VALA2004 Proceedings

VALA2004, the 12th VALA Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 3 – 5 February 2004. The theme of the conference was Breaking Boundaries: Integration & Interoperability.

The following programme was presented at VALA2004. See also the archived VALA2004 conference web site.

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VALA2004 Session 7 Cunningham

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Global and local dimensions of emerging community languages support

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Software Issues
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 14:35 – 15:05

Andrew Cunningham

e-Diversity and Content Infrastructure Solutions, Public Libraries Unit, Vicnet, State Library of Victoria
http://www.vicenet.net.au

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The changing immigration patterns and increasing number of migrants from Africa provide public libraries with new challenges for providing equitable library services to their communities. Current trends in the development and provision of electronic multicultural library services indicates the need for public libraries to engage with their local culturally and linguistically diverse communities and cooperatively develop solutions to resourcing and service delivery problems. The development of solutions for African communities involves the exchange of information, resources and knowledge between libraries and other service providers. The paper suggests that future electronic multicultural library services projects need to develop multilingual content infrastructure solutions to assist in ethnic community web publishing.

VALA2004 Session 7 Jilovsky

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Unicode: a tool for system interoperability and human communication

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Software Issues
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 15:10 – 15:40

Cathie Jilovsky

Information Services Manager, CAVAL Collaborative Solutions
http://www.caval.edu.au

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This paper describes the development of the Unicode standard, how it is being used by computer systems generally and by the library community in particular. The complexities of implementing a system which supports a multi-language environment are explored, using the implementation of the Ex Libris Aleph 500 library system at CAVAL Collaborative Solutions as a case study. CAVAL provides cataloguing services to customers in over fifty languages, so that the ability to handle Unicode was a key criterion in the selection of the system. Unicode is complex to implement but is becoming an essential component for library systems.

VALA2004 Session 8 Tucker

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Integration of information literacy training into engineering and technology education

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Information Literacy
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 14:00 – 14:30

Barry Tucker

Faculty of Science and Technology Librarian, Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/library

Stuart Palmer

Senior Lecturer in Technology Management, School of Engineering and Technology, Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au

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Information literacy has become an important skill for undergraduate students due to societal changes that have seen information become a valuable commodity, the need for graduates to become lifelong learners, and the recognition that information literacy is an underpinning generic skill for effective learning in higher education. This paper describes a sequence of purposefully designed activities to help students learn and practice information literacy skills that were integrated into a first-year engineering and technology study unit as a core element of the unit syllabus. A formal evaluation of these activities was planned and undertaken in semester 1 2003.

VALA2004 Session 8 Wright

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Blithwapping or Number 8 wiring your library learning system

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Information Literacy
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 14:35 – 15:05

Andrew Wright

Electronic Access and Information Services Manager, National Information Library Service
http://www.nils.org.au
NOTE: The National Information Library Service (formerly Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind & Vision Australia Library) is now the Vision Australia Library. See http://www.visionaustralia.org.au

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How do librarians thrive and flourish in an era when the Virtual Learning Environment is gathering momentum, when digital resources are becoming more widespread and often less centralized? How do librarians remain important when the electronic matrix and the wider organisation is creating uncatalogued and unregistered information? This is a purposely- provocative paper that questions the way librarians conceive of, and use the resources they have available. The author asks that we as librarians rethink traditional design methods for information literacy and other programmes in the Virtual Learning Environment, to make fuller use of the available resource. The Author asks that we as librarians go beyond standard resource management and standard perceptions of the library and role of the librarian.

VALA2004 Session 8 Mare

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Know it All! online – is it possible?

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Information Literacy
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 15:10 – 15:40

Angela Mare

Branch Manager, Waverley Campus Information Commons, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
http://www.holmesglen.edu.au

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Holmesglen TAFE has developed an online Information Literacy tutorial in collaboration with the E-learning Unit. The paper explores the challenges faced as librarians worked with multimedia experts and the attempts to reconcile the expectations and aims of the two groups. Understanding the new pedagogy and tools required to successfully produce a dynamic tutorial, that gives similar depth to face-to-face tutorials, that content was comprehensive to cover Information Literacy standards, language appropriate for the target audience and information generic enough to deal with a variety of databases and interface also created challenges for the librarians. The result is Know it All!

