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VALA2000 Session 7 Harrison

Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2000-proceedings/vala2000-session-7-harrison

Monash Lectures Online: cost effective flexible delivery

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Flexible Delivery
Thursday 17 February 2000, 14:00 – 14:30

Andrew Harrison

Project Officer, Monash University Library
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au

Georgina Binns

Music and Multimedia Librarian, Monash University Library
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au


VALA Peer Reviewed Paper

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Abstract

This paper discusses the implementation of the Monash Lectures Online service within the Monash University Library. In particular, the paper discusses the issues involved in shifting from an analogue taped lecture service to a digital World Wide Web environment. Major issues discussed include the technological development involved in the service and the implementation and effectiveness of the user interface.

 

VALA2010 Session 10 Bonnington

VALA20120The changing landscape of research: tools and methods for 21st century discovery

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 10 – Looking Forward
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-10-bonnington

VALA2010 Invited PaperPaul Bonnington

Director, e-Research Centre, Monash University
http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/index.html

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Abstract

The US National Science Foundation noted in recent reports on 21st Century Discovery and Virtual Research Organisations that increasingly researchers (from all domains) are working in virtual teams across institutions. Furthermore, they are creating, compiling, accessing, analysing, linking and storing terabytes of digital research data through joint experimentation, observation and simulation. They note that the dynamic linking of data generated through this joint observation and simulation is enabling the development of new research methods that adapt intelligently to evolving conditions to reveal new understanding. In this talk, we highlight this phenomenon in the Australian context, and demonstrate how technologists, information specialists and domain specialists can work together in partnership to create local services and infrastructure to support 21st century discovery.

VALA2010 Session 6 Harrison

VALA20120Not drowning, ingesting: dealing with the research data deluge at an institutional level

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 6 – Repositories
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 14:05 – 14:35
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-6-harrison

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperAndrew Harrison

ARROW Librarian, Monash University Library
http://lib.monash.edu.au

Sam Searle

Data Management Coordinator, Monash University Library
http://lib.monash.edu.au

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Abstract

Australian government funding and policy guidelines increasingly encourage researchers to deposit their research data in institutional or subject repositories, but there are significant technical and organisational practicalities involved in achieving this. In this paper, Monash University Library staff members with responsibility for repository development and research data management describe their work together to establish the Monash University ARROW Repository as a key part of the university’s overall program to improve research data management. Repository-related activities are discussed in the context of wider developments, both in technical infrastructure and in terms of professional development and outreach to researchers.

Student Award 2010 Monash

The 2010 VALA Student Award for a student at Monash University goes to Debra Dorfan.

Debra is a hardworking and committed mother and professional-to-be. She struggles to manage her scarce time and resources very carefully. As a mature-age student with 3 primary school age children, she embarked on study at Monash University partly to prove that she was not too old to follow her dreams and partly because she realised that she had decades of working life ahead and that she might as well be doing something she is passionate about.

Initially her ambitions were small: to become a librarian. An obvious advantage of that would be that she would have a specific occupation rather than just a nebulous, vague statement about working in human resources and administration that was her previous work identity, which always made her feel inadequate.

 

After four long years of juggling one subject per semester, a part-time job, a family and a home, she is now at the end of a new road. Thanks to the Monash course structure, she is no longer scared of facing technology (including its jargon) and its implications. Information and knowledge and the management of them are the buzz everywhere, and Debbie feels she now has the skills and can tap into resources to be part of the solution rather than just pondering the problem.

When thinking where she will go with her new qualifications she is excited, because she believes we are at a new frontier, and as an information professional she will be helping to shape the landscape, and to make decisions and formulate strategies and solutions that will form the future.

Debra believes that as that future is not yet clear, her occupational choices are not totally defined and to a large extent will be what professionals make of them. On a more practical level, she aims to find a good job in a library to consolidate her learning and to get industry experience.

Congratulations, Debbie, and good luck!

Student Award 2009 Monash

The 2009 VALA Student Award for a student at Monash University goes to Iris Perkins.

Iris completed her Monash Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) degree last November, after studying part-time since 2004. She had an overall average of over 82% across the units she had taken, including eight ‘High Distinctions’ and three ‘Distinctions’.

Iris had a background in school librarianship, having gained her Bachelor of Education (School Librarianship) from Monash Gippsland in the 1980s. More recently, she has been working in academic libraries, and is currently the Campus Librarian/Library Manager at the Shepparton Campus of La Trobe University.

Iris has a wide interest across the information and knowledge management field, and has used her studies as a way of expanding her understanding of the wider information field. In her MIMS degree, Iris has undertaken professional tracks in electronic recordkeeping and archiving and in knowledge management. She has completed two special project units—one on digital preservation, and the other on the use of e-books by nursing students at her library. For her electives, she has taken one unit on the ‘Multimedia Industry’ and another on ‘History and the Museum.’ This clearly demonstrates Iris’s breadth of interest in information management.

