VALA2022: Implementation of Robotics and STEM Education within the Library sector
With the growing appetite for STEM education and educational robotics from communities across Australia, libraries which are key pillars of the community have been investing in equipment, resources and programs that meet this need. In this presentation Sam Kingsley, the Brainary’s Head of STEM Education will examine how to successfully implement STEM education and educational robots within the Library sector.
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Topic: Implementation of Robotics and STEM Education within the Library sector
Date: Thursday 28th April 2022
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm AEST (9.00am AWST, 1.00pm NZST, 10.30am ACST)
Join Sam Kingsley in examining:
- what STEM Education is.
- the importance of STEM Education within the Library sector and why there is a growing demand for it.
- how libraries are delivering programs and allocating resources to meet this need.
- why STEM Education and robotics initiatives succeed and why they fail.
Who should attend:
Children’s and Youth Librarians- Programs Coordinators and Managers
- Library Managers
By the end of the session participants:
- will have a clear understanding of educational robotics and STEM Education, and why there is a strong demand from Australian communities.
- will be familiar with examples of successful educational robotics and stem education programs within Australia.
- are able to identify the key ingredients for successful implementation.
This event is free to attend for members and non-members. Registration is essential and will be confirmed via email.
VALA2022: Critical Conversation – The death of cooperative cataloguing as we know it (Melissa Parent and Ebe Kartus)
Universal Bibliographic Control is dead (or should be) so where to next for the cooperative environment? Why are its concepts still driving our complaints about the ANBD?
Topic: Critical Conversation – The death of cooperative cataloguing as we know it
Date: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Time: 10:30 – 11:30 AEDT (9.30am AEST, 7.30am AWST, 12.30pm NZDT)
Join Melissa Parent and Ebe Kartus in discussing (and being provocative):
- Cooperative cataloguing serves the community and not a single agency: contribute meaningfully to have a voice.
- The community is available to help individual cataloguers upskill; the community has no responsibility for individual agencies i.e., individual agencies have a responsibility to upskill their cataloguers if skills are lacking.
- The new Resource Description and Access (RDA) descriptive metadata standard allows for multiple contributions that may not serve your institution.
- Trove Collaborative Services has the same budget and software limitations that individual agencies are working within
Collectively we may not come to any definitive conclusions but we should all come away with a better understanding of the current resource description environment.
Who should attend:
- Cataloguers or delegates who are engaged in cataloguing/resource description
- Managers of cataloguing/resource description teams
Cataloguers grumble about bad merges, flawed merges of our data in the ANBD/WorldCat, flawed cataloguing training from our accredited providers, and devaluation of cataloguing skills.
By the end of the session participants:
- will have an understanding that not everything needs to be contributed centrally, libraries can keep some of their data for themselves
- are able to re-evaluate the role that each cataloguer and cataloguing agency can play in the 21st century cataloguing environment
- will be familiar with some of the ways they can access training and where they can ask questions
- will have a familiarity of how the current RDA lays the groundwork for a different way to catalogue and view cataloguing
This Critical Conversation event is free to attend for members and non-members. Registration is essential and will be confirmed via email.
VALA2022: Leaning In – VALA
With conference deferred, join us during what would have been conference week, for a time to catchup with colleagues and to reminisce about past VALA’s. What are your highlights, who can’t you wait to see? Share your memories, catch up with missed colleagues and help us to start the journey towards our rescheduled 2022 VALA Conference.
Topic: Leaning In – VALA2022
Date: Wednesday 9 February 2022
Time: 12:00 noon – 1:00 PM AEDT
This Leaning In event is free to attend for members and non-members. Registration is essential and will be confirmed via email.
Stay tuned for further events leading up to VALA2022.