CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AND LINKS TO PAPERS
To view a Conference paper click on the title below or go to the Author Index for links to the paper.
Note that, other than keynote presentations and two papers indicated below, each paper presented at the conference was fully refereed to DEST standards. That is, in a single-blind two-round process, at least two members of a national review panel have reviewed each paper.
These papers are published over the web in .pdf (portable document format). To view a .pdf file you will require a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free product) installed on your computer. Click on the Adobe Reader logo at the side to download a copy.
Podcasts are now available. Click on the paper title within each session below or go to the Author Index for links to the podcast and paper.
| Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
Tuesday 5 February 2008
| 0800 - 1800 | Registration | ||
| 0900 - 1015 | PLENARY SESSION: Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Ebe Kartus Andy Powell, Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation, UK Repositories through the looking glass |
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| 1015 - 1045 | Morning Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase - Exhibition Hall | ||
| CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Library 2.0 Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Dale Cousens |
CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Library Spaces Room: Bellarine 6 Chair: Jennifer Eddy |
CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Repositories Room: Bellarine 7 Chair: Ted Chrisfield |
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| 1045 - 1115 | Lynette Lewis, Yarra Plenty Regional Library, Vic Library 2.0: taking it to the street |
Maxine Brodie, Macquarie University, NSW Watch this space! Designing a new library for Macquarie University |
Margaret Henty and Adrian Burton, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, ACT Looking forward by looking back: APSR’s contribution to future repository planning in Australia |
| 1120 - 1150 | Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA Do we remove all the walls? Second Life librarianship |
Natalie Pang and Graeme Johanson, Monash University, Vic Library manager perspectives of the Vocational Education Sector: investigating trends and issues within a Learning Commons paradigm |
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar, Monash University, VIC Building the ARROW community |
| 1155 - 1230 | Cameron Barnes and Karan Jones, University of New England, NSW Making a virtual community real: redeveloping eSKILLS Plus using Web 2.0 |
Liz Burke, Jill Benn and Ralph Kiel, University of Western Australia Claim your space: re-placing spaces to better meet the needs of the Net Generation |
Danny Kingsley, Australian National University, ACT Repositories, research and reporting: the conflict between institutional and disciplinary needs |
| 1230 - 1400 | Lunch, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase – Exhibition Hall | ||
| CONCURRENT SESSION 4: Engaging Communities Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Julie Gardner |
CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Library Spaces Room: Bellarine 6 Chair: Lynette Lewis |
CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Publishing Room: Bellarine 7 Chair: Janette Wright |
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| 1400 - 1430 | Joann Ransom, Horowhenua Library Trust, New Zealand Kete Horowhenua : the story of the District as told by its people |
Bonna Jones, RMIT University, Vic and Yen Wong, State Library of Victoria Virtual and physical: architect Christopher Alexander on living spaces |
Paul Mercieca, RMIT University, Vic Publication patterns of Australian academics and the impact on open access publishing |
| 1435 - 1505 | Deb Stumm and Christine Sayer, State Library of Queensland Queensland Stories: community, collections and digital technology at the State Library of Queensland (2006 VALA Award) |
Wendy Abbott and Mark Sutherland, Bond University, Qld Transforming the library for the new millennium |
Nancy Buckley, United Kingdom Serials Group, UK Streamlining the stress! How Project Transfer is improving the process of journals transferring between publishers |
| 1510 - 1540 | Anne Beaumont, Kelly Gardiner and Stuart Flanagan, State Library of Victoria Conversations or evidence – an analysis of responses from members of the public to an invitation to submit their comments about State Library of Victoria images available over the Web |
Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL Collaborative Solutions, Vic and Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology, WA Changing library spaces: finding a place for print |
Andrew Treloar, and Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Monash University, Vic Data management and the curation continuum: how the Monash experience is informing repository relationships |
