VALA2020 Proceedings

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The 20th Biennial Conference and Exhibition, VALA2020, was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 11 – 13 February 2020.

The following papers were presented at VALA2020. See also the VALA2020 Program.  Peer-reviewed and lnvited Papers will be available to access individually for each session.

The full set of conference proceedings from VALA2020 is available as a single pdf download. This registered publication contains all 40 concurrent sessions and 7 vendor papers, and is a simple, one-click resource for academics, students and the wider VALA network. (Click on the image to the right to view and download.)

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VALA2020 Session 8 McLean

Office without walls: the move to a mobile working environment for staff at Casey Cardinia Libraries

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 8
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:50 – 11:20

Michelle McLean
  • Information Services Coordinator
  • Casey Cardinia Libraries

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VALA2020 Session 8 McLean Paper 189.85 KB
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VALA2020 Session 8 McLean Slides 112MB
Abstract

This presentation will explore the journey of Casey Cardinia Libraries’ staff, as they moved from working in offices with desktop computers and fixed landlines, to working mobile. The focus is on Regional Support staff, but this paper will also explore how branch staff were impacted. CCL’s move to mobile working has involved a range of changes, including new software, hardware and new ways of working, and this paper will explore them and the implications of these changes on the staff involved, on the work they do and on the people they serve.

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VALA2020 Session 8 Thompson

Adventures in technology: experiences in facilitating a youth-led library website project

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 8
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Sarah Thompson
  • Branch Manager, Manly Library
  • Northern Beaches Council Library
Michaela Wagland
  • Digital Producer
  • Northern Beaches Council Library

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Abstract

In the current social and technological environment, public libraries have rapidly evolved in responding to, understanding and facilitating the versatile needs of the community. While more creative digital programs and facilities are being offered, they are always not structured for digital literate youth. Libraries need to change the way they engage with youth and technology by providing connected leaning and youth-led programming where young people can create, learn and collaborate. We explored this in our award winning project, Tiny Doors, which featured website creation as a major component of the project.

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VALA2020 Session 8 Mundell

Augmented libraries: preparing public libraries for virtual & augmented reality

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 8
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Scott Mundell
  • Library Technician
  • Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries
Steven Mundell
  • Team Leader Digital and Community Learning
  • Yarra Libraries

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Abstract

Consumer-ready virtual reality technology has developed rapidly since its launch in 2016. With recent milestone advancements in all-in-one virtual reality headsets and exponential consumer adoption, it is the perfect time to re-evaluate the appropriateness of this technology to meet the strategic needs of Victorian public libraries. Through our project for the 2018 Margery C Ramsay scholarship we travelled to California and Nevada to research state-wide initiatives that introduced virtual reality to over 100 public libraries. This paper details the background of our project, findings and proposes what the next phase of VR in public libraries could look like.

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VALA2020 Session 9 Chang

Beyond makerspaces to a network of regional innovation hubs

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:50 – 11:20

May Chang
  • Library Chief Technology Officer
  • University of Cincinnati

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VALA2020 Session 9 Chang Paper 124KB
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Makerspaces have been well received and used in communities, libraries, and universities, and those in Cincinnati, Ohio are no exception. However, there is limited outreach to and access by schools and adult learning programs. The Greater Cincinnati Regional Smart Campuses project broadens the scope to create a regional network of smart innovation hubs in public schools and some local communities that complement makerspaces. This will also provide more equitable access to technology resources and help bridge the digital divide.

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VALA2020 Session 9 Sommerfeldt

Looking to the future to learn from the past: using specialist imaging technologies to aid research into historic books and manuscripts at the University of Sydney Library

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Julia Sommerfeldt
  • Manager, Rare Books & Special Collections
  • University of Sydney Library

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VALA2020 Session 9 Sommerfeldt Paper 214.97 KB
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VALA2020 Session 9 Sommerfeldt Slides 58MB
Abstract

Current trends within academic libraries see many divesting substantial amounts of their print collections. Within this environment, rare and special collections can stand out as significant and unique features distinguishing one University Library from another. In the last two years, Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC) at the University of Sydney Library has initiated and supported several multi-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects using specialised imaging technologies to investigate historic books and manuscripts. This paper will examine and evaluate the inception and early stages of several ongoing projects, focusing on the potential benefits and limitations of these non-destructive techniques.

