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 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