VALA2016 Session 7 Chua

Beyond library walls: supporting academic capacity building with digital technologies

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Rethink IT
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
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Sharon Chua

Deakin University, Vic

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The use of digital technology tools is one of the many ways to help academics meet student-learning needs. With diverse student cohorts and high enrolment numbers, there is also a challenge for library support to be inclusive, engaging and sustainable. Academics are often time poor and unaware of how these digital technologies can be used to contribute to their teaching. This paper is written from a business librarian’s perspective on how academics were supported in learning and utilising digital technologies. It consists of a critical reflection of the journey.

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VALA2016 Session 7 Deacon

Learning by (more than) doing: developing staff capability through the collaborative creation of an eLearning module

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Learning
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Megan Deacon, Amy Han, Melanie Thorn and Steven Yates

Monash University, Vic

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This paper describes how Monash University Library created an online learning copyright resource for university staff as an artefact of an in-house blended learning course. The Copyright Module was developed through library staff collaboration and transference of skills. The team undertook continuous evaluation from multiple perspectives to inform the design, development and implementation of the module. Through this multi-dimensional approach, the team was able to create prototype activities for the module and use them to create other resources by involving the target audience in decisions about the module’s improvement. This process has led to a template of design principles for future work on this module, making it a sustainable model for in-house development of other online learning resources.

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VALA2016 Session 6 Bryce

Catriona Bryce

Trove and social media today: does a click through mean what we think it means?

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Counting IT
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Catriona Bryce

National Library of Australia, ACT

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Using social media is now business as usual for the National Library of Australia and Trove. The Trove team believes that it is engaging people in these spaces, people who know and love Trove and those who have never heard of it. The team believes it is promoting the use of Trove. But is this true? Do people really click through to those links? Do people find Trove and keep coming back? Understanding what the team at Trove wants to achieve in social media is crucial to assessing its value. Is impact in the numbers, the individual stories of lives changed, or is it an interweaving of both?

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VALA2016 Session 5 Mamtora

Neil Godfrey

Preserving a living archive of Indigenous language material

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Warding the Past
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 15:20 – 15:50
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Neil Godfrey, Jayshree Mamtora and Catherine Bow

Charles Darwin University, NT

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This paper describes how Charles Darwin University Library is directly helping to sustain and preserve Aboriginal languages and culture that have been facing hurdles for long-term survival. The Library, in partnership with an ARC-funded research project known as the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages (www.cdu.edu.au/laal), supports this effort with a repository, web application and digitisation program to preserve endangered Indigenous resources and facilitate both Indigenous community engagement and international linguistic research. The project serves as a rich case study demonstrating how academic libraries can work with researchers to support the archiving of cultural heritage.

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VALA2016 Session 5 Ruge

Courtney Ruge

Digital image collections and social media sharing: goals, strategies, and challenges for Australian cultural institutions

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Warding the Past
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Courtney Ruge and Tom Denison

Monash University, Vic

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This paper reports on the use of social media in conjunction with digital image collections by Australian cultural institutions. The research draws upon an adaptation of the theory of affordances in examining the goals, implementation, and outcomes of a sample of cultural institutions in using digital image collections in various combinations with social media platforms. The implications and challenges associated with establishing and maintaining a strong presence within the spaces of image-sharing and information-sharing via social media and digital image collections are explored, including examples from the current practices of Australian cultural institutions obtained through a website survey and interviews with industry professionals.

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VALA2016 Session 17 Fitzgerald

Brendan Fitzgerald

A national approach to digital inclusion and digital literacy: what can this mean for public libraries?

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 17: Social
Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:20 – 15:50
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Brendan Fitzgerald, Lisa Fletcher and Tegan Kop

Infoxchange, Vic

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Australia is currently facing a digital literacy challenge, as one in five adult Australians have not used the Internet. This paper looks at digital literacy and asks what this means for public libraries and how are they responding to technological change. In particular, it examines the Go Digi (www.godigi.org.au) project, Australia’s first national approach to digital literacy. Go Digi is designed to improve the digital confidence of 300,000 Australians.

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VALA2016 Session 4 Pepper

A textbook example: the academic library and Cengage Learning eTextbook pilot

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: Working Together
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 15:20 – 15:50
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Alison Pepper

University of Wollongong, NSW

Maryce Johnstone

Cengage Learning, Vic

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This paper shares both publisher and library perspectives and findings from a 2014/2015 Cengage-Learning eTextbook pilot project, an Australia and New Zealand first for institutional elending and region-specific eTextbooks for the academic library. In mid-2014, seven eTextbooks were released via established aggregator platform, EBL, with a three-concurrent-user model. An additional twenty titles were added for first semester 2015. Preliminary results are presented in this paper. The benefits of integrating and experiencing eTexts in new Teaching and Learning paradigms has yet to be fully realised across stakeholders, posing both risk and opportunity for both library and publisher.

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Beyond library walls: supporting academic capacity building with digital technologies

Sharon Chua

Abstract

Learning by (more than) doing: developing staff capability through the collaborative creation of an eLearning module

Megan Deacon, Amy Han, Melanie Thorn and Steven Yates

Abstract

Altmetrics: social media metrics tools expanding the librarian’s role

Richard P. Hulser

Abstract

Trove and social media today: does a click through mean what we think it means?

Catriona Bryce

Abstract

Preserving a living archive of Indigenous language material

Neil Godfrey, Jayshree Mamtora and Catherine Bow

Abstract

Digital image collections and social media sharing: goals, strategies, and challenges for Australian cultural institutions

Courtney Ruge and Tom Denison

Abstract

A national approach to digital inclusion and digital literacy: what can this mean for public libraries?

Brendan Fitzgerald, Lisa Fletcher and Tegan Kop

Abstract

A textbook example: the academic library and Cengage Learning eTextbook pilot

Alison Pepper

Maryce Johnstone

Abstract