VALA2016 Proceedings

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The VALA2016 18th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 9 – 11 February 2016.

The following papers were presented at VALA2016. See also the VALA2016 Program.

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VALA2016 Session 4 Karasmanis

Antonia Lamanna

Sharon Karasmanis

Students first: innovative partnerships to enrich the student academic experience

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: Working Together
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Sharon Karasmanis and Antonia Lamanna

La Trobe University, Vic

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University libraries are no longer only the domain of librarians, students and scholars. As collections have moved online, libraries have created more collaborative working spaces for students, and incorporated other enquiry services such as IT or academic skills assistance. In 2015, La Trobe University went one step further and integrated Student Administration services to extend the student help portfolio via single physical and virtual service points. As part of a total University and Library restructure, a new service model was created in the Library, incorporating six specialist help areas: Library, Student Administration, Course Advisors, IT, Careers, and Academic Skills.

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VALA2016 Session 4 Pepper

A textbook example: the academic library and Cengage Learning eTextbook pilot

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: Working Together
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 15:20 – 15:50
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Alison Pepper

University of Wollongong, NSW

Maryce Johnstone

Cengage Learning, Vic

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This paper shares both publisher and library perspectives and findings from a 2014/2015 Cengage-Learning eTextbook pilot project, an Australia and New Zealand first for institutional elending and region-specific eTextbooks for the academic library. In mid-2014, seven eTextbooks were released via established aggregator platform, EBL, with a three-concurrent-user model. An additional twenty titles were added for first semester 2015. Preliminary results are presented in this paper. The benefits of integrating and experiencing eTexts in new Teaching and Learning paradigms has yet to be fully realised across stakeholders, posing both risk and opportunity for both library and publisher.

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VALA2016 Session 5 Ruge

Courtney Ruge

Digital image collections and social media sharing: goals, strategies, and challenges for Australian cultural institutions

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Warding the Past
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Courtney Ruge and Tom Denison

Monash University, Vic

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This paper reports on the use of social media in conjunction with digital image collections by Australian cultural institutions. The research draws upon an adaptation of the theory of affordances in examining the goals, implementation, and outcomes of a sample of cultural institutions in using digital image collections in various combinations with social media platforms. The implications and challenges associated with establishing and maintaining a strong presence within the spaces of image-sharing and information-sharing via social media and digital image collections are explored, including examples from the current practices of Australian cultural institutions obtained through a website survey and interviews with industry professionals.

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VALA2016 Session 5 Mamtora

Neil Godfrey

Preserving a living archive of Indigenous language material

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Warding the Past
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 15:20 – 15:50
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Neil Godfrey, Jayshree Mamtora and Catherine Bow

Charles Darwin University, NT

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This paper describes how Charles Darwin University Library is directly helping to sustain and preserve Aboriginal languages and culture that have been facing hurdles for long-term survival. The Library, in partnership with an ARC-funded research project known as the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages (www.cdu.edu.au/laal), supports this effort with a repository, web application and digitisation program to preserve endangered Indigenous resources and facilitate both Indigenous community engagement and international linguistic research. The project serves as a rich case study demonstrating how academic libraries can work with researchers to support the archiving of cultural heritage.

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VALA2016 Session 6 Bryce

Catriona Bryce

Trove and social media today: does a click through mean what we think it means?

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Counting IT
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Catriona Bryce

National Library of Australia, ACT

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Using social media is now business as usual for the National Library of Australia and Trove. The Trove team believes that it is engaging people in these spaces, people who know and love Trove and those who have never heard of it. The team believes it is promoting the use of Trove. But is this true? Do people really click through to those links? Do people find Trove and keep coming back? Understanding what the team at Trove wants to achieve in social media is crucial to assessing its value. Is impact in the numbers, the individual stories of lives changed, or is it an interweaving of both?

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VALA2016 Plenary 2 Rainie

Lee Rainie

The Puzzles Librarians Need to Solve

VALA2016 PLENARY SESSION 2
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 16:20 – 17:30
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Lee Rainie

Pew Research Centre

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Abstract

In order to thrive in the future, librarians will need to be great forecasters and innovators. There are key puzzles they need to figure out. Among them: What’s the future of personal enrichment and entertainment? What’s the future of people’s pathways to knowledge and reference expertise? What’s the future of public technology and community anchor institutions? What’s the future of learning “spaces”? What’s the future of attention and its structural holes? Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center will describe how his organization’s research provides guideposts for librarians along three dimensions of library activity: the people, the place, and the platform.

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VALA2016 Plenary 3 Charles

Valentine Charles

Building a Framework for Semantic Cultural Heritage Data

VALA2016 PLENARY SESSION 3
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 9:00 – 10:15
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Valentine Charles

Europeana Foundation

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The creation of Europeana, the digital library for Europe raised a key question: how to integrate and exchange multilingual and cross-domain data? The challenge was to develop an advanced data model, re-using components of the most recent web technology while preserving domain specificities. Now, five years later, the Europeana Data Model is the core model of Europeana and is used by several other cultural aggregators, such as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the German Digital Library. The library community has a key role in defining the future of the model. Its involvement will enable the connection of library data with other cultural heritage data in a seamless, semantic and interoperable environment.

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VALA2016 Session 7 Lawler

Emma Lawler

The producers: rethinking roles to create an in-Library production team

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Rethink IT
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Emma Lawler

Macquarie University, NSW

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Staff at Macquarie University Library (MUL) have employed Project Based Learning (PBL) to facilitate multimedia skill development. This approach has created a team of people who are agile, enquiring, and creative. The paper suggests that by combining the application of a new set of media literacy skills with technology enhanced project-based learning, library technicians and frontline service librarians are given the opportunity to work on projects that equip staff with highly transferrable skills and a new attitude to projects and work while providing quality online information literacy support online at point of need to MUL clients.

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VALA2016 Session 7 Deacon

Learning by (more than) doing: developing staff capability through the collaborative creation of an eLearning module

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Learning
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Megan Deacon, Amy Han, Melanie Thorn and Steven Yates

Monash University, Vic

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This paper describes how Monash University Library created an online learning copyright resource for university staff as an artefact of an in-house blended learning course. The Copyright Module was developed through library staff collaboration and transference of skills. The team undertook continuous evaluation from multiple perspectives to inform the design, development and implementation of the module. Through this multi-dimensional approach, the team was able to create prototype activities for the module and use them to create other resources by involving the target audience in decisions about the module’s improvement. This process has led to a template of design principles for future work on this module, making it a sustainable model for in-house development of other online learning resources.

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Students first: innovative partnerships to enrich the student academic experience

Sharon Karasmanis and Antonia Lamanna

Abstract

A textbook example: the academic library and Cengage Learning eTextbook pilot

Alison Pepper

Maryce Johnstone

Abstract

Digital image collections and social media sharing: goals, strategies, and challenges for Australian cultural institutions

Courtney Ruge and Tom Denison

Abstract

Preserving a living archive of Indigenous language material

Neil Godfrey, Jayshree Mamtora and Catherine Bow

Abstract

Trove and social media today: does a click through mean what we think it means?

Catriona Bryce

Abstract

Altmetrics: social media metrics tools expanding the librarian’s role

Richard P. Hulser

Abstract

The Puzzles Librarians Need to Solve

Lee Rainie

Abstract

Building a Framework for Semantic Cultural Heritage Data

Valentine Charles

Abstract

The producers: rethinking roles to create an in-Library production team

Emma Lawler

Abstract

Learning by (more than) doing: developing staff capability through the collaborative creation of an eLearning module

Megan Deacon, Amy Han, Melanie Thorn and Steven Yates

Abstract