VALA2016 Session 14 Manuell

Romney Adams

Romany Manuell

You say you want a revolution: librarians as educational designers

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: IT Outside the Box
Thursday 11 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Romany Manuell and Romney Adams

Monash University, Vic

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Academic librarians’ educative role has evolved due to changing technological and pedagogical trends, and involvement in educational design can be seen as the latest iteration of this evolution. This paper presents the findings of a single-workplace study exploring the ways in which Monash University librarians have engaged in elements of educational design: the creation of eLearning objects, design of curriculum and assessment, and collaboration with pedagogical experts. In order to situate the survey amongst changing trends, the role of the educational designer and academic librarian in the educative space is investigated through academic literature. Engagement with educational design is then discussed through presentation of survey findings.

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VALA2016 Session 14 Burch

Amanda Burch

The Discovery Wall as a teaching and learning space: insights from Auraria Library

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: IT Outside the Box
Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
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Amanda Burch

University of Colorado Denver, USA

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This paper will discuss Auraria Library’s approach to implementing a video wall with moderate budget and staffing resources—completed on a more conservative, albeit impactful scale compared to other visualization initiatives in higher education. It will examine the challenges inherent in technology selection, staffing, programming, and evaluation of such emerging, innovative spaces in an academic library setting.

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VALA2016 Session 16 Daniels

Oculus Rift: activating heritage collections through technology

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 16: Virtual Travels
Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Ben Carmichael and Gerrard Daniels

Geelong Regional Library Corporation, Vic

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The Geelong Regional Library Corporation, in preparation for the opening of the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre, is investigating the ways cutting edge technology can enhance archival material. The incorporation of Geelong’s Heritage Centre items into the library’s collection offered the perfect opportunity to experiment with how historical material might be presented in exciting new ways. Using the Oculus Rift virtual reality hardware, local turn-of-the-century stereoscopic images have been given new life, allowing patrons to experience the past with anticipated future technology. This paper details the considerations, background and implementation of this project.

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VALA2016 Session 16 Organ

Christopher Moore

Michael Organ

Rebecca Daly

3D immersive collection and teaching environments: the Yellow House project at UOW

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 16: Virtual Travels
Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:20 – 15:50
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Michael Organ, Christopher Moore, Rebecca Daly and Neil Cairns

University of Wollongong, NSW

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This paper discusses the Yellow House VR project at the University of Wollongong. Innovative virtual reality technologies such as Oculus Rift are being utilised to recreate the 1970s Sydney artist community space known as the Yellow House, as both an historic replication and openly accessible, immersive teaching and learning environment for use and adaptation by teachers, students, researchers and the general community. The paper considers the role of the library in the enhanced presentation of digitised collections through new and evolving technologies which provide opportunities for knowledge enhancement and support the development of student e-portfolios.

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VALA2016 Session 17 Bicknell

Kenn Bicknell

Maps, manuscripts and the masses: successfully crowd-sourcing metadata for historic collections

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 17: Getting Social
Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Kenn Bicknell

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, USA

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New web-based technologies are providing information professionals with tools to collect and preserve historical resources as never before. Many institutions are engaging the public in assisting them with metadata creation to improve description, increase access, and expand the body of knowledge surrounding their resources. These activities not only provide organisations with critical human resources, but build a more informed and engaged community of users. This paper reviews examples of several types of these innovative projects and what the evolution of “crowd-sourced metadata” may mean for the professional role of future librarians, archivists and curators.

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VALA2016 Session 7 Lawler

Emma Lawler

The producers: rethinking roles to create an in-Library production team

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Rethink IT
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Emma Lawler

Macquarie University, NSW

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Staff at Macquarie University Library (MUL) have employed Project Based Learning (PBL) to facilitate multimedia skill development. This approach has created a team of people who are agile, enquiring, and creative. The paper suggests that by combining the application of a new set of media literacy skills with technology enhanced project-based learning, library technicians and frontline service librarians are given the opportunity to work on projects that equip staff with highly transferrable skills and a new attitude to projects and work while providing quality online information literacy support online at point of need to MUL clients.

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VALA2016 Session 18 McLean

IT Futures

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 18: IT Futures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Michelle McLean

Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation

Tania Barry

Hume Libraries

Felicity Gilbert

Yarra Plenty Regional Library

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Nowadays, technology plays a significant part in the delivery of library programs and services. For some libraries, the use of technology is commonplace, finding innovative ways to incorporate technology, leading the way in enhancing user experience. Others, however, struggle to find a way to incorporate technology into new or existing programs and services, facing barriers such as costs, resources and staff knowledge. This session will work as part presentation, part workshop with the expectation that attendees will participate in the majority of the session, with discussion and feedback. The session will comprise three parts.

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VALA2016 Session 1 Gilbey

Andrea Gilbey

2020 vision: the librarian, the publisher and the technologist

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Future Gazing
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
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Andrea Gilbey

Oxford University Press, Vic

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This paper explores ways members of the Library and Information Science(LIS) community, whether librarians, publishers, or IT professionals, can work together more closely in order to achieve common objectives such as excellence in research, education and the optimum provision of peer-reviewed digital content. It attempts to address the question “if we collaborate more effectively as industry partners, do we have a greater chance of survival”?

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VALA2016 Session 8 Rundle

Building a richly-featured library management platform that puts patron privacy first, using Meteor and Mylar

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Geek Speak
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
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Hugh Rundle

Brimbank Libraries, Vic

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Professional discourse amongst librarians has long emphasised the importance of user privacy, yet modern library systems have weak privacy protections and poor data security practices. This paper presents a conceptual model for a library circulation system, using the open source encryption software Mylar. The system would provide control over assets for libraries, whilst also allowing patrons to borrow anonymously and access private and secure enriched discovery services.

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VALA2016 Session 9 Burrows

Libraries and the digital humanities: partnership, collaboration and shared agendas

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Pathways
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Toby Burrows

King’s College London, UK

Deb Verhoeven

Deakin University, Vic

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Digital humanities is a rapidly growing global interdisciplinary field, reflected in a proliferation of conferences, events, journals, associations, research centres, grants, and courses. Digital humanities has a high profile because of its collaborative activity in building tools, developing services, carrying out projects, and producing ground-breaking research findings. There is a high level of interest from the library community in the digital humanities. This paper looks at the relationship between libraries and the digital humanities from an Australian perspective. The paper draws on the authors’ involvement within the digital humanities community, and especially their experience with developing HuNI: the Humanities Networked Infrastructure, a major digital infrastructure service for the humanities.

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