CONFERENCE PAPERS IN ORDER BY AUTHOR
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Note that, other than keynote presentations and two papers indicated below, each paper presented at the conference was fully refereed to DEST standards. That is, in a single-blind two-round process, at least two members of a national review panel have reviewed each paper.
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| Wendy Abbott and Mark Sutherland, Bond University, Qld Transforming the library for the new millennium |
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| Cameron Barnes and Karan Jones, University of New England, NSW Making a virtual community real: redeveloping eSKILLS Plus |
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| Anne Beaumont, Kelly Gardiner and Stuart Flanagan, State Library of Victoria Conversations or evidence – an analysis of responses from members of the public to an invitation to submit their comments about State Library of Victoria images available over the Web |
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| Jill Benn , University of Western Australia in Claim your space: re-placing spaces to better meet the needs of the Net Generation |
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| Chris Blackall, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, ACT in The metadata coal face for digital repositories |
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| Fiona Bradley, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA and Constance Wiebrands, Curtin University, WA Libraries interact: collaboration and community in the Australian library blogosphere |
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| Maxine Brodie, Macquarie University, NSW Watch this space! Designing a new library for Macquarie University |
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| Helen Bronleigh, Murdoch University, WA in Shibbolising Online Librarian: how two university libraries enhanced their collaborative chat reference service by using a MAMS Mini grant to add authentication and develop an interoperable chat client |
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| Annmaree Brown, Macquarie University, NSW in Shibbolising Online Librarian: how two university libraries enhanced their collaborative chat reference service by using a MAMS Mini grant to add authentication and develop an interoperable chat client |
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| Nancy Buckley, United Kingdom Serials Group, UK Streamlining the stress! How Project Transfer is improving the process of journals transferring between publishers |
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| Sally Burford , Charles Sturt University, NSW in The use of information architecture guidelines by Australian libraries |
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| Liz Burke, Jill Benn and Ralph Kiel, University of Western Australia Claim your space: re-placing spaces to better meet the needs of the Net Generation |
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| Adrian Burton, Chris Blackall and Scott Yeador, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, ACT The metadata coal face for digital repositories |
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| Adrian Burton, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, ACT in Looking forward by looking back: APSR’s contribution to future repository planning in Australia |
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| Alan Butters, Sybis, Vic New RFID technologies & standards – what does it all mean for your library? |
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| Kat Clancy, Deakin University, Vic in Deakin Library website 2.0: iterative change for maximum gain |
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| Peter Collins, State Library of Queensland in WRMS with legs: an organisation-wide approach to a work request management system |
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| Kate Davis, Gold Coast City Council, QLD, formerly of the National Library of Australia, ACT Be my buddy: IM and the future of virtual reference |
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| Alison Dellit, National Library of Australia, ACT Collecting the best data: improving cataloguing systems |
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| Carmel Denholm, State Library of Tasmania in All for naught: using existing bibliographic data to deliver modern search tools |
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| Basil Dewhurst, National Library of Australia, ACT People Australia: A Topic Based Approach to Resource Discovery |
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| David Feighan, Australian Taxation Office, Vic and Vanessa Lewis, Australian Taxation Office, NSW Measuring your work and reporting your value as we move to Library 2.0 |
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| Stuart Ferguson, Charles Sturt University, NSW in The use of information architecture guidelines by Australian libraries |
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| Stuart Flanagan, State Library of Victoria in Conversations or evidence – an analysis of responses from members of the public to an invitation to submit their comments about State Library of Victoria images available over the Web |
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| Schubert Foo
, Vice Dean, SCI, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Going virtual for enhanced library experience: a case study of the National Library of Singapore |
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| Ellen Forsyth, State Library of New South Wales Fancy walkie talkies, Star Trek communicators or roving reference? (2006 Travel Scholar) |
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| Kelly Gardiner, State Library of Victoria in Conversations or evidence – an analysis of responses from members of the public to an invitation to submit their comments about State Library of Victoria images available over the Web |
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| Michael Geist
, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Canada
Unlocking access: in support of a hands-on Internet policy |
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| Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology, WA in Changing library spaces: finding a place for print |
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| Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA Do we remove all the walls?: Second Life librarianship |
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| Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA in Libraries interact: collaboration and community in the Australian library blogosphere |
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| David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar, Monash University, VIC Building the ARROW community |
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| Garry Hall, Queensland Health Supporting health professionals in evidence-based practice: a case study of the Clinicians Knowledge Network |
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| Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Monash University, Vic in Data management and the curation continuum: how the Monash experience is informing repository relationships |
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| Terence Harrison, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Vic Delivering the evidence to the client |
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| Sandra Henderson and Matthew Walker, National Library of Australia, ACT Development of a rights management system for the National Library of Australia's collections |
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| Margaret Henty and Adrian Burton, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, ACT Looking forward by looking back: APSR’s contribution to future repository planning in Australia |
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| Bruce Heterick, JSTOR, New York, USA Shift happens: how the network effect, two-sided markets, and the wisdom of crowds are impacting libraries and scholarly communication (Not peer reviewed) |
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| Philip Hider, Sally Burford and Stuart Ferguson, Charles Sturt University, NSW The use of information architecture guidelines by Australian libraries |
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| Emily Hudson, University of Melbourne, VIC Australia's new flexible copyright exception: open-ended in name only? (Invited paper - not peer reviewed) |
