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VALA2022 Online Session 5 Quigley

Research output management systems: are they designed for HASS researchers?

VALA2022 CONCURRENT 5

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 12:30 – 13:00

Niamh Quigley
  • Research Associate
  • Curtin University
Hollie White
  • Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Coordinator of Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Science
  • Deputy Director of Graduate Research
  • Curtin University
Julie Clift
  • Coordinator, Research Services
  • Curtin University

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This paper provides insights on how research output management systems are not meeting the needs of HASS (humanities, arts and social sciences) researchers. Three projects at Curtin University are discussed, with the shared goal of providing better support for HASS researchers to make their non-traditional research outputs available as open access.

Biography

Niamh Quigley graduated from the Master of Information Management at Curtin University in June 2021. Prior to this recent qualification in libraries, records and archives, Niamh had ten years professional experience in software test management. Combining these two areas has led to an interest in how to better represent research communities in institutional software systems, and how to increase the prevalence of open access. She is currently a casual academic at Curtin University in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry.

Dr. Hollie White is a Senior Lecturer in Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Science (LARIS) at Curtin University where she teaches and researches in the areas of metadata, cataloguing, and social justice. A former digital librarian, Hollie is passionate about making the world a better place through library education and metadata activism. She currently serves as the Postgraduate Coordinator for LARIS and is the Deputy Director of Graduate Research for the School of Media, Creative Arts, and Social Inquiry within the Curtin Faculty of the Humanities.

Julie Clift is Coordinator, Research Services at Curtin University with responsibility for the institutional repository (espace). Julie has led the espace team since May 2017. Prior to this Julie worked in a variety of roles in Curtin University Library, primarily involved with acquisitions and access to library resources. Julie was awarded the CAUL International Travelling Fellowship for 2012 to investigate the impacts of Next Generation Library Management Systems on electronic resource acquisitions. She is interested in access to information, including open access, and the development of library systems.

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VALA2020 Session 12 White

Practitioner and researcher collaboration through a student Master’s paper

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 12
Thursday 13 February 2020, 10:50 – 11:20

Hollie White
  • Lecturer
  • Curtin University
Janice Chan
  • Coordinator, Research Services
  • Curtin University
Amy Cairns
  • Librarian: Engineering
  • Edith Cowan University

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Australian library practitioners perceive that research performed by library researchers is often irrelevant and unaligned to what they need. Practitioner and researcher collaboration is one solution to address this issue. This paper explores a collaboration between an academic library and a library and information studies department that focuses on practitioner-relevant research conducted by a master’s student pursuing a Degree by Coursework. Using autoethnographic and critical reflective practice techniques, three different perspectives – an academic librarian, a library school researcher, and a master by coursework student – on the research collaboration will be presented and explored.

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VALA2020 Session 3 Greenhill

Kindness and UX in GLAMR online presence: same, same but different?

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Kathryn Greenhill
  • Western Australia

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Kindness, and its benefit to community and individuals, is a growing area of research and civic interest. This paper explores possible relationships between kindness and User Experience (UX), particularly within the online presence of publicly-funded Gallery, Library, Archives, Museums and Records (GLAMR) institutions. Library literature uses the term “kindness audit” to describe what are essentially UX studies within library buildings. This paper examines congruences and differences between UX and kindness, before extending the original idea of the kindness audit by suggesting four possible focus points, beyond UX, for a kindness audit of GLAMR online presence.

 

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VALA2018 Session 8 Greenhill

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Iterative and incremental evaluation works for software development, but can it be good for student learning initiatives in Australian academic libraries?

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION  8
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 10:50 – 11:20

Kathryn Greenhill and Karen Miller

Curtin University

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Iterative and incremental development in software engineering involves small, ongoing “evaluate, review, act” cycles, allowing rapid development of rough prototypes of a software product that can be altered and re-tested, long before the product is considered “finished” and made available to the final stakeholders. This paper investigates whether Australian academic libraries are currently applying iterative and incremental evaluation to the development of student learning initiatives run by the library. It examines whether there are possible places in the development-cycle of these initiatives where iterative evaluation could happen, and whether it actually does happen.

 

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VALA2014 Session 14 Wiebrands

 

‘I need more hands-on training!’: reflections on creating self-directed learning opportunities for library staff

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Skilling Time
Thursday 6 February 2014, 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2014-proceedings/vala2014-session-14-wiebrands

Constance Wiebrands

Edith Cowan University, WA

Michael Wiebrands

Curtin University, WA

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This paper uses the theory of self-directed learning to examine how library staff learn, in particular the perception that training is inadequate. It attempts to suggest ways of providing improved learning opportunities for staff in a changing environment. The results of a survey on how staff members from two university libraries perceive their learning are discussed.