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VALA2020 Session 9 Berthon

Trove—a collaborative approach to digital: more content and showcasing our Partners

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Hilary Berthon
  • Assistant Director, Trove Outreach
  • National Library of Australia
Julia Hickie
  • Assistant Director, Trove Data, Discovery & Delivery
  • National Library of Australia
Peter Collins
  • Assistant Director, Digitisation & Document Delivery
  • National Library of Australia

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VALA2020 Session 9 Berthon Paper 497KB
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For a decade Trove has been a place to find, marvel at and engage with the many perspectives and stories that are represented in Australia’s collective heritage. Collaboration is fundamental to this success. Organisations nominate and support the digitisation of content important to their communities, which in turn increases usage. This paper examines both the business and technical aspects of the digitisation process. It also explores recent improvements to the process for both Partners and Trove users. These include a new self-service Partner dashboard for better metrics, enhanced search capabilities and improved opportunities for community engagement

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VALA2020 Session 10 Barker

Wikipedia and Library Collections

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 10
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:45 – 15:15

Geoff Barker
  • Senior Curator, State Library of New South Wales

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VALA2020 Session 10 Barker Paper 267KB
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The State Library of New South Wales has worked on Wikimedia related projects for over seven years and was one of the first libraries globally to create a formal policy integrating Wikipedia into its organisational workflow. This paper discusses current Wikimedia projects managed by the Library, and introduces new directions for library engagement with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata platforms

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VALA2020 Session 10 Williams

Will the people that follow in your footsteps know why you were wearing those shoes? Documenting your digitisation and digital collections processes

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 10
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:20 – 15:50

Kimberley Williams
  • Digital Curation Specialist
  • University of Sydney

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Knowledge sharing is central to the way libraries see themselves as institutions. We are content creators, provide high-resolution digital surrogates to our clients, and open up access to our unique, valuable and special collections in a way we have never been able to before. We can digitally reunite our items across the globe and let people play and experiment with our collections. That said, we also need to remember to leave contextual information for those that follow in our footsteps as to why we made the decisions we made, and how exactly we went about creating our collections.

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VALA2020 Session 11 Mercieca

Open Educational Resources – who has the role of adoption and adaptation of OERs?

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 11
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:45 – 15:15

Paul Mercieca
  • IM Program Manager
  • RMIT University
Laki Sideris
  • Product Development Manager
  • Informit, RMIT Training

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The development of Open Educational Resources (OERs) aims to support educational material that can be shared and reused under a creative commons licence. Emerging models recognise that OERs are not just resources that can be located and simply included in course work, but are resources that can be modified, changed and then re-shared for use by others. The management of OERs is often supported by library services, but what is the current practice of the academic community? This paper discusses issues drawn from interviews with academics from a university case environment, and this information can assist libraries in developing policy on OER management.

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VALA2020 Session 11 McQuillen

Innovative machine learning as a positive driver for digital disruption through automation in systematic review management: a review of available tools and their utilisation in Australia

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 11
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:25 – 15:50

Sarah McQuillen
  • Academic Librarian, Division of Health Sciences
  • University of South Australia Library
Kasthuri Anandasivam
  • Academic Support Librarian, Division of Health Sciences
  • University of South Australia Library

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Librarians at the University of South Australia (UniSA) investigated systematic review (SR) software that incorporate machine learning technologies. The aim was to compare the capabilities of the University’s current tool ‘Covidence’ with alternatives used in Australia, to improve efficiencies during SR workflows. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to identify over 180 tools, many designed to accelerate a single task only. Covidence and ‘Distiller’ were found to offer the broadest range of features. As Covidence has been more widely adopted by Australian libraries, the authors conclude that ongoing access to Covidence is useful for cross-institutional SR conduct in Australia.

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