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VALA2004 Session 11 Genoni
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Virtual symposia: an investigation into scholarly communities onlineVALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: User Behaviour Dr Paul GenoniLecturer, Dept of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology Dr Helen MerrickLecturer, Dept of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology Dr Michele WillsonLecturer, Dept of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology |   |
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VALA2004 Session 11 Genoni Paper 62.96 KB
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This paper reports on the pilot study for a survey regarding the use of the Internet by academic staff at Curtin University of Technology for the purposes of informal scholarly communication. The survey included questions regarding the respondents’ current and evolving research practices and their use of various services provided by the University Library. The paper reports on the relevant data, and suggests ways in which this might reflect on library services, in particular the development of institutional repositories as a means of supporting the emerging types of scholarly community.
VALA2004 Session 11 Feighan
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Understanding the drivers of online data usage: an empirical analysisVALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: User Behaviour David FeighanISP Manager, VICNET, State Library of Victoria | |
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VALA2004 Session 11 Feighan Paper 489.11 KB
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This paper investigates what drives online data use in 60 public library and council sites across Victoria. The results suggest that simple measures, such as hours of opening and the number of terminals, are not sufficient to account for the variations in use across the sample sites. The results also suggest these simple measures do not provide adequate data for operational and policy planning. By analysing the Internet data used over twelve months, and through case studies analysis, this paper explores what drives Internet data usage and how libraries can take greater control of their data requirements and costs.
VALA2004 Session 11 Thomsett Scott
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Turning Students On To Your Library’s Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library’s siteVALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: User Behaviour Beth Thomsett-ScottScience Librarian, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (USA). | |
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VALA2004 Session 11 Thomsett Scott Paper 30.92 KB
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This paper will introduce the concept of web site usability, provide a brief introduction to the techniques and offer examples from two “real life” studies that show how the techniques of formal usability studies, focus groups, and card sorts can be used and offer tips and tricks for employing these techniques.
VALA2008 Session 13 Kurvink
A new paradigm for reference librarians in the online world: developing relationship around research and learning with library users
VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Virtual Reference
Thursday 7 February 2008 11:20 – 11:50
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Wilma Kurvink
College Head of Library and Information Services, Wesley College, Melbourne
http://www.wesleycollege.net
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VALA2008 Session 13 Kurvink Paper 158.16 KB
VALA2008 Session 13 Kurvink Podcast 12 MB
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This paper examines the dilemmas around personal information retrieval and the role of the reference librarian in the era of readily available information sources. Research by Bilal and Kuhlthau informs the paradigm of information retrieval for learning. The paper proposes that users of online information, particularly students of all ages, create a new dimension of information use, where the librarian, as guide and intermediary, needs to assume a greater role. In an environment of increasing personalisation of information retrieval and a broader base of data sources, librarians can play a role in assisting learners with synthesis and understanding.
VALA2008 Session 11 Law
Observing student researchers in their native habitat
VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Websites
Thursday 7 February 2008 11:20 – 11:50
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John Law
Director, Strategic Alliances and Platform Development, ProQuest
http://www.proquest.com
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VALA2008 Session 11 Law Paper 51.66 KB
VALA2008 Session 11 Law Podcast 14 MB
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This paper discusses the challenges student researchers face when attempting to locate relevant e-resources, and the challenges university libraries face in ensuring that academic e-resources are accessible and understood by student researchers. The paper presents original quantitative and qualitative research on the ways in which students access and use academic e-resources, and a comparative analysis of the role of open Web search engines in academic research.
VALA2006 Session 16 Gao
Accessing and using Australian university libraries’ online information services – offshore experience
VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 16: Application Customisation and Open Source
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
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Lily Gao
Librarian, National Meteorological Library, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne
http://www.bom.gov.au
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VALA2006 Session 16 Gao Paper 519.17 KB
VALA2006 Session 16 Gao Podcast 10 MB
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Rapid growth of offshore programs offered by Australian universities in the People’s Republic of China (P.R. China) has presented challenges to the university libraries’ online information services, an important means of supporting offshore programs. To gain some baseline information in this area, the author conducted a pilot study and visited some of the Australian offshore programs’ host institutions and libraries in P.R. China. This paper will present some of the useful information and data collected during the visit. Discussion will focus on offshore students’ experience with their home library online services and their implications for the Australian university libraries’ services.
VALA2006 Plenary 1 McCarty
Individual matrix, communal workshop and “the living condition of the human mind”
VALA 2008 PLENARY 1: Willard McCarty
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 09:00 – 10:15
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Willard McCarty
Reader in Humanities Computing, King’s College London, UK
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch
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VALA2006 Plenary 1 McCarty 81.05 KB
VALA2006 Plenary 1 McCarty Podcast 18 MB
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In this lecture I reflect critically on my bookish experiences as a scholar from the perspective of humanities computing. I ask, how does a digitally adept scholar tend to relate to libraries and what might be extrapolated from this relation? The Web increasingly seems to be undermining the relation between scholar and library. Hence many have begun to think of the library as an information retrieval system. Arguing strongly against such a model, I propose a reorientation centred on the epistemological question fundamental to a computing of as well as in the humanities: how do we know what we know?
VALA2006 Session 3 Robertson
Reaching postgraduate students across the Web: a librarian’s experience of participating in the development of an online programme
VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Teaching and Learning Environments
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 11:20 – 11:50
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Sabina Robertson
Arts Librarian, University of Melbourne
http://www.library.unimelb.edu.au
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VALA2006 Session 3 Robertson Podcast 7 MB
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