| 1540 - 1610 | Afternoon Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase - Exhibition Hall | ||
| 1610 - 1725 | PLENARY SESSION: Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: David Feighan Peter Lor , Secretary General, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Netherlands and Professor Extraordinary, University of Pretoria, South Africa International Librarianship 2.0: some international dimensions of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 |
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| 1730 - 1900 | Welcome Reception - Exhibition Hall | ||
Wednesday 6 February 2008
| 0800 - 1800 | Registration |
| 0900 - 1015 | PLENARY SESSION: Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Tom Denison Schubert Foo , Vice Dean, SCI, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Going virtual for enhanced library experience: a case study of the National Library of Singapore |
| 1015 - 1045 | Morning Tea, Exhibition Viewing, and VALA Showcase - Exhibition Hall |
| 1045 - 1245 | Vendor Presentations |
| 1 Technologies in Libraries Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Bart Rutherford |
2 Publishers and Aggregators Room: Bellarine 1&2 Chair: Lynette Brown |
3 Publishers and Aggregators Room: Bellarine 4&5 Chair: Ebe Kartus |
4 Publishers and Aggregators Room: Bellarine 6 Chair: David Feighan |
5 Library Systems and Other Library Services Room: Bellarine 7 Chair: Teresa Wight |
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| 1045 - 1057 | Infotrieve Australia | Gale | Ovid Technologies | National Library of Australia | Innovative Interfaces |
| 1100 - 1112 | Forms Express | Gale (continued) | ProQuest | Project Muse | SirsiDynix |
| 1115 - 1127 | 3M Australia | RMIT Publishing | Thomson Scientific | EBSCO Information Services | Softlink |
| 1130 - 1142 | Serial Solutions | RMIT Publishing (continued) | Thomson Scientific (continued) | EBSCO Information Services (continued) | Softlink (continued) |
| 1145 - 1157 | OCLC | Emerald Group Publishing | Berkeley Electronic Press | Elsevier | Civica |
| 1200 - 1212 | Vision Australia | Data Monitor | Taylor & Francis | EBL - EBook Library | Civica (continued) |
| 1215 - 1227 | CAVAL | Mergent | Oxford University Press | Sage Publications | Maxus Australia |
| 1230 - 1242 | DA | Casalini Libri | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Thorpe-Bowker | DatacomIT |
| 1245 - 1400 | Lunch, Exhibition Viewing, and VALA Showcase - Exhibition Hall |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Health Information Room: Bellarine 1&2 Chair: Fran Monaghan |
CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Intellectual Property Room: Bellarine 6 Chair: Cathie Jilovsky |
CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Management Information Room: Bellarine 7 Chair: Baden Hughes |
CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Enabling Technologies Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Andrew Treloar |
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| 1400 - 1430 | Garry Hall, Queensland Health Supporting health professionals in evice-based practice: a case study of the Clinicians Knowledge Network |
Vanessa Tuckfield, Canberra Institute of Technology, ACT Intellectual Property/copyright, potentially more than just an elective | David Feighan, Australian Taxation Office, Vic and Vanessa Lewis, Australian Taxation Office, NSW Measuring your work and reporting your value as we move to Library 2.0 |
Alan Butters, Sybis, Vic New RFID technologies & standards – what does it all mean for your library? |
| 1435 - 1505 | Terence Harrison, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Vic Delivering the evidence to the client |
Sandra Henderson and Matthew Walker, National Library of Australia, ACT Development of a rights management system for the National Library of Australia's collections |
Barbara Kirkham and Peter Collins, State Library of Queensland WRMS with legs: a customised approach to a work request management system |
Fiona Bradley, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA and Constance Wiebrands, Curtin University, WA Libraries interact: collaboration and community in the Australian library blogosphere |
| 1510 - 1540 | Geoff Lattimore, University of Western Sydney, NSW Equity, the digital library and a new Medical School |
Emily Hudson, University of Melbourne, VIC Australia's new flexible copyright exception: open-ended in name only? (Invited paper - not peer reviewed) |
Heather Jenks, AUT University, NZ Utilising tools for discovery |
Ellen Forsyth, State Library of New South Wales Fancy walkie talkies, Star Trek communicators or roving reference? (2006 Travel Scholar) |
| 1540 - 1610 | Afternoon Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase - Exhibition Hall | |||
| 1610 - 1725 | PLENARY SESSION: Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Janice Van de Velde Michael Geist , Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Canada Unlocking access: in support of a hands-on Internet policy |
