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VALA2020 Session 9 Berthon

Trove—a collaborative approach to digital: more content and showcasing our Partners

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Hilary Berthon
  • Assistant Director, Trove Outreach
  • National Library of Australia
Julia Hickie
  • Assistant Director, Trove Data, Discovery & Delivery
  • National Library of Australia
Peter Collins
  • Assistant Director, Digitisation & Document Delivery
  • National Library of Australia

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For a decade Trove has been a place to find, marvel at and engage with the many perspectives and stories that are represented in Australia’s collective heritage. Collaboration is fundamental to this success. Organisations nominate and support the digitisation of content important to their communities, which in turn increases usage. This paper examines both the business and technical aspects of the digitisation process. It also explores recent improvements to the process for both Partners and Trove users. These include a new self-service Partner dashboard for better metrics, enhanced search capabilities and improved opportunities for community engagement

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VALA2020 Session 9 Chang

Beyond makerspaces to a network of regional innovation hubs

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:50 – 11:20

May Chang
  • Library Chief Technology Officer
  • University of Cincinnati

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Makerspaces have been well received and used in communities, libraries, and universities, and those in Cincinnati, Ohio are no exception. However, there is limited outreach to and access by schools and adult learning programs. The Greater Cincinnati Regional Smart Campuses project broadens the scope to create a regional network of smart innovation hubs in public schools and some local communities that complement makerspaces. This will also provide more equitable access to technology resources and help bridge the digital divide.

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VALA2020 Session 8 Mundell

Augmented libraries: preparing public libraries for virtual & augmented reality

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 8
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Scott Mundell
  • Library Technician
  • Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries
Steven Mundell
  • Team Leader Digital and Community Learning
  • Yarra Libraries

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Consumer-ready virtual reality technology has developed rapidly since its launch in 2016. With recent milestone advancements in all-in-one virtual reality headsets and exponential consumer adoption, it is the perfect time to re-evaluate the appropriateness of this technology to meet the strategic needs of Victorian public libraries. Through our project for the 2018 Margery C Ramsay scholarship we travelled to California and Nevada to research state-wide initiatives that introduced virtual reality to over 100 public libraries. This paper details the background of our project, findings and proposes what the next phase of VR in public libraries could look like.

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VALA2020 Session 6 Reeler

Cultural heritage in the cloud – using knowledge management systems for digital data

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 6
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 3:20 – 3:50

Clair Reeler
  • Business Analyst
  • Catalyst IT Australia
  • University of Sydney

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The disruptive influence of digital information management for cultural heritage has been expressed in many spheres, especially in the realm of information sharing and data collection volumes. Although these disruptions have had enormous advantages for enhancing research, curation and accountability; they have been accompanied by associated challenges for storage, usability and appropriate access. This paper examines some of the ways in which different organisations within Australia and around the world are currently approaching these challenges and investigates the Heurist knowledge management system as a cloud-based tool for the management of all aspects of cultural heritage data.

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VALA2020 Session 5 Seymour

Using technology to enable 24 hour access to print collections

This session is sponsored by Ex Libris

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 5
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 2:45 – 3:15

Karen Seymour
  • Manager Resource Delivery and Physical Collections
  • University of Queensland Library
Robert Bowen
  • Senior Systems Engineer
  • University of Queensland Library

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This paper outlines how the University of Queensland Library utilised RFID technology to enable 24×7 access to print collections. The methodology adopted for a trial is discussed, along with the technology used, stakeholder concerns and communication, outcomes and findings. The RFID technology used to safeguard and borrow the collection during staffed hours can also be utilised to make the collection accessible during non-staffed hours. UQ Library supported its strategic objectives, listened and responded to student feedback and was innovative and brave. Visits and borrowing during non-staffed hours demonstrated this initiative is convenient and useful for the Library’s clients.

 

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VALA2020 Session 16 Danaee

Finding new ways to illustrate the library story: data visualisation as a way of demonstrating impact

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 16
Thursday 13 February 2020, 2:55 – 3:25

Kathleen Smeaton
  • Associate Director, Digital Scholars Hub
  • The University of Queensland
Dana Danaee
  • Media Designer, Digital Scholars Hub
  • The University of Queensland

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Libraries collect vast amounts of data; from statistics about user interactions with resources and hits on webpages, to repositories that store research outputs. While libraries have started to facilitate different ways of interacting with their collections, such as real time visualisation of catalogue searching, ways of presenting the data libraries collect are largely unexplored. Demonstrating impact is a critical issue for academic libraries, as the ways these libraries influence our users’ learning, teaching and research are often difficult to measure. This paper explores how visualising the Library’s data in new ways can be a starting point for conversations about what the Library does and the impact that it has on users.

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VALA2020 Session 16 Graham

Can librarians help researchers to form more impactful research teams using co-authorship network analysis?

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 16
Thursday 13 February 2020, 2:20 – 2:50

Phillippa Bourke
  • Academic Liaison Librarian
  • University of Sydney Library
Sarah Graham
  • Manager Academic Services: Science and Engineering
  • University of Sydney Library

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The University of Sydney Library has undertaken a project to visualise co-authorship networks to enable faculties and researchers to review the impact and effectiveness of research team structures. Co-authorship networks are useful for indicating the presence or absence of collaboration across disciplines and can be visualised using open source software (Gephi). This paper explores co-authorship analysis as a potential future academic library service that enables partnership with faculties looking for evidence for decision-making about how to group researchers. It also outlines the staff development benefits of library staff undertaking projects that explore open source tools and reuse of datasets.

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VALA2020 Session 15 Barnett

Discovery strategy for digital content at Auckland Libraries

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 15
Thursday 13 February 2020, 1:45 – 2:15

Timothy Barnett

  • Auckland Libraries

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Auckland Libraries is the largest public library system in Australia and New Zealand, with 55 branches and four regional research centres. The challenge was to merge all the regional archival collections into one unified collection, with a single collection management system, then combine this with all in-house research databases to create a single search across all of the Auckland Libraries heritage and research resources. The result: Kura Heritage Collections Online. This paper is a progress report on how Auckland Libraries has been working towards achieving the goal of putting the Auckland Libraries heritage and research collections “in every pocket” by 2023.

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VALA2020 Session 14 King

Library Carpentry – translating research infrastructure

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 14
Thursday 13 February 2020, 2:20 – 2:50

Sara King
  • eReseach Analyst
  • AARNet
Ingrid Mason
  • formerly Deployment Stategist
  • AARNet
Frankie Stevens
  • Research Engagement Strategist
  • AARNet

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Through collaboration with research support community partners, ustralia’s Academic Research Network provider (AARNet) is contributing to the ‘digital dexterity’ of the university library and wider research sector through creating an ‘infrastructure literacy’ training framework. AARNet aims for this framework to be adopted by the Library Carpentry community and implemented in the spirit of breaking down barriers and building capability in eResearch across all domains.

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VALA2020 Session 13 Earl

From access to preservation: a journey through space and time

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 13
Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Betsy Earl
  • Senior Specialist, Library Systems and Digital Preservation, State Library Victoria
Bridie Flynn
  • Senior Librarian, Collection Curation & Engagement, State Library Victoria
Afsana Khan
  • Specialist, Library Systems, State Library Victoria

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This paper discusses the journey taken by State Library Victoria during a project to upgrade from a digital object management system to a digital object preservation system, with a particular focus on the theory and practical aspects of object and metadata migration.

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