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VALA2010 Plenary 1 Calhoun
The emergent library: new lands, new eyes
VALA 2010 PLENARY 1: Karen Calhoun
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 09:05 - 10:15
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Karen Calhoun
Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, USA
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Marcel Proust wrote "The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." This presentation explores how this quote--with its emphasis on looking creatively at what we already have--applies to libraries and librarians today. Over the last two decades libraries joined thousands of other organizations in a massive rush to claim "new lands" in cyberspace. Yet at the end of the first decade of the new century, libraries may have cyber turf but insufficient cyber attention. Many end users persistently see libraries through the last century's eyes—to them, libraries are mainly about books and buildings. Before students, scholars and citizens can see libraries differently, we ourselves need to see with new eyes. In support of the many conference presentations that follow her address, Ms. Calhoun will introduce the notion of the "emergent library"--attracting more attention for library analog, licensed, and digital collections ; moving to cloud-based services; effectively deploying physical and virtual space; and playing a stronger role in the support of scholarly communications, especially through repositories.
VALA2000 Session 1 Pearce
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The challenge of integrated access: the hybrid library system of the future.VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Hybrid Libraries Judith PearceDirector, Web Services, National Library of Australia Warwick CathroAssistant Directory General, Information Technology Division, National Library of Australia Tony BostonDirector, Digital Services Project, National Library of Australiahttp://www.nla.gov.au |
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In this paper we discuss the role of the OPAC as a hybrid library service and of the catalogue server as a provider element in a hybrid information environment. We identify developments required in the search and retrieval capabilities of the catalogue server to operate effectively in such an environment. We look under the hybrid library bonnet at the functions and metadata needed for management of online and physical collections. Lastly, we look at the architecture needing to be supported by library systems for storage and delivery of digital collections in a hybrid information environment.
VALA2010 Session 7 Hagon
Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond
VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 7 - Innovation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 - 14:50
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Paul Hagon
Senior Web Designer, National Library of Australia
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Is it enough to rely on human interpretation for cataloguing our collections, or like James Bond, will we require high tech gadgets to get the job done? Image searches now analyse the pixel-by-pixel colour values of an image, allowing searching by colour. Consumer-grade photo management software incorporates facial recognition, allowing us to identify individuals. When researching, will we be querying the content to get the metadata or will we still be relying on querying the metadata to deliver the content? Will these technologies filter down into the way we catalogue items within our collections, or will this be a layer that enhances our traditional cataloguing methodologies or provides an additional service for our users?
VALA2006 Session 9 Sokvitne
Rediscovering metadata: an outcomes-oriented approach
VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Metadata
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:00 - 14:30
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Lloyd Sokvitne
Senior Manager (Digital Strategies), State Library of Tasmania
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VALA2004 Plenary 4 Jianzhong
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Developing a Borderless Hybrid Library: Shanghai ExperienceVALA 2004 PLENARY 4: Wu Jianzhong Wu JianzhongDirector, Shanghai Library, China |
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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.
VALA2000 Session 11 Campbell
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Australian subject gateways - metadata as an agent of changeVALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Metadata Debbie Campbell
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Although the concept of a subject gateway has only risen to prominence in Australia during the last two years, several university library consortia and other education- based initiatives, including EdNA Online and the Australian Digital Theses Project, have already been successful in achieving collaborative approaches for the delivery of national access to electronic resources. The critical success factors realised, including the deployment of metadata and the community approaches to problem solving, mean that Australia is positioned to participate in new initiatives exploring service provision in a national infrastructure for integrated research and information access.
VALA2000 Session 11 Talmacs
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Metadata in the University EnvironmentVALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Metadata Kerrie Talmacs
Metadata Co-ordinator, University of New South Wales Library |
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Universities need to consider metadata as a means of managing and providing access to information resources. A considerable commitment is required to assess standards; train staff and utilise metadata appropriately. The University of New South Wales Library has made a start and has embedded metadata in Library Web pages, created metadata for subject gateways – MetaChem and AVEL, and is generating metadata for the Australian Digital Theses Project.
VALA2000 Session 11 Sokvitne
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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Current Dublin Core Metadata for RetrievalVALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Metadata Lloyd Sokvitne
Manager (Information Systems Development) State Library of Tasmania |
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Presents the results of a study into the effectiveness of Dublin Core metadata for retrieval. The metadata from twenty Australian government and educational organisations was analysed. The metadata was assessed for its capacity to facilitate title, creator/publisher, and subject access. From the results, it emerged that title metadata added little value, that creator/publisher access was flawed by inconsistent name formats, and that the subject terms used were too broad to produce increased precision and decreased recall. Specific suggestions are made as to how metadata creation in these three areas can be improved, and the relationship of Dublin Core to information foraging theory is explored.
VALA2004 Session 12 Stumm
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Collection-level description: separating the woods from the treesVALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Access to Information Deborah StummManager, Digital Library Strategy, State Library of New South Wales Susanne MoirCoordinator, Bibliographic Access, State Library of New South Wales Meredith LawnArchivist, Original Materials Branch, State Library of New South Wales |
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This paper describes a project at the State Library of NSW to develop structured machine- readable collection descriptions to provide online access to our collection strengths.
VALA2004 Session 12 Groenewegen
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Designing a Digital Databases PageVALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Access to Information David GroenewegenDigital Resources Librarian, Monash University Library Simon HuggardSystems Manager, Monash University Library |
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During 2003 Monash University Library engaged in a major redesign of the library databases web site. The basis of this was a program which used MARC records from Monash’s Endeavour Voyager catalogue to generate online electronic journal subject lists. The new databases page was intended to make for easier updating, and to allow us to respond to known user issues. In theory this was straightforward. In practice a number of issues were raised. The paper looks at how Monash resolved these issues, while commenting on the relationship between metadata and technology. Some future directions will also be discussed.