Tuesday 13 February 2018
Roundtable Session 1 sponsored by RMIT University
1345 – 1440 Room: Plenary Hall 3
Topic: Community – how do we use technology to build community?
Sponsor representative: Dr Paul Mercieca, Program Director, Master of Information Management, RMIT University
Facilitator: Bart Rutherford
Guest Panellists:
- Angela Galvan, eResources Manager, Brown University Library
- David Lee King, Digital Services Director, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
- Michelle McLean, Information Services Coordinator, Casey Cardinia Libraries
- Prof Deb Verhoeven, Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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The Big Questions: How do we use technology to build community? Are we building community around technology or building community with technology?
Questions:
- What role do libraries play when big data is mining our communities and personalising experience?
- Can we find community in the long tail? Is there something for everyone and do libraries have a role?
- Is “Librarybook” enough in the age of Facebook?
- When did society get reduced to swiping left and right?
- How do libraries narrow the Digital Divide?
- What issues are GLAM’s facing when building community in the mobile age?
- What works, what doesn’t and what’s on the horizon? – Lessons learnt
- How does the broader GLAM sector better leverage technology to develop community?
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Roundtable Session 2 sponsored by GALE, A Cengage Company
1445 – 1550 Room: Plenary Hall 3
Topic: Connecting – How can we make data talk with data?
Sponsor representative: Matt Drury, Sales Director Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand
Facilitator: Melissa Parent
Guest Panellists:
- Neil Block, VP Global Open Source Innovation, EBSCO
- Marshall Breeding, Library Technology Guides
- Rosalia da Garcia, Managing Director, SAGE Publishing Asia-Pacific
- Marti Heyman, Executive Director of Metadata Strategy and Operations, OCLC
- Matt Miller, Pratt Institute’s School of Information, New York
- Tamar Sadeh, VP Teaching and Learning Solutions, Ex Libris
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The Big Questions:
- What are we doing to enable the metadata connections outside of the library ecosystem?
- How are we making web scale discovery happen?
Questions:
As a profession we give very thorough discussion to various aspects of how we connect end users with our data, be that traditional bibliographic data, additional data related to our resources, research data, or other. Similarly we have robust discussions about how we can connect machine users with our data, with machine users being the systems both inside and outside of libraries and other cultural institutions.
- What do you see as the key elements of making data connective, and why? Key elements could be such things as metadata standards, technical standards, workforce capabilities, but also much more.
- Discussion and debate within our ranks is extremely important, but action needs to follow. Are we doing enough to move beyond discussion and into action? If we are, what learnings can we take forward into a more connected future? If we aren’t doing quite enough yet, what do you see as the obstacles to overcome?
- As practitioners, in metadata roles or not, what should we be doing now for a more connected future?
Thursday 15 February 2018
Roundtable Session 3 sponsored by SAGE Publishing
1345 – 1440 Room: Plenary Hall 3
Topic: Content – opportunities and challenges
Sponsor representative: Lian Todd, Regional Manager, Library Sales (ANZ & SEA), SAGE Publications
Facilitator: David Feighan
Guest Panellists:
- Jacqui Barton, Education Manager, HarperCollins, Australia
- Antoine Bocquet, Vice President Institutional Sales, Japan, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Springer Nature
- Kim Jardine, Managing Director, James Bennett Pty Ltd
- Terry Robinson, Senior Vice President, Managing Director – International, Gale Cengage
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The Big Question:
- What strategies should libraries adopt to remain relevant in the changing environment and how can we work smarter with local publishers?
Questions:
The Content Roundtable will focus on the following questions with an eye to being relevant to the public and school library sectors as well as the higher education sectors:-
- How can libraries respond to the opportunities and challenges that arise from Amazon now operating in Australia?
- What does this mean for access to physical and online library collections?
- What is the impact on purchase models and on the preferences of library patrons to use the library collections or buy direct from Amazon?
- What ongoing impact will Google and Google Scholar have on how library patrons are accessing content? For example, the 2016 Elsevier annual report mentioned that transactional sales generate 27% of revenue.