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VALA2010 Session 11 Cook

VALA20120Keeping up: strategic use of online social networks for librarian current awareness

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 11 – Social Networking
Thursday 11 February 2010 10:30 – 11:00
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-11-cook

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperSue Cook

Information Specialist, CSIRO Information Management and Technology
http://www.csiro.au

Constance Wiebrands

Manager, Flexible Delivery and Lending Services, Curtin University Library
http://library.curtin.edu.au

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Librarians were surveyed in August 2009 about their use of online social networks for professional information. This paper describes the features of online social networking tools that facilitate the flow of relevant current awareness information. Practical methods that can be used strategically within tools to ensure that information is professionally relevant are described, including methods of discovery and evaluation.

 

VALA2010 Plenary 5 Rainie

VALA20120Networked creators: how users of social media have changed the ecology of information and created new roles for librarians to play in people’s lives

VALA 2010 PLENARY 5: Lee Rainie
Thursday 11 February 2010 08:45 – 09:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-5-rainie

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerLee Rainie

Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, USA
http://www.pewinternet.org

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The rise of bloggers, social networkers, Twitterers, and other social media participants has created an explosion of information and new forms of cultural contributions. As assessors and curators of media – old and new – librarians are especially confronted by the new challenges these changes march through their communities. This paper will document the changes, discuss the new kinds of communities that social media users create, and point out several fresh roles that librarians can play in serving people in the new information ecology.

VALA2008 Session 9 Feighan

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperMeasuring your work and reporting your value as we move to Library 2.0

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Management Information
Wednesday 6 February 2008 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-9-feighan

David Feighan

Assistant Director, Library & Information Services, Australian Taxation Office
http://www.ato.gov.au

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As libraries shift towards Library 2.0 structures and service delivery models, they face the challenge of continuing to measure and report meaningful metrics. At the same time, many host organisations have become increasingly focused on accountability and the reporting of value. This has had an impact on the rigour and detail expected of libraries when reporting to their host organisations. This paper looks at the current state of eLibrary performance metrics, and considers these metrics against the increasing demand to report more than just usage. In doing so, the paper considers the options available to libraries to measure and report value in the emerging Library 2.0 environment.

VALA2008 Session 7 Harrison

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperDelivering the evidence to the client

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Health Information
Wednesday 6 February 2008 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-7-harrison

Terence Harrison

Clinical Librarian, Royal Melbourne Hospital
http://www.rmh.mh.org.au

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This paper describes the evolution of the new Clinical Librarian role at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and how a website – ‘Evidence Direct’ – became central to that development. The facilities offered on the Evidence Direct website include asynchronous and synchronous communications, live access to Clinical Librarians worldwide, e-learning modules, access to an e-repository, blogs, wikis, and daily news (including RSS feeds), etc. The paper also goes on to describe how the Clinical Librarian role can have an impact upon the wider clinical governance scenario, contributing to the development of institution-wide guidelines and, in the case of RMH, to a new, major event – Evidence Week.

VALA2008 Plenary 6 Weibel

VALA2008 Keynote SpeakerMaking identifiers concrete (so library places and spaces don’t have to be)

Stuart WeibelVALA 2008 PLENARY 6: Stuart Weibel
Thursday 7 February 2008 15:40 – 17:00
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-plenary-6-weibel

Stuart Weibel

Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Programs and Research, USA
http://www.oclc.org

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Libraries are about the persistence of culture, and social networks are about fluid group behaviour. Mixing these idioms will allow users to swim in the social currents of peers, all the while embedded in the aggregated, organised wisdom fixed in the treasures of social heritage — and maybe enrich those treasures into the bargain. Achieving this vision requires systems of Web-scale standards and protocols on the one hand, and the participation of users that social networking applications promise on the other. The delivery of library services into such an environment requires rigorous notions of identity – of users, library assets, and of the shared context and content that emerge from their interaction. Dr. Weibel will share his personal view of how a better identifier architec ture will help us integrate these seemingly disparate worlds.

 

VALA2008 Plenary 2 Lor

VALA2008 Keynote SpeakerInternational Librarianship 2.0: some international dimensions of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

Peter LorVALA 2008 PLENARY 2: Peter Lor
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 16:10 – 17:25
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-plenary-2-lor

Peter Lor

Secretary General, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Netherlands and Professor Extraordinary, University of Pretoria, South Africa
http://web.up.ac.za

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The World-Wide Web is evolving into an interactive, multipolar social space, referred to as Web 2.0. Libraries are urged to follow suit, as implied by the term Library 2.0. A brief exploration of the evolving environment precedes a discussion of a number of trends which affect the library profession and which require attention at the international level. They include the commodification and dematerialisation of information, globalisation, and empowerment. Their effects are diverse and affect freedom of information, equity of access, and inclusion in the information society – three themes that are addressed as part of IFLA’s international advocacy programme.

VALA2008 Session 14 Heterick

VALA2008 Invited PaperShift happens: how the network effect, two-sided markets, and the wisdom of crowds are impacting libraries and scholarly communication

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Social Networking
Thursday 7 February 2008 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-14-heterick

Bruce Heterick

Director, Outreach & Participation Services, JSTOR, USA
http://www.jstor.org

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This session will discuss the changing nature of library services and scholarly research in the networked world. Our affiliated group of not-for-profit digital initiatives – JSTOR, ARTstor, Portico, and Aluka – has a unique perspective on this shifting environment. There is ongoing discussion about the evolving Web (or Web 2.0): the migration of the Internet from a platform to a service; the network effect that encourages (and values) contributions and collaborations; and a shift in software and services to a participatory model. This evolution is changing libraries, publishing, and scholarship. In particular, it is fundamentally changing the paradigm of scholarly communication, and this presentation will examine this change.

VALA2008 Session 4 Beaumont

VALA2008Conversations 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

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: Engaging Communities
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 15:10 – 15:40
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-4-beaumont

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperAnne Beaumont

Digital Systems Analyst, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

Kelly Gardiner

Web Services Manager, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

Stuart Flanagan

Senior Web Applications Developer, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

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In late 2005 the State Library of Victoria made a small change to the page on which its images were displayed over the Web. It added a link to a form which allowed the public to send comments on an image to the State Library of Victoria. The size and variety of the response was totally unexpected. As a result of this and because of a growing awareness of the discussion about Library 2.0, the development of ‘communities’, and a need to devise a way to manage the responses in line with library values in regard to privacy, authenticity of information and engagement a project was devised to analyse the responses. Results of this analysis are presented with example comments followed by a brief discussion on future plans for the project.

VALA2008 Session 11 Owen

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperDeakin Library website 2.0: iterative change for maximum gain

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Websites
Thursday 7 February 2008 11:55 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-11-owen

Sue Owen

Associate Librarian, Client Services, Deakin University Library
http://www.deakin.edu.au

Kat Clancy

Web Developer, Deakin University Library
http://www.deakin.edu.au

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The purpose of library websites is evolving. Deakin University Library originally undertook to redevelop its website to provide improved access to information, resources and services and to better meet clients in their space. The first phase redeveloped the library homepage and top level link pages. During this time, social networking applications were becoming part of higher education. There were new choices: the Library website and search tools could undergo significant metamorphosis; adopt Web2.0 functionality and move from being the public face of the online library to the public space of its online community, with students and staff as active partners in its development.