond Barry Award.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

This conference paper provides an insight into multiple projects running within Deakin University Library to consolidate the data across major Library services, in a cost effective and sustainable way. The overarching strategy is to develop a comprehensive dataset supporting business decisions, and in so doing allow the Library to optimise operations and services for the benefit of our clients.

To effectively communicate these benefits, the Library recognises the need to tell qualitative stories using quantitative data.

An environmental scan of Australian Library and Information Studies (LIS) research was undertaken focusing on the period 2005–2013.

This was in response to a brief from ALIA that sought such an analysis to inform its decisions in relation to content of a future research agenda, support, advocacy, and future funding.

The investigation was expected to include research priorities of other library and information organisations, topics of research undertaken in Australia, types of research, persons/organisations undertaking research, and how research activities are funded, communicated and applied.

ALIA National 2014 Conference, 15-19 September 2014 Melbourne : together we are stronger

This conference presentation explains how the Dual Sector Partnership (DSP) Project was set up to deliver HE programs to regional students through their own local TAFE Institutes. The model of blended delivery allowed the students to study online but keep a local connection with lecturers and support staff based at their home institutes. Many students articulated into the degree programs from TAFE diplomas.

For the smaller regional TAFEs having to provide Information Literacy to HE students is a new thing, but not only are they HE, this cohort is mature age, not based on campus and come into the program with significant gaps in their academic literacies and technological skills. As a result each TAFE Institute library has responded locally in customising their delivery to suit the DSP cohort.

Australian Library and Information Association's purpose in submitting this paper is to join colleagues from other professional associations in opposing the Australian Government’s proposal to cap self education expenses at $2,000, as planned in the 2013-14 Budget.

The project was initiated by the National Year of Reading 2012 founding partners, with the Australian Library and Information Association as the auspice body. The project concept was prompted by recognition that there were many challenges being faced by providers of early literacy programs in remote Indigenous communities. With vast distances involved, the cost and difficulty of travelling to remote communities, the small size of the population in each location, the different language groups, the shortage of experienced workers, the time to build up trust and intense competition for funds mean that work in remote communities creates many barriers to sharing and partnering.

The goal of the project was to facilitate input from service providers of early literacy programs in remote Indigenous communities with a view to understanding what early literacy programs (outside of the formal education framework) are being delivered in remote Indigenous communities and to develop initial insight into the hallmarks of a good practice framework that can guide future government investment and non-government organisation (NGO) focus. It is intended that the outputs from this project will also encourage knowledge transfer, capacity building and collaboration across the early literacy sector.

The Australian Library and Information Association strongly applauds the move by the Government to provide access to its many data sets, while understanding and respecting data security and privacy issues

The benefits were assessed of providing a service directly to health library users, including time saved and value of ‘out-of-pocket’ expenses such as journal subscriptions.

A survey of libraries was supported by a number of in-depth case studies.

This brief submission raised the issue of libraries' limited access to ebooks for elending purposes because of publishers' restrictions on sales of ebook titles to libraries. It raised concerns about some publishers refusing to allow libraries to acquire ebooks for lending concurrent with their general release, at a fair and affordable price, and under licences that acknowledge copyright law exceptions for libraries.

ALIA HLA professional development day, 'The Value Proposition' held in 2013. Featuring presentations addressing:

• Research into our services and skills.
• Search skills of health librarians – how do we measure up?
• One tribe- many tribes? Mapping the boundaries and our population. Workforce, place, role, the HLA census.
• Marketing health librarianship as a profession. Adding value to health librarians' professional role: HLA research into education and workforce needs, and the launch of the PD health specialisation.
• ePortfolios to support PD.
• 2012 HLA/HCN Award winner from CareSearch (Palliative Care Knowledge Network) – search filter development and the implications for practice.
• eResearch@Flinders: reusing librarians’ skills for a new area of service delivery.
• Single click results- aiding access to clinical information.

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

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) paper summarising the current ebook and elending environment and outlining the issues facing libraries throughout Australia.