Mini-conference 2012

ALIA Queensland Mini-Conference 2012

'Innovate, Evolve, Create'

Wednesday 21st November 2012 

9am-4pm Brisbane Square Library.

Following on from our successful 2011 mini-conference 'People Power' ALIA Queensland present the 'Innovate, Evolve, Create' mini-conference with keynote speaker Kate Davis. 

Kate will reflect on personal creativity and the impact that developing our creative selves can have in our workplaces. We’ll talk about what it means to be innovative, what it means to be creative, and the relationship between innovation and creativity. Find out how you can pin, pot, print or paint your way to realising your creative potential in your workplace.

Complete the registration form now and return to ALIA Head Office to secure your place. 

Registrations close Thursday, 15 November, 2012.  ALIA members $55, non-members $75.

Program

Time
9:00 - 9:30	Registration & Welcome coffee
9:30 -9:40	Welcome
9:40 -10:20	Keynote - Kate Davis - Six impossible things before breakfast
10:20 -10:45	Morning tea
10:45 -12:30	Session 1 - Presentations and Discussion*
12:30 -13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:30	Session 2 - Presentations and Discussion*
15:30 - 15:35	Wrap up and close
15:35 - 16:00	Afternoon Tea

Presentation details

Keynote

Kate Davis - Six Impossible things before breakfast

Session 1

   

I’d forgotton just how useful we are!: One librarian’s involvement in a multimedia repository implementation - Ellen Thompson - QUT (30 mins)

The QUT Media Warehouse project has implemented a repository to manage and make accessible the vast array of multimedia content generated at QUT, for repurposing in the teaching and learning, research and marketing contexts as well as the creative process. This project is an example of the changing role of the professional librarian and the opportunities available for librarians to capitalise on their valuable and transferable skills. The ‘hard’ skills which a professional librarian brings to such a project include expertise in metadata structure, content description, search interface functionality and design, rights management, useability and user documentation.  But librarians are also ‘people persons,’ and often it is the ‘soft’ skills which are equally if not more important to a project such as this. This presentation overviews the implementation so far, highlighting the role of the librarian as well as the learning’s and opportunities afforded from working in this space. A demonstration of the live system is included.

Blazing a trail with Edublogs and online discovery - Linda Denty - Emmaus College (15mins)

  
Have you thought of setting up a blog for your library, whether it be a public, school, or specialist library?  It can be for news and events, or it can be for reading and reviews.  Our experience was one of trying to get information out while our library was in disarray and much reduced due to building work, and proved to be a wonderful way to advertise new books and put up reviews.  The blog for staff involves my Wonderful Wednesday Weblinks where I share all the best websites and information that I consider might be useful to our staff and this is very popular.  It is not hard to do and is quite manageable to administer.

Super Social Media Mastery - Tegan Darnell - UQ (30mins)

I will talk Social Media.  Not just to say that "all the cool kids are doing it and so should we", but to show how to do it so that it has maximum effect. It is not enough to just have an account. The tool is not effective without super social media mastery.  So, how do you get support to invest time (and therefore money) in creating and maintaining relationships and networks via social media? Creating "the willing" is the first step.

To tweet or not to tweet... Which Social Media platform is right for you
What do you want to achieve? Can you keep it up?
Who is going to monitor the site? Who can post?
Why write a social media policy?
How do you create "social capital" so that you get a "return on your investment"?

In a world where anyone can post anything online, libraries cannot participate in social media without letting go of the idea that they can control everything that is said about them. Often, libraries are part of larger institutions and bound by their rules. How do we push the boundaries? How do we let go of the idea of the library as a "dispenser of knowledge" and join the dialogue?