Her outstanding performance is evidenced through the following comments from her project supervisors:

For her project on digital preservation:

‘A well written and presented literature review, that clearly demonstrates the depth of knowledge you have gained in this area and shows that you are capable of synthesising and distilling a clear argument from a range of published sources – an especially tricky task given the burgeoning and diverse literature available on the topic of digital preservation. Your review was extremely readable – the nature and number of the notes I made on my copy is testament to the interesting questions raised in your collation of the literature.

For her project on e-book usage by nursing students at La Trobe University Library, Shepparton:

‘Her work was thorough and original; very little objective research has been undertaken to determine readers’ perceptions of e-books. She worked conscientiously with minimal supervision, and produced a publishable conference paper as a result. Her findings, contrary to the market research emanating from vendors, were important. She found that most students did not use e-books unless they had no alternatives, and that the lecturing staff were an important influence on whether students adopted ebooks or not.’

Monash University staff said that Iris’s demonstrated commitment to expanding her horizons in the information arena, and her outstanding academic performance, make her an ideal candidate for the VALA award.

Congratulations, Iris!

 

Student Award 2008 Monash

 

The 2008 VALA Student Award for a student at Monash University goes to Esmae Boutros.

Majoring in Librarianship and Recordkeeping and Archiving, Esmae achieved 5 High Distinctions, 4 Distinctions, and one credit. Some time ago, she undertook a BA degree at Monash in Linguistics and Physiology.

For her the Master of Information Management and Systems degree has provided the context for the importance of all the administrative and conceptual tools that she has gathered over the years for the management of data and information. These skills have been necessary to complete the tasks she has been set in employed or voluntary situations, and for effective survival from day-to-day. It not only gave her the ‘why’ for the ‘what’, but also gave her a passion to keep on the cutting edge of ‘how’.

Currently Esmae is Assistant Registrar at Donvale Christian College, where she is responsible for the availability of accurate information regarding the number of students coming into and leaving the school community at any point of time. Such information is necessary for strategic thinking, budgeting, employment of academic and support staff, resource management, and the fulfilment of governance obligations.

In the past, she has worked as a Legal Secretary, with the primary role of creating, capturing, organising, and selectively pluralising records of legal (or illegal) actions. She managed an Intranet to promote collaborative relationships and sharing via a centralised repository for documents and work spaces. She has also worked as Executive Secretary to the Director, Research and Development, World Vision Australia.

At some point in the future she would love to play a role in the preservation and dissemination of valuable records that cannot currently be accessed. She also wants to see libraries hold their own in the provision of quality information by the discerning use of past experience and new technologies.

Congratulations, Esmae!

Student Award Monash 2001 to 2007

The VALA Student Awards for students at Monash University from 2001 to 2007

  • 2007 Rebecca French
  • 2006 Mary Neazor
  • 2005 Penelope Legge
  • 2004 Christina Davidson
  • 2003 Suzie Geermans
  • 2002 Emma Downing
  • 2001 Robert Rochester

 

Student Award RMIT 2001 to 2007

The VALA Student Awards for students at RMIT University from 2001 to 2007

  • 2007 Marion Slawson
  • 2006 Anna Farrell
  • 2005 Rosemary Smith
  • 2004 Simone Pakin
  • 2003 Helen Shipperlee
  • 2002 Zoe Velonis
  • 2001 Carol Bradford

 

VALA2008 Session 6 Treloar

VALA2008Data management and the curation continuum: how the Monash experience is informing repository relationships

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Publishing
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 15:10 – 15:40
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-6-treloar

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperAndrew Treloar

Director, Australian National Data Service Establishment Project, Monash University
http://its.monash.edu.au

Cathrine Harboe-Ree

University Librarian, Monash University
http://lib.monash.edu.au

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Abstract

Repositories are evolving in response to a growing understanding of institutional and research community data and object management needs. This paper (building on work already published in DLib, September, 2007) explores how one institution has responded to the need to provide management solutions that accommodate different object types, uses and users. It introduces three key concepts. The first is the curation continuum, which identifies a number of characteristics of data objects and the repositories that contain them. The second divides the overall repository environment based on these characteristics into three domains (research, collaboration and public), each with associated repository/data store environments. The third is the curation boundary, which separates each of the three domain types.

VALA2008 Session 2 Pang

VALA2008Library manager perspectives of the Vocational Education Sector: investigating trends and issues within a Learning Commons paradigm

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Library Spaces
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 11:20 – 11:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-2-pang

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperNatalie Pang

Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au

Graeme Johanson

Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au

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As a joint research project between Monash University and a partner organisation, the Victorian Association of TAFE Libraries (VATL), the study reported in this paper investigated challenges which face TAFE libraries. To assess the suitability of the Learning Commons concept, interviews, questionnaire surveys, and a conference dialogue between library managers were used. Important themes emerged and were evaluated. The paper explores significant findings from two surveys which show how TAFE libraries have changed as places and digital spaces.