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VALA2020 Session 7 Ruddy

Extending the library’s reach and creating work ready graduates: the Library’s role in developing and delivering a digital literacy stack of micro-credentials at RMIT University

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 7
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:50 – 11:20

Christine Ruddy
  • Teaching and Research Librarian
  • RMIT University
Joanna Gillespie
  • Liaison Librarian
  • RMIT University
Frank Ponte
  • Manager Library Services (Teaching)
  • RMIT University

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Micro-credentials created and delivered at RMIT University are aligned to competencies that prepare graduates for work and life. Digital Literacy has been identified as one of several transferable skills required for a changing world of work. RMIT University Library, in collaboration with the central RMIT Creds team and a designated learning designer, has been involved in the development and delivery of a formal suite of ten digital literacy micro-credentials. With expertise in navigating, accessing, utilising and evaluating digital information and associated tools, the Library is providing leadership and support in an area already disrupting conventional modes of training and instruction.

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VALA2020 Plenary 4 Leachman

Collections, catalogues and connections: My engagement escapade

VALA2020 PLENARY SESSION 4
Wednesday 12  February 2020, 4:20 – 5:30

Siobhan Leachman
  • Wikimedia, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Smithsonian Institution
  • Volunteer & citizen scientist

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I want to tell the story of my digital adventures. My journey from analogue to digital, from consumer to re-user, from passive absorber to empowered co-creator of knowledge. How my life has been enriched by the existence of, as well as my interaction and engagement with, digital collections of galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs). I want to detail my motivations for undertaking the work I do. To emphasise that for me, digital is not so much about access but is much more about reuse.

I intend to highlight how important people are in the digital world that we inhabit. How easy it is for individuals to have an impact. Not only on connections, catalogues and collections but on the lives of people who engage with digital content. How the GLAM community has enriched my life. I will traverse through the triumphs as well as the trials and tribulations of knowledge creation and connection. To show how anyone with a passion can help improve access to knowledge, can curate content, can facilitate reuse of digital data, and can join the effort to connect everything.

Biography

Siobhan Leachman volunteers for a plethora of GLAM, digital humanities and citizen science projects. Her mission in life is to connect everything. She advocates for open access, open Creative Commons copyright licenses, and defends the public domain. Siobhan is currently obsessed with crowdsourcing, citizen science, various Wikimedia projects, citation data, New Zealand endemic moths, women scientific illustrators, name authority data, iNaturalist and Charles Heaphy artworks. These obsessions change at her whim. In 2019 she was awarded the Auckland War Memorial Museum Medal and is a Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

 

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VALA2020 Session 5 Tyson

Opening the EZproxy Logs: how are patrons accessing electronic resources?

This session is sponsored by Ex Libris

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 5
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 3:20 – 3:50

A.F. Tyson

  • Subject Librarian
  • University of Canterbury

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This study demonstrates how libraries can quantify resource usage to gain insight into patrons’ resource discovery behaviour. EZproxy server logs were analysed to understand which resource discovery tools library patrons were using to access electronic resources, and investigate whether there were any disciplinary differences in choice of resource discovery tool. The library’s web-scale discovery tool, Summon, was the most commonly-used resource discovery tool, but significant differences in resource discovery tool usage were found between humanities/social science disciplines and STEM/Business disciplines.

 

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VALA2020 Session 3 Greenhill

Kindness and UX in GLAMR online presence: same, same but different?

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Kathryn Greenhill
  • Western Australia

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Kindness, and its benefit to community and individuals, is a growing area of research and civic interest. This paper explores possible relationships between kindness and User Experience (UX), particularly within the online presence of publicly-funded Gallery, Library, Archives, Museums and Records (GLAMR) institutions. Library literature uses the term “kindness audit” to describe what are essentially UX studies within library buildings. This paper examines congruences and differences between UX and kindness, before extending the original idea of the kindness audit by suggesting four possible focus points, beyond UX, for a kindness audit of GLAMR online presence.

 

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VALA2020 Session 2 Lemon

Introducing NED: Hercules to the Hydra of electronic legal deposit systems

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Barbara Lemon
  • Executive Officer
  • National and State Libraries Australia
Elizabeth MacKenzie
  • NED Support Officer and NSLA eResources Consortium Manager
  • National Library of Australia

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This paper provides an introduction to the National edeposit service (NED), launched in August 2019 as a world-first collaboration between the national, state and territory libraries of Australia. As a national online service for depositing, preserving and accessing Australian electronic publications, with benefits to publishers, libraries and the public alike, NED has transformed our approach to legal deposit in Australia.

