VALA2002 Proceedings

VALA2002, the 11th VALA Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 6 – 8 February 2002. The theme of the conference was e-volving information futures.

The following programme was presented at VALA2002. See also the archived VALA2002 conference web site.

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VALA2002 Plenary 1 Greenstein

Next Generation Digital Libraries

VALA 2002 PLENARY 1: Daniel Greenstein
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 09:00 – 10:15
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Daniel Greenstein

Digital Library Federation, Washington, D.C., USA
http://www.clir.org

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The article traces the development of digital libraries and asks what is next for a suite of activities (or is it in an organizational form?) that is fundamentally important to the future of research, learning, and cultural engagement. It focuses largely on the experience of leading US research libraries as a spring-board to two discussions: about key challenges that digital libraries more generally may confront in the next few years, and about how national cultural, legal, and funding regimes may influence the digital library’s history and its future course.

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VALA2002 Session 1 Hildebrand

iNet: Information & Collaboration on the Web

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Collaboration
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 10:45 – 11:15
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Ian Hildebrand

City of Charles Sturt Library Service, SA

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The iNet project has been a collaborative project by the South Australian Public Library Network in partnership with the Council of Library Administrators of South Australia (CLASA) and PLAIN Central Services (PCS). iNet is a customisable information Web site which consists of a core element of generic links to quality information resources available on the World Wide Web. Maintaining, updating and adding links to the site is performed by a variety of Subject Administrator Libraries across the State. Maintenance is facilitated via a password protected content management tool which enables administrators to make changes to their subject content without requiring HTML or other Web programming knowledge or skills.

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VALA2002 Session 1 O’Connor

Evolution of a Collaborative Solution for Academic Libraries: The Victorian Academic Digital Library VADL)

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Collaboration
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:20 – 11:50
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Steve O’Connor

CAVAL Collaborative Solutions

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The CAVAL member libraries believe that the major issue confronting libraries at the start of the New Millennium is collection development. These Libraries have been committed to the achievement of VADL for the past twelve months. VADL will be a Digital Library which will be shared and yet reflect the interests of each of the discipline interests of the member universities. VADL has established a range of research into the shape and extent of existing collections within Victoria. This paper highlights the path taken by these libraries, how their response differs from the American experience and how collaboration can be achieved through a new service model.

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VALA2002 Session 1 Shulz

The Internet Resources Project: an Exercise in Collaboration

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Collaboration
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:55 – 12:30
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Natalie Schulz

Griffith University Library

Sarah Fredline

Queensland University of Technology Library

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This paper describes a collaborative effort to select and describe free Internet resources by Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Libraries in Brisbane, Australia. After considering the options available, the Libraries decided to trial selection and description of free Internet resources by Reference staff using a web input form, with some records upgraded to full cataloguing.

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VALA2002 Session 2 Booth

Mediating for metadata standards: competing demands of E-government, archivists and librarians for resource description in New Zealand

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Metadata
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 10:45 – 11:15
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Keitha Booth

National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mätauranga o Aotearoa

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Over a tight-timeframe in 2000/2001, a New Zealand E-government Unit Working Group produced a metadata standard to assist New Zealanders find government information and services on its websites. During the same period, a NZ government portal was being designed, Archives New Zealand issued record keeping standards, and the National Library of New Zealand issued a metadata standards framework for resource discovery across all NLNZ media and for the Library’s collections. This process has highlighted the significant need for cross-agency understanding and discussion, and the importance of maintaining and contributing to international standard development to ensure global inter-operability and transfer of information.

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VALA2002 Session 2 Northey

Meta or better data? The value of user profiling for information services

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Metadata
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:20 – 11:50
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Stephen Northey and Bill Fatouros

Optimus Prime Pty Ltd

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The increased use of information technology and ‘meta data’ standards have resulted in a reduction in the competitive advantage gained from the application of traditional ‘meta-data’ elements, despite the continued importance of this practice. Without effective user profiling that allows information systems to match information with people, practice and strategy, the content expectations of these systems will inevitably fall short. Application of an extended range of ‘meta data’ elements can assist information services to differentiate their products and services in the market place, create a knowledge profile for their organisation and better target the delivery of services for competitive advantage. User profiles then become valuable information objects in themselves that allow users to locate expertise within an organisation and allow information services to position information within practice communities and strategic context.

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VALA2002 Session 2 Williams

Optimising Synergy between Metadata, Database Platform and Business Needs: the Case of SIM at RMIT

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Metadata
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:55 – 12:30
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Rhys Williams, Troy Boulton, Phil Anderson and Cherryl Schauder

RMIT University

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In 2000 RMIT University launched a Web Refurbishment Project using RMIT Multi Media Database Systems’ SIM (Structured Information Manager) software. The vision of the project was to create an enterprise-wide information environment which encompasses functions from communication and learning, to knowledge and information management, and record keeping. To achieve these goals the SIM database platform was configured to make extensive use of a mix of technical and business metadata to underpin the diverse functions required of the system. This paper outlines how metadata operates at different levels of the Web publishing system, from the perspectives of system development and programming, project design and management, and metadata standards development.

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VALA2002 Session 3 Mare

The integration of information services into an on-line environment

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: e-literacy
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 10:45 – 11:15
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Angela Mare and Suzanne Poulter

Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

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E-learning, now established as a permanent feature in the teaching landscape, has created long term effects for information professionals. As educational institutions grapple with developing new models of support for this new and growing group of students, so too do information professionals. To enable informed decisions, prepare library services and ensure appropriate support for teaching staff and students, information professionals need to have pertinent information in e-learning. To this end, the presenters of this paper visited libraries overseas to investigate the relationship of the new players within the electronic environment, the needs of the students and the role of the information professionals.

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VALA2002 Session 3 Cummings

Virtual Training For Virtual Clients

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: e-literacy
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:20 – 11:50
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Leanne Cummings

Queensland Police Service

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The Queensland Police Service (QPS) Library provides information services to over 10,000 personnel stationed throughout Queensland. Eighty five percent of these clients are considered remote, and are unable to physically access one of the three QPS libraries. The Virtual Library (VL) database was implemented in 1997 to enable clients to access, search and retrieve information resources from any QPS computer, regardless of their location or roster commitments. Clients were provided with an equitable and effective library service which was available 24 hours, every day. However, client demographics continued to hinder the delivery of equitable and cost-effective library literacy training. To overcome this challenge, a Computer-Based Training (CBT) program was developed for the VL. The VL CBT is an online tutorial that aims to teach clients in using the VL. Available from any QPS computer, 24 hours a day, the VL CBT has proven to be a highly successful resource. It has provided the best solution in delivering equitable and economic library training to a large client base, consisting mostly of remote clients.

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VALA2002 Session 3 Blackall

Rethinking Information Literacy in Higher Education: the Case for Informatics

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: e-literacy
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:55 – 12:30
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Chris Blackall

Australian National University

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This paper discusses the implications and problems of the Information Literacy Standards published by the Council of Australian University Librarians in 2001. Its focus is on the difficulties implementers of university-based information literacy programs increasingly face as they attempt to ‘integrate’ or ‘embed’ information literacy in subject curricula as suggested by the Standards. The most central of these difficulties are the political dangers facing library teachers/educators as they attempt to expand into the academically controlled areas of curriculum design and teaching. This paper suggests that an inclusive model of ‘informatics’ can help overcome such barriers to program implementation.

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