Taking a long leap into data management and bibliometrics - Jane Smeathers - UQ (15 mins)

The ever-changing university research environment constantly produces new challenges for the academic library service. The University of Queensland Library (UQL) has evolved in order to ensure that UQL continues to support research excellence at UQ by creating a researcher focused service model.  The Scholarly Publishing and Digitisation Service (SPaDS) consists of a number of specialists whose role is to provide strategic direction, advice, training and support in the field of citation metrics and in data management.  The SPaDS team is at the forefront of the application of bibliometrics to describe research performance of individuals, research groups, organisational units and whole-of-university.  Similarly, the SPaDS Research Data Collection team are tasked with the role of developing a service to assist with the management of data.  To develop these two services within UQ Library, SPaDS provides innovative training to Research Information Service librarians.  This presentation will present the different levels of training and discuss how it was implemented. Most importantly, presenting a reflection of the evolution of the training and how it has been developed to engage librarians to work in a new and exciting area of data management and metrics.

Session 2

Pinning Queensland’s history - Margaret Warren - SLQ (30 mins)

The State Library of Queensland is contributing content to Historypin, a UK based photo sharing site that focuses on placing photographs on a world map and sharing stories that make the connections between people and places over time. Historypin.com was beta-launched in June 2010, and launched globally in July 2011.  Historypin contacted State Library of Queensland in January 2012 as part of a global call for content around the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Following this contribution of content in Historypin, the library developed a customised State Library of Queensland Historypin channel, new functionality released in March 2012. The purpose of Historypin is to help people to come together from across different generations, cultures and places, around the history of their families and neighbourhoods, improving personal relations and building stronger communities.  This presentation will discuss how State Library and Indigenous Knowledge Centres are using Historypin to connect communities with their history and facilitate sharing in the development and creation of Queensland stories, knowledge and culture; and address ways libraries could capitalise on functionality in Historypin to engage with their own communities.   

Co-creating Queensland’s memory - Rachael Browning & Louise Denoon - SLQ (15mins)

The State Library of Queensland has finalised its new Content Strategy.  This 10 page document replaces the 190 page Collection Development Policy as the guiding collection management tool designed to enable the State Library to meet the challenges presented by the new collecting environment.  In developing this Strategy staff faced the difficult questions of collection management, limited space and budgets, changing client expectations and the challenges of both physical and digital format.  This presentation will look at the  journey for staff in activating the new Content Strategy.  

The Competency Convergence: Library and Museum Professionals- Julia Garnett - NewGrad (15mins)

Research conducted by Paul F. Marty indicates that library and museum professionals have developed parallel skills and knowledge. This presentation will look at the information roles of GLAM professionals, and uncover the capabilities that are common across sectors.  What can we learn from one another? Where roles overlap, could information professionals shift into other GLAM positions? Whether we’re working with digital information or physical collections, institutions are evolving along with the needs of our users. This paper invites discussion and further study of the core competences behind quality information service delivery.

Redefining the whitebox and reshaping collections: Floodlines - Linda Pitt - SLQ (30 minutes)

iPads, QR Codes, augmented reality and smart phones have become common tools in the public space, this presentation provides you with accessible examples on how these technology resources can be incorporated into your semi-permanent collection exhibitions, in house curated exhibition/displays and increase accessibility and interpretation to your collection.  The presentation will draw on the successes and reflections of the Queensland State Library exhibition Floodlines an exhibition that shares the communities contemporary and historical memories of Queensland’s floods — making sense of the past and celebrating the spirit of recovery. In using technology the exhibitions recovers, remembers, reflects and pays tribute to the resilience and community spirit of Queenslanders, in the face of devastating natural disasters of the summer of 2010–11 through augmented reality and interactive projections and collection initiatives

LGBTQ Collections in Public Libraries - Kysira Fairbairn - NewGrad (15mins)

The presentation LGBTQ Collections in Australian Public Libraries will examine a project researching Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning resources in the largest public library services in each Australian state and territory. LGBTQ peoples have diverse information needs, from seeking like sexualities in fiction to finding nonfiction on ‘coming out’ or sexual health, but there is little literature focusing on LGBTQ resources in Australian libraries.  This 15 minute presentation will discuss the rationale for the research, and broach the question of which and to what extent do libraries have dedicated LGBTQ collections. This presentation hopes to demonstrate the evolution of LGBTQ people’s representation in Australian libraries. A silenced section of community that often turned to the library for their information needs, some libraries now have dedicated or marked collections. The presentation will finally ask how LGBTQ library collections will evolve to suit the community.