 

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VALA2020 Session 1 Coates

Who needs an archival management system anyway? New approaches to the description and discovery of archival collections

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Serena Coates
  • Coordinator, Digital Preservation
  • State Library of Queensland
Karen Stone
  • Lead, Metadata Services
  • State Library of Queensland

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The State Library of Queensland recently embarked on a project to improve the process for describing its archival collections and the presentation of its online finding aids. Existing options for archival description were investigated, and it was decided to ‘go it alone’ with a bespoke system powered by Drupal. This paper outlines the processes followed during the project, detailing the challenges, solutions, lessons learned, and next steps.

 

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VALA2020 Session 3 Organ

Really real and virtually real: celebrating the works of Bert Flugelman

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Michael Organ
  • Manager Repository Services
  • University of Wollongong
Grant White
  • Manager University Archives
  • University of Wollongong
Karen Illesca
  • Communication & Events Co-ordinator, Library
  • University of Wollongong
Nathan Riggir
  • Maker/MediaSpace Co-ordinator, Library
  • University of Wollongong
Phillippa Webb
  • Exhibitions Curator, Library
  • University of Wollongong

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The University of Wollongong Library’s Wry ARTificer exhibition, featuring the work of Bert Flugelman, blended physical and virtual environments as a practical showcase of the organisation’s digital capabilities. A range of technologies were utilised, including the Microsoft Hololens augmented reality platform and 3D digitisation and modelling techniques. The exhibition stimulated collaboration between diverse communities of practice, including curators, archivists, learning technologists, software developers and librarians, to deliver an exciting and innovative interpretation of Flugelman’s life and work.

 

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VALA2020 Session 2 Johnson

Conversation-led Library Services: delivering the Library to students in the age of digital Assistants

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Danielle Johnson
  • Manager Digital Experience
  • Deakin University Library
Steve White
  • Digital Solutions Manager
  • Deakin University

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DeakinGenie (“Genie”) is a smartphone-based digital assistant designed to provide personalised information and resources to guide undergraduate students through their study and life at Deakin via a voice/text controlled app. It uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, integrations, development expertise and a program of content management to deliver point-of-need information to students via their mobile devices. It was launched to the Deakin University undergraduate student population in July 2018. This paper discusses the delivery of Deakin University Library services in Genie, including the pathways taken to ensure successful delivery of library services through the conversation-led approach.

 

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VALA2020 Session 1 Kearney

The Biodiversity Heritage Library and the evolution of uber-discoverability

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Nicole Kearney
  • Manager Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia
  • Museums Victoria

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2020 marks the 10-year anniversary of Australia’s partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a world-wide consortium of libraries digitising their biodiversity literature and making it openly accessible online. This paper celebrates this milestone by detailing the major accessibility and discoverability advances that have been achieved over the past decade, in the context of the Australian branch of the project, and will discuss the BHL’s ongoing evolution from being “just” the world’s largest online repository of biodiversity literature to becoming a fully searchable, persistently linkable source of big data, and thus an uber-discoverable online library.

 

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VALA2020 Plenary 6 Walker

Be the Goose: On Barriers, Roadblocks and Finding Your Way in Library and Information Science

VALA2020 PLENARY SESSION 6
Thursday 13 February 2020, 4:00 – 5:10

Cecily Walker
  • Librarian
  • Social justice advocate

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People who live at the intersection of many different identities can sometimes experience barriers to success while working in libraries. While much of the literature acknowledges the existence of the physical, systemic, and personal barriers that can cause a marginalized person to believe that they are a poor fit for their organization, the demographic makeup of the profession ensures that marginalized people will find it difficult to find allies, mentors or advocates who share or are sympathetic to their unique challenges.

What’s a person to do when all she sees around her are people who don’t look like her or who don’t experience life the way she does? Cecily Walker will discuss some of the barriers she and other multiply marginalized librarians have experienced as they move through the profession, and she will share how she found an unlikely role model thanks to a video game about a little white goose.

Biography

Cecily Walker is a passionate librarian with 15 years experience in the profession. Currently based in Vancouver, her unique professional journey spans user experience, community digital projects, digital collections, and the intersection of social justice, technology and public librarianship. It was her frustration with the way that software was designed to meet the needs of highly technical users rather than the general public that led her to user experience, but it was her love of information, intellectual freedom, and commitment to social justice that led her back to librarianship. VALA represents Cecily’s first trip to Australia, but she hopes it won’t be her last.

 

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