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“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” Exploring a state-wide ICT skills training project for Victorian public library staff

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Upskilling
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-10-edwards

Tom Edwards

Wyndham City Libraries, Vic

Michelle McLean

Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation, Vic

Jayne Cleave

State Library Victoria

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Abstract

This paper examines the background and initial development of an online training resource, created in response to a comprehensive skills audit of Victorian Public Library Staff in late 2013. The audit revealed a capacity and confidence gap between respondents and manager expectations in the area of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and general digital literacy. The training resource will address ICT skills and confidence through a hybrid of structured content and challenge/inquiry-based learning and reflection.

 

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VALA2014 Session 6 Hudson

The library of the future: Kiama Library and the NBN

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Near Futures
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 14:40 – 15:10
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Michelle Hudson

Kiama Municipal Council; Library, NSW

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Kiama Library was one of the first public libraries in mainland Australia to be connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN). The NBN has opened up a plethora of opportunities for our regional community and as a result our library has facilitated a number of new health services, such as headspace Mental Health consultations for youth and providing and supporting Telehealth equipment, and has investigated many potential new educational library programs, such as connecting to the collection conservation programs at the National Museum of Australia and facilitating virtual tours of their Landmark Gallery.

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VALA2014 Session 9 Barry

Learn to play and play to learn: using public libraries for creativity and collaboration

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Get Creative
Wednesday 5 February 2014, 13:45 – 14:15
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Tania Barry

Vic (formerly Yarra Plenty Regional Library)

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With the role of libraries in learning already widely recognised, the next wave of opportunity for libraries is to facilitate community engagement in new ways of knowledge sharing and creative practice. Libraries need to rethink existing interiors, creating spaces for people to come together to learn. Libraries need to share and to develop new ideas and activities for outreach, using technology as an enabler. The paper examines Digital Hubs and maker spaces as examples of reinvented spaces, and discusses geocaching as an example of the reinvention of programs aimed at increasing community knowledge-sharing and creativity.

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VALA2014 Session 13 Biswas

Grass roots digitisation: how to engage with your community

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Engaging Culture
Thursday 6 February 2014, 14:55 – 15:25
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Smita Biswas

Auckland City Libraries, New Zealand

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This paper shares the experience of two mid-sized New Zealand public libraries involving their communities in starting their digitisation projects using Kete open source software. These communities were encouraged to share their unique stories and digitise their images and oral histories. The Kete software was extended to harvest relevant social media content from YouTube, Twitter and Digital New Zealand and link it to the community-contributed local content, to create a rich digital local history resource. The paper also gives the libraries’ tips on planning the scope of their digitisation projects and then making these projects self-managing and less reliant on staff members.

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