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VALA2012 Session 15 Wells

 

VALA2012 Session 15 Wells

Streamed video in an academic library: expectations, challenges and response

VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: On Demand
Thursday 9 February 2012, 13:35 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-15-wells

David Wells and Diana Blackwood

Curtin University Library, WA

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Thursday, February 09, 2012, 1:45 PM AUSEDT, 27 Minutes.

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Streamed video is the latest type of content to gain the attention of educators and librarians. This paper examines the take up of this new resource type at Curtin University Library with particular attention to the use of individual streamed titles on the Kanopy platform. It includes reflections on the academic areas which are so far most engaged with streamed video materials, on the particular complexities they present for acquisitions departments, and on usage statistics for the first year of effective operation.

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VALA2012 Session 11 Greenhill

VALA2012 Session 11 Greenhill

No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing

VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Digitisation
Thursday 9 February 2012, 11:40 – 12:10
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-11-greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill

Curtin University, WA

Constance Wiebrands

Edith Cowan University Library, WA

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Thursday, February 09, 2012, 11:40 AM AUSEDT, 31 Minutes 24 Seconds.

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Twentieth century libraries were funded to provide content to their communities legally, easily and free. In the twenty-first century, new online competitors supply home consumers – legally and illegally – with what libraries traditionally were best at providing to library users – free and easy content. This paper suggests that library staff arguing for the value of contemporary libraries should be aware of the quality, methods and material of “hidden competitors”. Some “hidden competitors” discussed include “blackmarket” journal article sharing, BitTorrenting sites, online textbook sharing sites, self-distributing artists, programs to strip Digital Rights Management from ebooks, Amazon’s ebook distribution and (fan fiction). Possible future models for both “hidden competitors” and libraries – and implications of these – are suggested.

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VALA2004 Session 11 Genoni

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Virtual symposia: an investigation into scholarly communities online

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: User Behaviour
Thursday 5 February 2004, 10:45 – 11:15

Dr Paul Genoni

Lecturer, Dept of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology
www.curtin.edu.au

Dr Helen Merrick

Lecturer, Dept of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology
www.curtin.edu.au

Dr Michele Willson

Lecturer, Dept of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology
www.curtin.edu.au

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This paper reports on the pilot study for a survey regarding the use of the Internet by academic staff at Curtin University of Technology for the purposes of informal scholarly communication. The survey included questions regarding the respondents’ current and evolving research practices and their use of various services provided by the University Library. The paper reports on the relevant data, and suggests ways in which this might reflect on library services, in particular the development of institutional repositories as a means of supporting the emerging types of scholarly community.

VALA2004 Session 12 Sutherland

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An OpenURL resolver (SFX) in action: the answer to a librarian’s prayer or a burden for technical services?

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Access to Information
Thursday 5 February 2004, 10:45 – 11:15

Alison Sutherland

Bibliographic Services Librarian, Curtin University of Technology
http://library.curtin.edu.au

Peter Green

e-Library Development Librarian, Curtin University of Technology
http://library.curtin.edu.au

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This paper will reflect on the experience of installing, configuring and maintaining the Ex Libris’ OpenURL resolver – SFX. Particular attention will be paid to the extraordinary usefulness of this tool for gluing together the components of the resource discovery process. This paper will discuss the level of staffing required to maintain the resolver service, the skill sets required by those staff and the place of an OpenURL resolver within the extended ILMS. Finally the authors will speculate on the future of such a service within the portfolio of online services offered by a university library.

VALA2010 Session 11 Cook

VALA20120Keeping up: strategic use of online social networks for librarian current awareness

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 11 – Social Networking
Thursday 11 February 2010 10:30 – 11:00
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-11-cook

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperSue Cook

Information Specialist, CSIRO Information Management and Technology
http://www.csiro.au

Constance Wiebrands

Manager, Flexible Delivery and Lending Services, Curtin University Library
http://library.curtin.edu.au

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Librarians were surveyed in August 2009 about their use of online social networks for professional information. This paper describes the features of online social networking tools that facilitate the flow of relevant current awareness information. Practical methods that can be used strategically within tools to ensure that information is professionally relevant are described, including methods of discovery and evaluation.