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VALA2004 Session 5 Murray

Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2004-proceedings/vala2004-session-5-murray

The Internet Myth – Emerging Trends in Reference Enquiries

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Virtual Reference
Tuesday 3 February 2004, 14:00 – 14:30

Dr. Janet Murray

Director, Murray Consulting and Training Pty. Ltd

Cindy Tschernitz

Director, Tell Me Now
http://www.tellmenow.com.au

VALA2004
VALA Peer Reviewed Paper

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This paper examines the impact of greater access to electronic information, both free and fee-based, on reference enquiries. The research methodology included an extensive literature review and interviews with reference services librarians in both Australia and overseas. The assumption that greater Internet access and use equals a decline in public and state library reference enquiries is not proven. The paper concludes with a summary of trends, predictions and scenarios of usage of state and public library reference services in an increasingly electronic age, paying special attention and emphasis to the Australian environment.

VALA2010 Plenary 6 Wark

VALA20120The Networked Book

VALA 2010 PLENARY 6: Mckenzie Wark
Thursday 11 February 2010 15:55 – 17:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-6-wark

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerMckenzie Wark

Associate Professor of Media Studies, Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research, New York, USA
http://www.newschool.edu and http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark

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In 2007 I collaborated with the Institute for the Book on a ‘networked book’ version of Gamer Theory, which was later published in the old dead tree format by Harvard University Press. That experience led all of us on a merry chase after solutions to many problems, some technical, some economic, some cultural. In this presentation I will sum up that experience and try to draw some lessons from it for future experiments that lie at the intersection of publishing, librarianship and writing, at a time when the boundaries between these professions are interestingly fluid.

 

VALA2010 Plenary 5 Rainie

VALA20120Networked creators: how users of social media have changed the ecology of information and created new roles for librarians to play in people’s lives

VALA 2010 PLENARY 5: Lee Rainie
Thursday 11 February 2010 08:45 – 09:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-5-rainie

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerLee Rainie

Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, USA
http://www.pewinternet.org

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The rise of bloggers, social networkers, Twitterers, and other social media participants has created an explosion of information and new forms of cultural contributions. As assessors and curators of media – old and new – librarians are especially confronted by the new challenges these changes march through their communities. This paper will document the changes, discuss the new kinds of communities that social media users create, and point out several fresh roles that librarians can play in serving people in the new information ecology.

VALA2010 Session 10 Bonnington

VALA20120The changing landscape of research: tools and methods for 21st century discovery

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 10 – Looking Forward
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-10-bonnington

VALA2010 Invited PaperPaul Bonnington

Director, e-Research Centre, Monash University
http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/index.html

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The US National Science Foundation noted in recent reports on 21st Century Discovery and Virtual Research Organisations that increasingly researchers (from all domains) are working in virtual teams across institutions. Furthermore, they are creating, compiling, accessing, analysing, linking and storing terabytes of digital research data through joint experimentation, observation and simulation. They note that the dynamic linking of data generated through this joint observation and simulation is enabling the development of new research methods that adapt intelligently to evolving conditions to reveal new understanding. In this talk, we highlight this phenomenon in the Australian context, and demonstrate how technologists, information specialists and domain specialists can work together in partnership to create local services and infrastructure to support 21st century discovery.

VALA2010 Plenary 3 Breeding

VALA20120Blending evolution with revolution: a new cycle of library automation spins on.

VALA 2010 PLENARY 3: Marshall Breeding
Wednesday 10 February 2010, 08:45 – 09:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-3-breeding

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerMarshall Breeding

Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University Libraries, Nashville, USA
http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding and http://www.librarytechnology.org

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Based on his ongoing research and analysis of the product, technology, and business trends of the library automation industry, Marshall Breeding will give his perspective on the current state of the field and what libraries can expect over the next few years. While some companies will continue a stable and evolutionary path, others articulate more dramatic changes in their strategies. Open source ILS options have already repainted the landscape, with new community source projects underway that promise additional change. The industry drives forward on two fronts, one focusing on automating internal library processes and the other providing new ways for users to discovery and access library collections. Major tech trends such as the rapid rise in smart mobile devices, the shift from local computing to platform-as-a-service cloud computing bring new mandates of change that demand new directions of innovation. These cycles all turn within an economic climate that presents great challenges in the levels of resources that libraries can bring to the table.

VALA2010 Plenary 2 Tague

VALA20120Next up? The linked content economy

VALA 2010 PLENARY 2: Thomas Tague
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 16:20 – 17:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-2-tague

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerThomas (Tom) Tague

Thomson Reuters Calais Initiative Lead, USA
http://www.opencalais.com

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OpenCalais Initiative lead Tom Tague will share insights on today’s rapidly evolving digital information landscape and the growing ecosystem of open data assets in the Linked Data Cloud. He will also share lessons learned and emerging best practices in digital content curation based on more than two years spent meeting with publishers, content curators and entrepreneurs in the ‘Web 3.0’ space.

VALA2010 Plenary 1 Calhoun

VALA20120The emergent library: new lands, new eyes

VALA 2010 PLENARY 1: Karen Calhoun
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 09:05 – 10:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-1-calhoun

Karen Calhoun

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerVice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, USA
http://www.oclc.org

 

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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.

VALA2006 Plenary 6 Chachra

VALA2006 Keynote SpeakerThe role of the library as an extension of the mind

Vinod Chachra

VALA 2008 PLENARY 6: Vinod Chachra
Friday 10 February 2006, 15:40 – 17:00
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-plenary-6-chachra

Vinod Chachra

Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc, USA
http://www.vtls.com

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The publishing and self-publishing of born digital materials are already creating an “information deluge.” Additionally, mass digitization projects like the Million Book Project, the Google Library Project and the Open Content Alliance hold the promise of making vast amounts of additional content available to users. Already the available information exceeds our ability to organize and use it. How will the libraries of tomorrow cope with this? To answer this we need to start with information systems.