VALA2004 Session 9 Klippel

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Sirius – essential navigational aide in a complex information environment

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Portals
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 14:00 – 14:30

Ken Klippel

Web Services Manager, Online Services Department, UNSW Library
http://www.library.unsw.edu.au

Tony Cargnelutti

Manager, Online Services Department, UNSW Library
http://www.library.unsw.edu.au

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In July 2001 UNSW Library went to tender for new library systems. UNSW Library was looking for not just a traditional Integrated Library Management System, but a set of systems and tools that would enable the Library to best meet the needs and requirements it saw critical for the rapidly changing scholarly information environment of the 21st century. Sirius is the name given to this new tool, the ExLibris Metalib and SFX applications. This paper describes the philosophy, aims and implementation issues behind what the Library sees as the key tool/system in providing seamless integrated access to print and digital resources within a resource discovery and portal environment.

VALA2004 Session 9 Moloney

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A portal for the people: National Library & your local public library = new access paradigm

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Portals
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 14:35 – 15:05

Kylie Moloney

Kinetica Customer Services, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Roxanne Missingham

Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Christine MacKenzie

CEO, Yarra Plenty Regional Library
http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au

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VALA2004 Session 9 Moloney Paper 265.31 KB

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Australians are avid seekers and consumers of information in a great variety of forms. The National Library is working with five public libraries to better understand the information resource needs of Australians. Information Australia is a twelve-month pilot providing a more integrated approach to information via a web portal for Australians. This paper outlines the development of the pilot portal, including policy and technical issues and future possibilities for a service available to all Australian libraries.

VALA2004 Session 9 Burke

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Implementing AARLIN at La Trobe University with a focus on end user reception

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Portals
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 15:10 – 15:40

Liz Burke

Reference & Information Services Librarian, La Trobe University Library
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au

Eva Fisch

Reference Librarian, La Trobe University Library
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au

Linda Sheridan

Acting Campus Librarian, La Trobe University Library, Albury-Wodonga Campus
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au

Kristine Valenta

Reference Librarian, La Trobe University Library
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au

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This paper describes the implementation of AARLIN, the Australian Academic Research Library Network, at La Trobe University with a focus on end user training and acceptance. The authors will also describe the impact on library staff of introducing a totally new library service.

VALA2004 Plenary 4 Jianzhong

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Developing a Borderless Hybrid Library: Shanghai Experience

VALA 2004 PLENARY 4: Wu Jianzhong
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 16:10 – 17:25

Wu Jianzhong

Director, Shanghai Library, China
http://www.library.sh.cn

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Since the new building opened in 1996, the Shanghai Library has strived to create a borderless hybrid library. Taking advantage of the consolidation of the Shanghai Library and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai (ISTIS), the new institution has developed a knowledge service system in an all-round way for the general public, for the research and business community, and for the policy-makers and legislators, and also a digital library system to integrate all the conventional and electronic resources and to extend the hybrid services to all the libraries in Shanghai. The presentation will focus on the library’s innovative, integrative and interactive hybrid services as well as some technical development including Chinese metadata and cataloguing programs.

VALA2004 Session 10 Maquignaz

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The Centrality of the Integrated Library Management System: a Strategic View of Information Management in an E-Service Environment

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Extending the ILMS
Thursday 5 February 2004, 10:45 – 11:15

Laura Maquignaz

Manager, Library Information Resources Management, Victoria University
http://library.vu.edu.au

Jane Miller

Network Information Services Librarian, Victoria University
http://library.vu.edu.au

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This paper investigates the impact of the changing information environment on the expectations of academic libraries in terms of the functionality of their Integrated Library Management System (ILMS). This research finds that libraries still strategically rely on their ILMS for their services and are adding functionality from their system vendors as it becomes available. “Add-on” systems (non ILMS) are being used to cater for the requirements of digital data but at this stage do not dominate. The partnership between academic libraries and their ILMS vendors seems strong – as long as these vendors can continue to add the required functionality.