VALA-CAVAL 30-year Anniversary Series 2008

Celebrating 30 Years of Looking Forward

To celebrate their respective 30-year anniversaries, CAVAL and VALA are delighted to join forces and present two internationally respected and insightful speakers. Be informed and challenged as these speakers present their views and experience on some of the key issues facing our profession today.

Lizanne Payne:
The Future of Library Collections: Access and Stewardship in a Networked World

Over the past 25 years, the library collections landscape has been totally reshaped by digital information and global networks. As this seismic shift continues, libraries are being challenged to balance the costs and benefits of maintaining print collections at the local level, and are moving increasingly toward shared management of print materials among neighboring institutions. We are on the cusp of a great opportunity: libraries could provide lasting benefits to scholarship and economies to their institutions by proactively developing a distributed print repository network on a regional, national or global scale.

Karen Schneider:
The Nature of Open: How Open Source and Web 2.0 Bring Us Back to the Roots of Librarianship.

Karen will demonstrate how the trends toward open source and Web 2.0 go full circle to some of the more extraordinary events in the history of librarianship. These include involvement in the Social Work movement of the early 20th century, libraries' roles in the rise of popular reading, early library automation projects and the librarian-led innovation that came out of these efforts, and then on to Web 2.0 and open source.

About the speakers

Lizanne Payne is the Executive Director at Washington Research Library Consortium http://www.wrlc.org. Since joining WRLC in 1989, she has presided over the implementation and ongoing development of WRLC's shared digital library system (known as ALADIN), and the construction and operation of a shared library storage facility which began operations in 1994. With over 25 years experience in information technology for libraries, she has been active in the field of library consortia, especially in the area of shared library systems and storage depositories.

Karen Schneider is the Community Librarian for Equinox Software, the support and development company for Evergreen open source library software. She is in the top five library bloggers with her blog http://freerangelibrarian.com and is an enthusiastic speaker, presenter and educator, who has published over 100 articles and two books. In 2000, Karen was named by PUBLIB as one of the top ten speakers in librarianship. Karen is also a prolific writer with her articles appearing in Nerve, Linux.com, IT Managers Journal, American Libraries, Library Journal, The Bottom Line, and Gastronomica.

Locations and Dates

Sydney	Thursday, 6 November	9.30 am – 12.30 pm	University of New South Wales
Brisbane	Friday, 7 November	2.30 – 5.00 pm	State Library of Queensland
Perth	Monday, 10 November	2.30 – 5.00 pm	State Library of Western Australia
Adelaide	Wednesday, 12 November	2.30 – 5.00 pm	State Library of South Australia
Melbourne	Friday, 14 November	2.30 – 5.00 pm	State Library of Victoria

Cost

$220 (including Australian GST) for VALA and CAVAL members; $297 (including Australian GST) for non-members. Prices include light refreshments.

Bookings

About VALA

VALA - Libraries, Technology and the Future, Inc. is a not-for-profit Australian organisation that aims to promote the use and understanding of information technology as it applies to practitioners in the library and information industries. VALA fulfils these aims via the highly respected and well attended VALA biennial conference, regular general meetings, annual student awards, the biennial VALA Robert D. Williamson Award, the VALA Award, and travel scholarships. In 2008 VALA is celebrating its 30th Anniversary.

About CAVAL

CAVAL is an Australian not-for-profit company established in 1978 to deliver specialised library services, training and storage to leading libraries in Australia, New Zealand and East Asia. Wholly owned by 12 Australian universities, CAVAL works with hundreds of academic, public and special libraries on a collaborative and commercial basis to support and enhance their services to clients and the community. CAVAL is also celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2008. For more details on CAVAL, see our web site at: http://www.caval.edu.au.

VALA and CAVAL acknowledge with thanks the valuable support of their venue partners: the University of New South Wales, State Library of Queensland, State Library of Western Australia, State Library of South Australia and State Library of Victoria.