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| 1900 - 2330 | Conference Dinner – Plaza Ballroom, Regent Theatre | |||
Thursday 7 February 2008
| 0800 - 1800 | Registration | ||
| 0900 - 1015 | PLENARY SESSION: Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Anne Beaumont Luke Wroblewski , Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design, Yahoo! Inc. and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, USA Designing for today's Web |
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| 1015 - 1045 | Morning Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase - Exhibition Hall | ||
| CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Websites Room: Bellarine 6 Chair: Sue Steele |
CONCURRENT SESSION 12: ILMS Room: Bellarine 7 Chair: Ed Kostraby |
CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Virtual Reference Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Teresa Wight |
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| 1045 - 1115 | Philip Hider, Sally Burford and Stuart Ferguson, Charles Sturt University, NSW The use of information architecture guidelines by Australian libraries |
Robin Murray, OCLC, UK Building Web scale for libraries |
Kate Davis, Gold Coast City Council, QLD, formerly of the National Library of
Australia, ACT Be my buddy: IM and the future of virtual reference |
| 1120 - 1150 | John Law, ProQuest, USA Observing student researchers in their native habitat |
Lloyd Sokvitne, Jan Lavelle and Carmel Denholm, State Library of Tasmania All for naught: using existing bibliographic data to deliver modern search tools |
Wilma Kurvink, Wesley College, VIC A new paradigm for reference librarians in the online world: developing relationship around research and learning with library users |
| 1155 - 1230 | Sue Owen and Kat Clancy, Deakin University, Vic Deakin Library website 2.0: iterative change for maximum gain |
Alison Dellit, National Library of Australia, ACT Collecting the best data: improving cataloguing systems |
Jean McKay and Helen Bronleigh, Murdoch University, WA, Annmaree Brown and Margaret Wright, Macquarie University, NSW Shibbolising Online Librarian: how two university libraries enhanced their collaborative chat reference service by using a MAMS Mini grant to add authentication and develop an interoperable chat client |
| 1230 - 1400 | Lunch, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase - Exhibition Hall | ||
| CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Social Networking Room: Bellarine 6 Chair: Holley Dumble |
CONCURRENT SESSION 15: Metadata Room: Bellarine 7 Chair: Karen Kealy |
CONCURRENT SESSION 16: Accessibility Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Tony Brooks |
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| 1400 - 1430 | Kim Tairi, Swinburne University of Technology, Vic, Rob McCormack, Peodair Leihy and Peter Ring, Victoria University, Vic Fairy tales and Elggs: social networking with student rovers in learning commons |
Adrian Burton, Chris Blackall and Scott Yeador, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, ACT The metadata coalface for digital repositories |
Tony Iezzi, Vision Australia, Vic Information access: forging new paths |
| 1435 - 1505 | Bruce Heterick, JSTOR, New York, USA Shift happens: how the network effect, two-sided markets, and the wisdom of crowds are impacting libraries and scholarly communication (Not peer reviewed) |
Basil Dewhurst, National Library of Australia, ACT People Australia: a topic based approach to resource discovery |
Carla Pilarski and Debbie Posker, University of Newcastle, NSW Reaching the audience using podcasts, SMS/texting and blogs at the University of Newcastle Library |
| 1505 - 1540 | Afternoon Tea and Exhibition Viewing - Exhibition Hall | ||
| 1540 - 1700 | PLENARY SESSION AND CLOSING: Room: John Batman Theatre Chair: Christine Mackenzie Stuart Weibel , Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Programs and Research, USA Making identifiers concrete (so library places and spaces don't have to be) |
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| 1700 - 1830 | Farewell Refreshments - Level 3 Atrium | ||
REGISTRATION DESK
The Registration and Information Desk will be located on Level 3 of the Melbourne Convention Centre, and will be open from 1200, Monday 4 February 2008 and then from 0800 to 1800 each day of the conference. Please call at the Registration Desk as early as possible to collect your Name Badge and Conference Satchel. The staff at the Registration Desk will be happy to assist you in any way they can.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further enquiries regarding the VALA2008 Conference, please contact the VALA2008 Conference Office.
VALA2008 Conference Office
WALDRONSMITH Management
61 Danks Street West
Port Melbourne VIC 3207
AUSTRALIA
Telephone: +61 3 9645 6311
Facsimile: +61 3 9645 6322
E-mail: info@wsm.com.au