VALA2008 Programme - VALA - Libraries / Technology and the Future //

The VALA2008 14th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 5 – 7 February 2008. The theme for this conference was Libraries/Changing Spaces, Virtual Places.

The following programme was presented at VALA2008. Follow the links to view the abstracts, papers, podcasts and other associated material. You can also browse the VALA2008 online Conference Proceedings. See also the archived VALA2008 conference web site.

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Tuesday 5 February 2008

0800 – 1800	Registration
0900 – 0905	Opening Address and Welcome Tom Denison, VALA2008 Conference Committee Chair
0905 – 1015	PLENARY SESSION: John Batman Theatre Andy Powell, Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation, UK Repositories through the looking glass
1015 – 1045	Morning Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase – Exhibition Area
	Concurrent Session 1: Library 2.0 Room: John Batman Theatre	Concurrent Session 2: Library Spaces Room: Bellarine 6	Concurrent Session 3: Repositories Room: Bellarine 7
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 Area
	Concurrent Session 4: Engaging Communities Room: John Batman Theatre	Concurrent Session 5: Library Spaces Room: Bellarine 6	Concurrent Session 6: Publishing Room: Bellarine 7
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 Area
1610 – 1725	PLENARY SESSION: John Batman Theatre 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
1730 – 1900	Welcome Reception – Exhibition Area

Wednesday 6 February 2008			Top
0800 – 1800	Registration
0900 – 1015	PLENARY SESSION: John Batman Theatre 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 Area
1045 – 1245	VENDOR PRESENTATIONS
	1 Technologies in Libraries Room: John Batman Theatre	2 Publishers and Aggregators Room: Bellarine 1&2	3 Publishers and Aggregators Room: Bellarine 4&5	4 Publishers and Aggregators Room: Bellarine 6	5 Library Systems and Other Library Services Room: Bellarine 7
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 Area
	Concurrent Session 7: Health Information Room: Bellarine 1&2	Concurrent Session 8: Intellectual Property Room: Bellarine 6	Concurrent Session 9: Management Information Room: Bellarine 7	Concurrent Session 10: Enabling Technologies Room: John Batman Theatre
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 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
1435 – 1505	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?	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?
1540 – 1610	Afternoon Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase – Exhibition Area
1610 – 1725	PLENARY SESSION: John Batman Theatre 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
1900 – 2330	Conference Dinner – Plaza Ballroom

Thursday 7 February 2008		Top
0800 – 1800	Registration
0900 – 1015	PLENARY SESSION: John Batman Theatre Luke Wroblewski, Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design, Yahoo! Inc. and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, USA Designing for today’s Web
1015 – 1045	Morning Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase – Exhibition Area
	Concurrent Session 11: Websites Room: Bellarine 6	Concurrent Session 12: ILMS Room: Bellarine 7	Concurrent Session 13: Virtual Reference Room: John Batman Theatre
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 Area
	Concurrent Session 14: Social Networking Room: Bellarine 6	Concurrent Session 15: Metadata Room: Bellarine 7	Concurrent Session 16: Accessibility Room: John Batman Theatre
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	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
1540 – 1610	Afternoon Tea, Exhibition Viewing and VALA Showcase – Exhibition Area
1610 – 1725	PLENARY SESSION: John Batman Theatre Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Programs and Research, USA Making identifiers concrete (so library places and spaces don’t have to be)
1900 – 2330	Farewell Refreshments – Level 3 Atrium

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Tuesday 5 February 2008

Wednesday 6 February 2008

Thursday 7 February 2008