VALA2018 Session 8 Kingsley

Humanoid robotics and digital literacy in Australian libraries

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 8
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 12:00 – 12:30

Sam Kingsley

The Brainary

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The advent and commercialization of humanoid robotics has enabled Australian Libraries to access and utilise this technology to help develop digital literacy skills within their communities and to engage their communities in unique and innovative ways. Sam Kingsley from The Brainary and his robotic companion NAO will investigate the implementation of humanoid robotic technologies in Australian Libraries. The focus will be on the challenges, benefits and unexpected outcomes that this technology produces through the lens of Australian and International case studies.

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VALA2018 Session 16 Holley

The strategic rebuilding and positioning of UNSW Special Collections 2014-2018

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 16
Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:45 – 15:15

Rose Holley

UNSW Canberra

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Unique and Distinctive Collections (UDC) held in libraries, also known as ‘Special Collections’ contain research rich content that is unique, not digitised and difficult to access. These collections are now becoming strategically significant to our organisations, especially in the increasingly competitive academic environment where we all hold similar books and e-resources, but our unpublished content is our point of difference. UDC’s enable us to leverage research and learning opportunities, but only if they are unlocked and accessible.

In 2014 the UNSW made a strategic decision to focus on and invest in the rebuilding and positioning of the UNSW Special Collections which are located at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. Prior to this the Special Collections had been largely inaccessible for a decade. This presentation gives an overview of the four year programme of activities and projects undertaken from 2014 to present, that has moved the Special Collections from a critical state into a strong position for the future. This included a focus on physical content, management and storage; building a new repository; establishing governance; and partnerships with national institutions for data sharing, digitisation, and custody of collections. The Special Collections Strategic Framework 2018-2021 (part of the UNSW 2025 Strategy) will guide future work on collecting, curating and digitising collections.

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VALA2018 Session 11 Chadwick

Ben Chadwick

SCIS Resource Type Thesaurus: a linked data vocabulary for inferring Resource Type from MARC records

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 11
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 14:45 – 15:15

Ben Chadwick

Education Services Australia

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Resource Type (RT) is a multifaceted concept that is encoded in a range of elements in Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) records. However, expressions of RT are often unhelpful to users, and many records are inconsistent in how they represent it. The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) Resource Type thesaurus (SRT) is a linked data thesaurus defining RT categories, enabling searching, limiting, sorting and faceting by RT in the SCIS online catalogue. Semantic relations within SRT enable mappings to and from the thesaurus in spite of variations across legacy and current MARC records. The purpose, design, and possible applications of SRT are discussed.

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VALA2018 Session 18 Morey

Rickie Morey

When you need to debate, make sure it is well planned: developing communication strategies through online roleplay

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 18
Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:45 – 15:15

Rickie Morey and Chris Rawson

Deakin University

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This paper describes a case study of Deakin University Library’s role in creating an online roleplaying assessment in a first year unit of Environmental Sustainability. They are tasked with judging the quality and reliability of information, by participating in an activity reflecting real communication challenges in the sustainability field. Librarians and academics created an original assessment, using a uniquely developed online debating platform. The outcomes included improved student success and improved critical thinking. Based on a comparison of 2016 and 2017 unit success rates, this assessment was a successful collaboration between librarians and academics.

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VALA2018 Session 4 Jones

Descending upright among staring fish: improving the sustainability of the GLAM reef

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 4
Tuesday 13 February 2018, 14:45 – 15:15

Mike Jones

The University of Melbourne

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Inspired by Vladimir Nabokov and Donna Haraway, this paper explores interconnected collections using the concept of the reef. It is a world of accumulations and accretions, where short-term dynamism and change are supported by a coralline scaffolding that develops and solidifies over much longer timeframes. As the residents live, play, and feed, humans come to explore, some skimming over the surface, some snorkelling for a better view, others diving down in search of an in-depth encounter.

While galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) have engaged with visions of aggregation and relationality, our collections documentation and many of the systems we use remain comparatively linear, hierarchical, and discrete. Drawing on three years of research, into museums and their archives and libraries, this paper uses the metaphor of the reef to take a dive into the history of GLAM collection documentation. By highlighting the gap between current practice and contemporary understandings of the interconnected nature of collections, the author will argue that it is only through the implementation of more effective processes and sustainable systems that we can prevent fundamental collections knowledge regularly leaching away.

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VALA2018 Session 14 Harper

Glenn Harper

We need to talk about fake news

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 14
Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:25 – 11:55

Glenn Harper

Monash Public Library Service

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Everyone is susceptible to confirmation bias and experiences like the Dunning Kruger effect, including library staff. It has been argued that libraries, staffed by trusted information professionals, should be part of the solution to fake news (Alvarez 2017 and Chen, Conroy and Rubin 2015). This paper reviews the current phenomenon of fake news by defining some key terms and discusses insights into online behaviours that enable fake news to flourish. Finally, the paper looks at survey results and argues that steps should be taken to improve the digital information literacy of library staff.

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VALA2018 Session 9 Whitehead

Who am I? The evolution of online identity

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 11:25 – 11:55

Derek Whitehead

RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology

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This paper discusses the nature of online identity over the past twenty years, since Australians began to use the internet extensively in the mid-1990s. It highlights the growing role of Facebook, Google and other social software in providing frameworks for online identity, considers the ways people find this unsatisfactory, and then examines possible future developments. The paper concludes by raising the possibility of libraries playing a role in supporting Australians in the future as they develop their online identities, as libraries did in the beginning through Vicnet and other programs.

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VALA2018 Session 9 Harrison

Do androids dream of automatic theses? Integrating thesis examination with an institutional repository

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 12:00 – 12:30

Andrew Harrison

Monash University

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Moving from first generation to second generation institutional repository is an opportunity for Monash University Library to integrate the institutional repository into other University workflows to improve efficiency of collecting content. This paper documents a project to integrate a system to manage the examination of Doctoral and Masters Theses with the institutional repository. The outcome automatically and seamlessly integrates the passage of a thesis manuscript from submission for examination to archiving in a repository via collaboration with other administrative units and the use of API technology.

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VALA2018 Session 12 Fibrich

Natalia Fibrich

Translating disruption into action: next steps for a 21st century library service

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 12
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 15:20 – 15:50

Natalia Fibrich

Library Training Services Australia

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Libraries need to update their structures, processes and behaviours, to ensure that they adapt and maintain agility in disruptive times. To facilitate adaptability, it is critical that library leaders understand the context (both internal and external) of their libraries, have effective leaders, a high-performing team, identify customer and non-customer needs, foster a positive organisational culture and facilitate an effective organisational strategy and design. This paper goes through each of these factors with the goal of helping leaders translate disruption into strategic and positive action, to ensure library and information services remain as relevant as they always have been to society.

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VALA2018 Session 13 Cleary

Getting the balance right with ebooks

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 13
Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:25 – 11:55

Colleen Cleary

Queensland University of Technology

John Lenehan

ITHAKA

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This paper explores the challenges of provisioning a rapidly growing collection of ebooks using Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) and Evidence-based Acquisition (EBA), the advantages and disadvantages of each model, the impact of usage and purchase trends, and whether these models provide enough evidence to establish future demand and content value. It also briefly examines the impact of various types of discovery on ebooks, in contrast with ejournals.

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