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The VALA2014 17th Biennial Conference and Exhibition is to be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 3 – 6 February 2014. The theme for this conference is streaming with possibilites.

The following papers will be presented at VALA2014. See also the VALA2014 Programme.

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VALA2014 Plenary 2 Bollen

Social media as an agent of socio-economic change: analytics and applications

VALA2014 PLENARY SESSION 2
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 16:20 – 17:30
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Johan Bollen

Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, USA

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Billions of individuals are now participating in online social networking environments. The resulting social media streams provide crowd-sourced information on a range of psychological, social, economic, and political phenomena. In our work, we analyse large scale social media data to gauge and even predict a variety of socio-economic developments, including the stock market, consumer behaviour, elections, and even scientific impact. In my key note, I will provide an overview of the most exciting developments in this emerging field, and discuss how the power of the crowd may be leveraged to bring about fundamental social and economic changes.

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VALA2014 Plenary 3 Tan

A new kind of citizens’ library through the Singapore Memory Project

VALA2014 PLENARY SESSION 3
Wednesday 5 February 2014, 8:45 – 9:55
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Gene Tan

National Library Singapore

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Gene will share with us the impetus behind the Singapore Memory project – a whole-of-nation initiative to collect, create, preserve and make accessible memories of people, places, events and institutions in Singapore by the National Library of Singapore. The project builds on Singapore’s already strong collections by adding a completely new dimension – emotive and evocative memories. Gene will answer big questions such as how the National Library is preserving and sharing the memories of a nation. The ultimate vision of the project is to build a citizen’s library where content is built around the memories of citizens and every citizen has a book that truly relates to his or her experiences of Singapore. The people of Singapore are the Library.

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VALA2014 Boot Camp Session C Hyde

Transforming yourself for the future library

RMIT Publishing / VALAtech Boot Camp Session C
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 10:50 – 12:30
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Justine Hyde

State Library of Victoria

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Libraries are in the midst of a transformational change that is driven by complex shifts in their operating environment. Libraries are responding to these shifts in creative and novel ways in order to stay relevant and financially viable. Today’s library leaders must be prepared not only to transform their libraries, but also to transform themselves. Readers are invited to imagine their library in 2020, and to set out on the journey to transform their career in preparation for this future.

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VALA2014 Session 4 Velasquez

Usability of public library websites in Australia

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: User Discovery and Experiences
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 14:05 – 14:35
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Dianne Velasquez, Andree Brett, Robin Costelloe, Daniel Easterbrook, Margaret Parker and Amy Vanner

University of South Australia

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The project is an assessment and evaluation of 221 Australian public library websites to determine whether they provide basic information to patrons. By replicating a study done in the U.S., the researchers determined what information was present on 20 variables.

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VALA2014 Session 4 Iezzi

The first accessible catalogue for the print-disabled community in Australia

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: User Discovery and Experiences
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 14:40 – 15:10
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Tony Iezzi

Vision Australia

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The online catalogue from the Vision Australia Information Library Service provides access to specially prepared audio books, newspapers and magazines that can be read by any person with a print disability, using appropriate software and technology. All the titles use the latest technologies to enable people with a print disability to browse through a book, magazine or newspaper and easily use a table of contents, in much the same way as a sighted reader. Most of us take for granted the range of advanced search features in catalogues, yet only in the 21st century have these features finally become available in an Australian library service for the print-disabled community.

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VALA2014 Session 4 Murdoch

Journey into the user experience: creating a library website that’s not for librarians

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: User Discovery and Experiences
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 15:15 – 15:45
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Craig Murdoch and Shari Hearne

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

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Auckland University of Technology Library started work on a major redevelopment of its website in 2012. The problem was that the website content, as is the case for many library websites, had been written by librarians with almost no user input. The challenge was to redesign the website, rethinking our entire focus and placing the user at the centre of the process. This is the story of a journey of transformational change based on our user-centric approach. We believe we have achieved what we set out to do and created a website that’s built not for librarians but for users.

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VALA2014 Session 5 Pham

Influences of technology on collaboration between academics and librarians

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Innovate
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 14:05 – 14:35
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Hue Thi Pham and Kerry Tanner

Monash University, Vic

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This paper presents the preliminary findings of an in-depth case study of the influences of technology in collaboration between academics and library staff in an Australian university. It has investigated the use of the current technologies, enabling and constraining factors of technology as well as the influences of institutional structure on the use of technology in collaboration. Institutional contexts, capability of the collaborator, and the academic and professional divide were analysed to gain further insights. It concludes with recommendations for universities interested in addressing the issues of technology and structure in collaboration between library staff and academics in various academic contexts.

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VALA2014 Session 5 Ogle

Just accept it! Increasing researcher input into the business of research outputs

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Innovate
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 14:40 – 15:10
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Lisa Ogle and Kai Jin Chen

University of Newcastle, NSW

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This paper discusses the experience of the University of Newcastle in implementing the NURO research publications management system, using Symplectic Elements software. The new system provides an opportunity to value-add library services for researchers, while meeting the demands from university management for richer publications reporting tools. A particular challenge is re-engaging researchers in the research publications management process, after many years of the Library doing much of the work on their behalf.

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VALA2014 Session 5 Wolski

Terra Nova: a new land for librarians?

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Innovate
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 15:15 – 15:45
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Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson

Griffith University, QLD

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As society tackles increasingly complex issues, there is a driving imperative for new knowledge, approaches and technologies to empower solutions, especially in emerging areas of inquiry. This paper discusses how federated research collections, such as Terra Nova, are being developed in Australia between collaborative partners to address this need. It examines the role of librarians in not only the development of these new systems but also in the ongoing support and outreach. It highlights the importance of the librarian as a key participant in a cross-disciplinary, potentially multi-institutional, research support team/network.

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VALA2014 Session 6 Cheetham

USB: Ubiquitous Superfast Broadband, the promises and perils for Australian libraries

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Near Futures
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 14:05 – 14:35
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Warren Cheetham

CityLibraries Townsville, QLD

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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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