VALA2016 Session 15 Tiffen

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vala invited paper reviewed
Belinda Tiffen
Belinda Tiffen

Moving Beyond Search … Towards Discovery

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: Discover IT
Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:25 –  11:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-15-tiffen

Belinda Tiffen

University of Technology Sydney, NSW

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Abstract

In 2014 UTS Library opened the first underground and RFID-enabled automated storage and retrieval system in Australia. The shift of about 500,000 low-use print materials from open stacks necessitated a major change in our approach to collection discovery. Older systems predicated towards efficient known-item searching would not meet our clients’ requirements for browsing and serendipitous discovery as an important part of their research, learning and sense-making activities. UTS Library has therefore commenced on an iterative and human-centred design process to develop discovery systems and to provide other initiatives which meet the needs of our clients and enable rich, contextual information discovery and retrieval. In this paper we will outline some of these systems and initiatives and demonstrate some prototypes we have been developing.

 

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VALA2010 Session 2 Booth

VALA20120A new vision for university libraries: towards 2015

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 2 – Physical and Virtual Access
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 12:00 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-2-booth

VALA Peer Reviewed Paper

 

 

Mal Booth

Director of Education and Research Services,
University of Technology, Sydney
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au

Sophie McDonald

Information Services Librarian,
University of Technology, Sydney
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au

Belinda Tiffen

Kuring-gai Library Manager,
University of Technology, Sydney
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au

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UTS: The Library of the Future on YouTube

Abstract

At UTS, plans for a new library building to open in 2015 are fuelling a re-imagining of our library. We are moving towards a new sustainable, client focussed and innovative library that will find its physical expression in a new library building, but is envisioned as being situated equally in the physical and digital environments. In this paper, we aim to describe our vision of the future by revealing some of the plans and projects already underway at UTS Library, and also by speculating a bit on our future – and perhaps yours.