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VALA2014 Session 6 Cheetham
USB: Ubiquitous Superfast Broadband, the promises and perils for Australian librariesVALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Near Futures Warren CheethamCityLibraries Townsville, QLD (VALA Travel Scholar) Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #vala14 and #s16 |  |
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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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VALA2014 Session 6 Hudson
The library of the future: Kiama Library and the NBNVALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Near Futures Michelle HudsonKiama Municipal Council; Library, NSW Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #vala14 and #s17 | |
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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 6 Rolan
Rolling out Digital Hubs in public libraries: the Mill Park storyVALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Near Futures Greg Rolan and Tom DenisonMonash University Christine MackenzieYarra Plenty Regional Library Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #vala14 and #s18 | |
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Yarra Plenty Regional Library (YPRL), with its partner organisations the City of Whittlesea and Whittlesea University of the Third Age (U3A), has been funded to establish a Digital Hub at the Mill Park Branch Library in South Morang, to provide residents with training in the digital literacy skills necessary for participation in the National Broadband Network (NBN)-enabled digital economy. This paper presents results from a research project designed to explore the impact of the Mill Park Digital Hub in its first year of operation, focusing on the role of public libraries in both engaging and educating local communities.
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