VALA2002 Session 1 O’Connor

Evolution of a Collaborative Solution for Academic Libraries: The Victorian Academic Digital Library VADL)

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Collaboration
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:20 – 11:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002-proceedings/vala2002-session-1-oconnor

Steve O’Connor

CAVAL Collaborative Solutions

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The CAVAL member libraries believe that the major issue confronting libraries at the start of the New Millennium is collection development. These Libraries have been committed to the achievement of VADL for the past twelve months. VADL will be a Digital Library which will be shared and yet reflect the interests of each of the discipline interests of the member universities. VADL has established a range of research into the shape and extent of existing collections within Victoria. This paper highlights the path taken by these libraries, how their response differs from the American experience and how collaboration can be achieved through a new service model.

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VALA2002 Session 14 Aulich

Self-service — the revolution’s here!

VALA 2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: e-services
Friday 8 February 2002, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002-proceedings/vala2002-session-14-aulich

Michael Aulich and Christine Mackenzie

Brisbane City Council Library Services

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Increasingly public libraries are recognising the need to move from the supermarket checkout model of operations to upskilling their scarce staff to provide information and outreach services to their communities. Hiring more staff is not generally an option in these times, and it is imperative that libraries encourage their customers to move increasingly to a self-service paradigm, particularly for circulation.

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VALA2002 Session 14 Lawton

Wireless Web For Public Libraries

VALA 2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: e-services
Friday 8 February 2002, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002-proceedings/VALA2002-session-14-lawton

Trevis Lawton

Online Services Development Coordinator, City of Joondalup Library Services
http://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au

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The development of wireless technologies over the past twelve months has seen rapid expansion of the types of services that can be provided to mobile phones and personal digital assistants, with much more to come. Libraries must acknowledge the change in communication methods as a long term opportunity and begin planning for expanding market share by developing different types of services that take advantage of the new medium. The City of Joondalup Libraries have trialled a wireless website that offers basic services in order to better understand the challenges of the future.

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VALA2002 Session 15 Cunningham

The Open Road: language technology developments and public library services

VALA 2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: e-nabling Technologies
Friday 8 February 2002, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002-proceedings/VALA2002-session-15-cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Multilingual Technical Project Officer, Accessibility and Evaluation Unit, VICNET, State Library of Victoria

Larry Stillman

Accessibility and Evaluation Unit VICNET, State Library of Victoria, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University

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Language technology and access to the internet are crucial components in the development of flexible and responsive library services to culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Minority and emerging languages need public access. Internet access is one way of breaking the linguistic barriers that have been erected around minority and emerging languages. This paper reviews the Open Road multilingual website (www.openroad.vic.gov.au) from a technical perspective, outlining current strengths and limitations of major operating systems and browsers in the display of different character sets. Some solutions for entry and display of languages are offered for public access systems in public library environments.

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VALA2002 Session 15 Webb

Factors which influence the successful implementation of digital technology in Aboriginal communities

VALA 2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: e-nabling Technologies
Friday 8 February 2002, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002-proceedings/VALA2002-session-15-webb

Phillipa Webb

Northern Territory Library and Information Service

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The success of digital library projects in Native American, Canadian Indian and Alaskan Villages has been characterised by broad based resource support, which is virtually non existent in remote locations in Australia. This paper identifies the opportunities that exist to improve the success of digital projects which will ensure that Australia’s Indigenous peoples have the opportunity to collaborate with an emerging alliance of Indigenous Nations across the globe.

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VALA2002 Plenary 1 Greenstein

Next Generation Digital Libraries

VALA 2002 PLENARY 1: Daniel Greenstein
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 09:00 – 10:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002-proceedings/vala2002-plenary-1-greenstein

Daniel Greenstein

Digital Library Federation, Washington, D.C., USA
http://www.clir.org

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The article traces the development of digital libraries and asks what is next for a suite of activities (or is it in an organizational form?) that is fundamentally important to the future of research, learning, and cultural engagement. It focuses largely on the experience of leading US research libraries as a spring-board to two discussions: about key challenges that digital libraries more generally may confront in the next few years, and about how national cultural, legal, and funding regimes may influence the digital library’s history and its future course.

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