Travel Scholar 2014

 

Travel Scholar

The VALA Travel Scholarship for 2014 is awarded to Ingrid Mason.

Ingrid Mason is a self-professed metadata nerd and technologist, who has found a work-space that satisfies her interests in culture, the humanities, semantics and the web.

Ingrid Mason

Ingrid has interests in: data, technology and research. She works as an eResearch Analyst for Intersect Australia and as a Data Specialist for the Australian National Data Service.

She has a background in digital cultural heritage (digital collection and preservation) and enabling discovery and interoperability across galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (the GLAM sector) – and – in providing eResearch support services for humanities, arts and social sciences including research data management and software development.

Ingrid will be travelling internationally in order to look at libraries …

She will travel to the United States, France, Belgium, Finland, and England and aims to visit the following organisations to find out about the following projects, platforms and initiatives creating, working with and publishing linked open data.

    • Stanford University Library (Linked Data 4 Libraries)
    • New York Public Library Labs (platform and data services)
    • Digital Public Library of America (platform and data services)
    • Bibliothèque Nationale de France (data.bnf.fr data service)
    • Europeana (data.europeana.eu data service)
    • National Library of Finland (FINTO data service)
    • British Library (bnb.data.bl.uk data service)

We look forward to hearing the results of Ingrid’s research at the VALA2016 conference.

Congratulations, Ingrid!

VALA2014 Session 6 Cheetham

USB: Ubiquitous Superfast Broadband, the promises and perils for Australian libraries

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Near Futures
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 14:05 – 14:35
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2014-proceedings/vala2014-session-6-cheetham

Warren Cheetham

CityLibraries Townsville, QLD

(VALA Travel Scholar)

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VALA Peer Reviewed
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Abstract

The building of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) will provide for increasingly faster internet speeds and ubiquitous internet access, which will allow people to access and share information in new ways. Health, education, business, entertainment and teleworking are areas set to benefit from the NBN. How do libraries fit into this changing information ecosystem? As the internet capacity of some members of the community increases, the risk of the digital divide growing also increases. Are libraries prepared to assist more people with the profound digital changes over the next decade as the NBN rolls out around Australia? This paper reports on the 2012 VALA Travel Scholarship, which involved visits to sites in the United States of America to investigate libraries’ use of superfast broadband.

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Travel Scholar 2012

 

The VALA Travel Scholarship for 2012 is awarded to Warren Cheetham from City Libraries Townsville.

Travel ScholarWarren will be travelling to Canada and the United States in order to investigate existing and planned projects where fibre-broadband rollouts affect libraries, whether positively or negatively. He will identify and report on current best practice and make recommendations as to where Australian libraries might contribute to the global conversation about libraries and fibre-broadband applications.

We look forward to hearing the results of Warren’s research at the VALA2014 conference.

Congratulations, Warren!

VALA2010 Session 13 Stephens

VALA20120The impact and benefits of Learning 2.0 programs in Australian libraries

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 13 – Web/Library 2.0
Thursday 11 February 2010 11:05 – 11:35
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-13-stephens

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperMichael Stephens

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, USA
http://www.dom.edu

Richard Sayers

Director, Capability Development, CAVAL Ltd
http://www.caval.edu.au

Warren Cheetham

Coordinator Information & Digital Services, CityLibraries Townsville
http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au

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Abstract

This paper outlines the development and research methodology of the CAVAL 2009 Visiting Scholar Research Project, Measuring the Value and Effect of Learning 2.0 Programs in Libraries. Created to include all staff in a learning activity and offered to all via a Creative Commons license, some LIS practitioners have lauded Learning 2.0 programs as a successful way to engage staff. Replicated more than 500 times across the globe in various types of libraries and over 30 times in Australia alone, this project explores the true impact of the program on Australian libraries.