Friday, April 19, 2013

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.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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

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
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

Monday, April 8, 2013

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.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

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