VALA General Meetings

VALA holds regular general meetings covering recent and interesting developments in the application of information technology. They are open to all members of the community.

Meetings in 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic
23 April 2008 (rescheduled from 2 April)	Anne Holmes Kat Clancy	Facebook Your Library
28 May 2008	Bart Rutherford	Connecting in a Wireless World
25 June 2008	Elizabeth Drynan Pamela Johnstone	Notice of Annual General Meeting Our Online Journey
27 August 2008
22 October 2008
26 November 2008

Meetings in 2007

Date	Speaker	Topic
28 March 2007	Toby McAleer	Smash and Grab: using RSS and mashups to engage with online users The presentation is online and available at www.tgm2306.com/vala/
23 May 2007	Panellists Dennis Warren Di Clifford Gary Hardy Julie Rae	Does It Really Meta? A panel discussion on the pros and cons of federated searching
27 June 2007	Daniel Wilksch	Notice of Annual General Meeting Bringing Frederick Bailey Deeming back to life: digitising, preserving, and reinterpreting collections to engage with new audiences
22 August 2007	Jenny Sargeant	Smart thinking, smart learning, smart choice: preparing students for their futures
24 October 2007	Christine Mackenzie	Librarian 2.0
28 November 2007	Nicola Fern Merran Fuller Lynne Carmichael	A glimpse into the ABC’s future