VALA2006 Proceedings

The VALA2006 13th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at Crown Towers, Melbourne, Australia from 8 – 10 February 2006. The theme for this conference was Connecting with Users.

The following programme was presented at VALA2006. See also VALA2006 Programme or the archived VALA2006 conference web site.

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VALA2006 Session 14 McGrath

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Heritage Map Digitisation: An adventure in applying aspects of Digital Preservation Policy

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Digitisation and Managing Digital Objects
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-14-mcgrath

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPeter McGrath

Digital Preservation Specialist, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

Shirley Firth

Image Resources Manager, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

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VALA2006 Session 14 McGrath Paper 1.02 MB
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Abstract

This paper discusses some of the key principles of the State Library of Victoria’s recently released Digital Preservation Policy and how these were applied to a heritage map digitisation project, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Maps Digitising Project. Principles discussed include image capture standards, image metadata, storage and media. The project presented many challenges and twists and turns along the way- a surprising adventure for the project team.

 

VALA2006 Session 14 Laurie

VALA2006Reviving the past: the Early New Zealand Books Online Project at the University of Auckland Library

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Digitisation and Managing Digital Objects
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-14-laurie

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperJohn Laurie

Subject Librarian, Anthropology, Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland Library
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz

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VALA2006 Session 14 Laurie Paper 1.33 MB
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The aim of the ENZB project at the University of Auckland Library is to provide a corpus of significant material published about New Zealand in the first two thirds of the 19th century. This paper looks at design parameters for the database and technical processes used to convert printed text and images to electronic format for presentation on the web. The ENZB is an in-house project using FineReader 7 OCR software to produce TEI-compliant XML files. b-engine software produces HTML for the web and links text to images of the original pages.

 

VALA2006 Session 15 Funnell

VALA2006Brushtail – an open source library intranet

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: Application Customisation and Open Source
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-15-funnell

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperDavid Funnell

Developer, Eastern Regional Libraries Corporation
http://www.erl.vic.gov.au

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VALA2006 Session 15 Funnell Paper 70.95 KB
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Brushtail is an intranet application developed at Eastern Regional Libraries that is now available as open source software. The intranet was developed to provide a web portal for library staff to easily access policies and procedures. In addition to a content management system it includes some custom applications that include an events and computer bookings. It is cross platform and runs on software freely available on the Internet.

 

VALA2006 Session 15 Brooks

VALA2006If you can’t buy it, build it: adapting a generic commercial application to meet specific organisation goals

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 15: Application Customisation and Open Source
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-15-brooks

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperTony Brooks

Training/Website Services Officer, City Library, Melbourne, Victoria
http://www.citylibrary.org.au

Zan Li

IT Services Officer, City Library, Melbourne, Victoria
http://www.citylibrary.org.au

Sarah Field

Information Services Coordinator, City Library, Melbourne, Victoria
http://www.citylibrary.org.au

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VALA2006 Session 15 Brooks Paper 238.43 KB
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Abstract

What do you do if you need solutions to ensure the equitable use of computing facilities in a public context, have pre-purchased a commercial package to ensure this happens but realised that due to software compatibility issues beyond your control it will not function at present? The answer for City Library was to utilise the technical, logistical and project management skills that existed in-house, use a Microsoft product and transform it into a robust automated computer booking system with the features that were needed in less than three months. This paper outlines the steps that were taken by the City Library Information Services Team in developing that system including the strategic, technical, training and operational challenges that were encountered and how they were overcome.

 

VALA2006 Session 16 Karasmanis

VALA2006Online Tutorials: delivering training in VDX Document Delivery to end users – on campus, off campus and offshore

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 16: Managing Internal and External Stakeholders
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-16-karasmanis

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperSharon Karasmanis

Interlending and Document Delivery, Deputy Resource Delivery Services Librarian, La Trobe University Library
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au

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VALA2006 Session 16 Karasmanis Paper 126.71 KB
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La Trobe University Library provides interlending and document delivery services to academic staff and postgraduate students located in campuses and research centres in the Melbourne metropolitan area and regional Victoria, as well as remote off campus students throughout Australia, and off shore students predominantly in China and Vietnam. In 2004, the Library implemented VDX software to manage all interlending and document delivery requests. ZPortal, the web based customer interface, provides request management and desktop delivery of documents. This paper describes the experience of developing online tutorials, in response to the need to provide a simple training solution for all end users in the use of this new system.

 

VALA2006 Session 16 Gao

VALA2006Accessing and using Australian university libraries’ online information services – offshore experience

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 16: Application Customisation and Open Source
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-16-gao

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperLily Gao

Librarian, National Meteorological Library, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne
http://www.bom.gov.au

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VALA2006 Session 16 Gao Paper 519.17 KB
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Rapid growth of offshore programs offered by Australian universities in the People’s Republic of China (P.R. China) has presented challenges to the university libraries’ online information services, an important means of supporting offshore programs. To gain some baseline information in this area, the author conducted a pilot study and visited some of the Australian offshore programs’ host institutions and libraries in P.R. China. This paper will present some of the useful information and data collected during the visit. Discussion will focus on offshore students’ experience with their home library online services and their implications for the Australian university libraries’ services.

 

VALA2006 Plenary 6 Chachra

VALA2006 Keynote SpeakerThe role of the library as an extension of the mind

Vinod Chachra

VALA 2008 PLENARY 6: Vinod Chachra
Friday 10 February 2006, 15:40 – 17:00
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-plenary-6-chachra

Vinod Chachra

Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc, USA
http://www.vtls.com

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VALA2006 Plenary 6 Chachra Paper 8.70 KB
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Abstract

The publishing and self-publishing of born digital materials are already creating an “information deluge.” Additionally, mass digitization projects like the Million Book Project, the Google Library Project and the Open Content Alliance hold the promise of making vast amounts of additional content available to users. Already the available information exceeds our ability to organize and use it. How will the libraries of tomorrow cope with this? To answer this we need to start with information systems.