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VALA2016 Session 6 Bryce

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Catriona 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

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Neil Godfrey
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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

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Courtney 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

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Brendan 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

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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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VALA2016 Session 15 Joc

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Two roads, one destination: a journey of discovery

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: Finding Things
Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
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Karen Joc, Peta Hopkins, Jessie Donaghey and Wendy Abbott

Bond University, Qld

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The adoption of resource discovery platforms has been a growing trend in libraries. However, few libraries have reported on the transition from one discovery layer to another, and only a few institutions have discussed two discovery layers available in the same institution at the same time. Bond University Library recently implemented Alma as its library management system, and with this change a new discovery platform, Primo, was implemented to supersede the existing Summon platform. This paper will present the results of a usability study undertaken at Bond University Library in the move from one discovery layer to another.

 

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VALA2016 Session 3 Pozzi

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Megan Pozzi
Megan Pozzi

Formalising the vernacular: social media skills in higher education

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Publish IT
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
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Megan Pozzi

Queensland University of Technology

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This paper discusses the issue of social media skills using a literacy framework. Firstly, it argues that social media skills are a form of vernacular, or ‘everyday’, literacy and articulates the issues associated with trying to formalise these skills within the curriculum. Secondly, it calls for greater explicit attention to social media skills within higher education, by arguing that social media literacies are a part of new literacies. It evaluates QUT’s “Create a Better Online You” suite of social media resources in light of this framework, and discusses the role of libraries in addressing social media skills.

 

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VALA2016 Session 15 Zanders

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Tony Zanders
Tony Zanders

Re-aligning library technology strategy: questioning the role of tradition in today’s technology evaluations

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: Discover IT
Thursday 11 February 2016, 10:50 –  11:20
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Tony Zanders

EBSCO Information Services, Vic

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This paper discusses the trends in current library technology evaluation processes, along with the role of first precedent in determining evaluation criteria. In particular, the paper discusses opportunities to rethink the way academic libraries evaluate technology purchases to better reflect the mission of the institution, the mission of the library, while positioning itself for stricter budgetary policies. Further, the author seeks to argue that an open, interoperable library framework is the most conducive to achieving a university’s strategic mission.

 

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VALA2016 Session 3 Parkes

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Anton Proppe
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For the ‘Common’ good: a centralised approach to university video publishing

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Publish IT
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
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Nyssa Parkes, Anton Proppe and Rob Rochester

Swinburne University of Technology, Vic

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Increasingly, video and audio resources are being used in the university environment to educate, distribute research findings, and broadcast public lectures and events.  Despite significant advances in technology, creating and distributing open-to-view and open-to-re-use video can be complex. Swinburne Library has established a centralised service called Swinburne Commons that supports staff in the storage, description and distribution of open video and audio content. In reflecting on the establishment of the service, this paper suggests that experience gained from institutional repositories and open publishing endeavours can give libraries an advantage in the distribution of other institutionally-created content, such as digital media.

 

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VALA2016 Session 14 Newton

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Michelle Riggs
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Kristy Newton
Kristy Newton

Everybody’s talking but who’s listening? Hearing the user’s voice above the noise, with content strategy and design thinking

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Design
Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
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Kristy Newton and Michelle Riggs

University of Wollongong Library, NSW

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Targeted, consistent content encourages library users to engage with our services and resources. As the user experience, particularly offshore, is largely defined by interactions with our virtual services, it is more important than ever to listen to the user and craft content that forms part of an ongoing conversation. This paper shares the University of Wollongong Library’s experience of developing a content strategy and using personas with design thinking to firmly place user experience at the heart of content and service delivery.

 

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