Report on SCHOLARLY READING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PRESENTATION BY PROFESSOR CAROL TENOPIR,

SCHOLARLY READING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PRESENTATION 

BY PROFESSOR CAROL TENOPIR, CHANCELLOR'S PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE. 

This was a fascinating presentation – Carol’s research spans decades and the comparative data collected over time provides, thanks to carol’s thoughtful analysis, many great insights into reading, publishing and the role of libraries.

Thanks to Charles Sturt University, the University of New South Wales, Australian National University and John Metcalfe Memorial Foundation for bringing Carol to Australia and supporting the research.

A short summary follows.

Canberra AGLIN/ALIA/SLA Draft Joint library program 2013

MONTH	EVENT
Friday 12 April  12:30 – 1:30 pm	Professor Carol Tenopir, Venue: Headley Bull Theatre no.1, The Australian National University
May Information Awareness Month 20-26 May  21 May Friday 31 May, 4.30-5.30pm	Library and Information Week ACT Library technician breakfast Celebrate Library technician day with breakfast at the Pork Barrel Cafe at Kingston A talk and tour of the  ANU’s National Computational Infrastructure with Professor Lindsay Botten National Computational Infrastructure Building (143), Cnr Garran and Ward Roads, ANU Campus
Thursday July 4, 2013, 7.00pm	Winter dinner Venue: Scholar restaurant, Woolleys Street Dickson
July 3, 2013	E-books issues round table discussion Venue: Gunghalin Library
July 30, 2013	AGLIN Forum  Connecting Value Venue
September 4 2013 12:30-pm Sept 10, Tuesday 2013 5:30pm Friday Sept 20  2013 full day seminar	Post IFLA roundup (Aileen Weir)  – National Library Ferguson room  ALIA ACT National Advisory Council  National Library Ferguson room  Libraries and Social Media –  National Library conference room
October 30 – 1 November 2013	ALIA National Library & Information Technicians conference Venue: National Library
November 2013	Future skills for the library profession – discussion and presentations Venue: National Library
December 4, 2013 dta	End of year celebration Venue: National Arboretum Copyright workshop

ALIA's response to the Big Data Strategy issues paper

The Australian Library and Information Association strongly applauds the move by the Government to provide access to its many data sets, while understanding and respecting data security and privacy issues.

The data held by Commonwealth Government agencies is enormously important to Australians and access will provide significant benefits to citizen engagement and responsiveness. Greater use of data can contribute to national productivity, development of innovative services, education, research and other social benefits. In many ways the government is custodian of data that belongs to Australians, and should consider data management policy in this light.

Maximum benefit from increased availability of data can only be achieved if the data (government and other, such as that held by universities) is aggregated and made available with significant computer resources for data manipulation and analysis. We encourage you to consider architectures and access in light of the need for interoperability and aggregation.

Read more at ALIA's response to the Big Data Strategy issues paper

Australian Government big data strategy issues paper 2013

The Australian Government CIO, Glen Archer, released the Big data strategy issues paper in March.  You can find the launch post and link to the paper at http://agimo.gov.au/2013/03/15/released-big-data-strategy-issues-paper/

ALIA has been a strong advocate of public access to information and welcomes consideration by the commonwealth government of big data issues including access, privacy and security.

The Commonwealth Government owns data that is extremely important for citizens, specific communities, research industry, education and delivery of government services. While there has been significant discussion across some agencies and within agencies there has not be a holistic approach to issues around big data and its management, particularly access.  The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has produced and excellent set or principles and this paper takes on the challenges set by the principles.

We encourage you to read the paper – ALIA will post a response to the paper shortly.

Roxanne Missingham

University Librarian (Chief Scholarly Information Services)

The Australian National University