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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 2009
Date
Speaker
Topic
25 March 2009
Dana McKay
A View from the Other Side of the Desk: User Experience in the Library
27 May 2009
Vivienne Waller
Accessing the State Library collection online: virtual visitors and catalogue users
24 June 2009
Dr Matthias Raab
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Open Source and Libraries. Why, what to do, what to look out for, and what are the benefits.
26 August 2009
Jon Peacocke
Imagining possibilities: the student experience of tomorrow
28 October 2009
Amanda Lawrence
Australian Policy Online (APO) goes open source...
25 November 2009
Sophie Black
Public Interest Journalism -- Where to from here?
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
Mal Booth
Preservation, digitisation, and using social media to engage with the community: Lessons from the Australian War Memorial
22 October 2008
Ilana Snyder
Literacy and Education in the Digital Age
26 November 2008
Andrew Apostola
Simon Goodrich
Getting Interactive and Getting Portable