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| Tony Iezzi, Vision Australia, Vic Accessing information in new ways |
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| Heather Jenks, AUT University, NZ Utilising tools for discovery |
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| Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL Collaborative Solutions, Vic and Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology, WA Changing library spaces: finding a place for print |
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| Graeme Johanson, Monash University, Vic in Library manager perspectives of the Vocational Education Sector: investigating trends and issues within a Learning Commons paradigm |
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| Bonna Jones, RMIT University, Vic and Yen Wong, State Library of Victoria Virtual and physical: architect Christopher Alexander on living spaces |
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| Ralph Kiel, University of Western Australia in Claim your space: re-placing spaces to better meet the needs of the Net Generation |
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| Danny Kingsley, Australian National University, ACT Repositories, research and reporting: the conflict between institutional and disciplinary needs |
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| Barbara Kirkham and Peter Collins, State Library of Queensland WRMS with legs: an organisation-wide approach to a work request management system |
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| Wilma Kurvink, Wesley College, VIC A new paradigm for reference librarians in the online world: developing relationship around research and learning with library users |
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| Geoff Lattimore, University of Western Sydney, NSW Equity, the digital library and a new Medical School |
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| Jan Lavelle, State Library of Tasmania in All for naught: using existing bibliographic data to deliver modern search tools |
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| John Law, ProQuest, USA Observing student researchers in their native habitat |
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| Peodair Leihy, Victoria University, Vic in Fairy tales and Elggs: social networking with student rovers in learning commons |
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| Lynette Lewis, Yarra Plenty Regional Library, Vic Library 2.0: taking it to the street |
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| Vanessa Lewis, Australian Taxation Office, NSW in Measuring your work and reporting your value as we move to Library 2.0 |
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| Peter Lor
, Secretary General, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Netherlands and Professor Extraordinary, University of Pretoria, South Africa International Librarianship 2.0: some international dimensions of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 |
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| Rob McCormack, Victoria University, Vic in Fairy tales and Elggs: social networking with student rovers in learning commons |
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| Jean McKay and Helen Bronleigh, Murdoch University, WA, Annmaree Brown and Margaret Wright, Macquarie University, NSW Shibbolising Online Librarian: how two university libraries enhanced their collaborative chat reference service by using a MAMS Mini grant to add authentication and develop an interoperable chat client |
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| Paul Mercieca, RMIT University, Vic Publication patterns of Australian academics and the impact on open access publishing |
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| Robin Murray, OCLC, UK Building Web scale for libraries |
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| Sue Owen and Kat Clancy, Deakin University, Vic Deakin Library website 2.0: iterative change for maximum gain |
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| Natalie Pang and Graeme Johanson, Monash University, Vic Library manager perspectives of the Vocational Education Sector: investigating trends and issues within a Learning Commons paradigm |
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| Carla Pilarski and Debbie Posker, University of Newcastle, NSW Reaching the audience using podcasts, SMS/texting and blogs at the University of Newcastle Library |
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| Debbie Posker, University of Newcastle, NSW in Reaching the audience using podcasts, SMS/texting and blogs at the University of Newcastle Library |
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| Andy Powell, Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation, UK Repositories through the looking glass |
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| Joann Ransom, Horowhenua Library Trust, New Zealand Kete Horowhenua : the story of the District as told by its people |
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| Peter Ring, Victoria University, Vic in Fairy tales and Elggs: social networking with student rovers in learning commons |
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| Christine Sayer, State Library of Queensland in Queensland Stories: community, collections and digital technology at the State Library of Queensland |
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| Lloyd Sokvitne, Jan Lavelle and Carmel Denholm, State Library of Tasmania All for naught: using existing bibliographic data to deliver modern search tools |
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| Deb Stumm and Christine Sayer, State Library of Queensland Queensland Stories: community, collections and digital technology at the State Library of Queensland (2006 VALA Award) |
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| Mark Sutherland, Bond University, Qld in Transforming the library for the new millennium |
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| Kim Tairi, Swinburne University of Technology, Vic, Rob McCormack, Peodair Leihy and Peter Ring, Victoria University, Vic Fairy tales and Elggs: social networking with student rovers in learning commons |
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| Andrew Treloar, ARROW Project, Vic and Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Monash University, Vic Data management and the curation continuum: how the Monash experience is informing repository relationships |
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| Andrew Treloar, Monash University, VIC in Building the ARROW community |
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| Vanessa Tuckfield, Canberra Institute of Technology, ACT Intellectual Property/copyright, potentially more than just an elective | |
| Matthew Walker, National Library of Australia, ACT in Development of a rights management system for the National Library of Australia's collections |
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| Stuart Weibel
, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Programs and Research, USA Making identifiers concrete (so library places and spaces don't have to be) |
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| Stuart Weibel
, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Programs and Research, USA presenting Building Web scale for libraries |
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| Constance Wiebrands, Curtin University, WA in Libraries interact: collaboration and community in the Australian library blogosphere |
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| Yen Wong, State Library of Victoria in Virtual and physical: architect Christopher Alexander on living spaces |
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| Margaret Wright, Macquarie University, NSW in Shibbolising Online Librarian: how two university libraries enhanced their collaborative chat reference service by using a MAMS Mini grant to add authentication and develop an interoperable chat client |
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| Luke Wroblewski
, Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design, Yahoo! Inc. and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, USA Designing for today's Web |
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| Scott Yeador, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, ACT in The metadata coal face for digital repositories |
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