All right – here we have a link to the introduction slides from Roxanne ...
... as well as the link to Go8 study ...
... and John Murrell’s presentation (including the presentation transcript)...
...and more to come!!
ProActive Blog
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
The first question ...
Hi everyone – we hope you enjoyed the Valuing Libraries Symposium J
After attending the symposium yesterday, and having had a little time to reflect, what do you think you will do next?
Me? Well I’ll be doing some research looking at what advocacy resources are available - in particular which ones need to be created for my organisation. And then having a long and interesting discussion with my supervisor J
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Value of Libraries Symposium
Hi Everyone and Welcome to the Value of Libraries Symposium,
Over the next week, starting today, we will be posting questions to think about (and discuss), reviews of as well as links to additional information on this topic links.
And the links that you might want to look at today are ...
... from John Murrell – ‘Dollars, Sense and Public Libraries: The landmark study of the socio-economic value of Victorian public libraries’
http://www.plvn.net.au/sites/default/files/20110318%20SL_PublicReport_LoRes_FINAL_0.pdf
http://www.plvn.net.au/sites/default/files/DSPL_TechRep_pt1_FINAL_0.pdf
http://www.plvn.net.au/sites/default/files/DSPL_TechRep_pt2_FINAL_0.pdf
http://www.plvn.net.au/sites/default/files/DSPL_TechRep_pt1_FINAL_0.pdf
http://www.plvn.net.au/sites/default/files/DSPL_TechRep_pt2_FINAL_0.pdf
... from Kym Holden - Federal Librarians Are Trending and Are Future Ready!
Our other speakers today include:
- FLICC Competencies for Federal Librarians
- ALIA Special Libraries Survey Report
Our other speakers today include:
· Vanessa Little
· Rozanne Frost
Thankyou and we hope you enjoy this event.
ALIA ACT & Symposium Organisers.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Valuing libraries symposium 31 May 2012
Value of Libraries Symposium
a full day workshop presented by ALIA ACTive and AGLIN
Date: Thursday 31 May 2012
Time: 9am to 4.30 pm
Venue: University House, Australian National University
Have you thought about what is the value proposition for your clients?
This symposium will address the hot topic of understanding and aligning our library services to the values that can be provided to our clients and stakeholders.
Every organisation is facing financial challenges. Libraries need to focus on what they do that makes a difference, make changes to deliver that and communicate that they are doing that – including through evaluation, statistics. Isn’t not about what you did in the past or how big the collection is, it’s about what makes a difference!
Please find attached a flyer
a full day workshop presented by ALIA ACTive and AGLIN
Date: Thursday 31 May 2012
Time: 9am to 4.30 pm
Venue: University House, Australian National University
Have you thought about what is the value proposition for your clients?
- In these times of financial restraint how can you position your library to deliver the services that really matter to your organisation?
- How can you be a part of your organisation that makes a difference and communicates your value?
- Do you want to survive?
- If you have been thinking about these issues this is the event for you.
This symposium will address the hot topic of understanding and aligning our library services to the values that can be provided to our clients and stakeholders.
Every organisation is facing financial challenges. Libraries need to focus on what they do that makes a difference, make changes to deliver that and communicate that they are doing that – including through evaluation, statistics. Isn’t not about what you did in the past or how big the collection is, it’s about what makes a difference!
Please find attached a flyer
and registration form for the symposium.
Registration form
Registration form
Friday, March 30, 2012
Vale David Barron
David Barron was Canberra Public Librarian from 1979 to 1994, and prior to that held senior positions in the National Library of Australia and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library. He was NLA Liaison Officer in London for three years and represented NLA/Australia on a number of international bodies. He was Vice-President and President of the ACT Branch of ALIA in 1982 and 1983. A full obituary, written by Marie Sexton with assistance from Jenny Gleeson and David Wardle, appeared in the Canberra Times, March 28 2012, page 10.
Roxanne Missingham now ANU Librarian
Ms Roxanne Missingham is the Australian National University Librarian (Chief Scholarly Information Officer). Roxanne took up her appointment on 14 February 2012. She was previously the Parliamentary Librarian for the Parliament of Australia, and prior to that was an Assistant Director-General (Resource Sharing Division) at the National Library of Australia for five years. Roxanne has over twenty years of senior management experience in Australian public sector libraries, and brings with her a wealth of knowledge of enabling technology to provide scholarly infomation. She has also written extensively on the role of contemporary libraries.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Handwritten Exhibition Christmas Function 2011
2011 ended with a fabulous get together of ALIA groups and members at the National Library of Australia. 60 attended – a testament to the strength of our profession in the ACT.
The URLS convenor Aileen Weir at the behest of other groups members agreed to organise a joint Christmas function at the National Library on 7 December to celebrate another year of professional workshops and events. Aileen organised a great function and by opening up the Handwritten exhibition to us afterhours got a very good turnout of 60 librarians in all. With the help of Cathy Burton, the tables in the Ferguson Room for supper were very Christmassy with decorations and a array of festive fare to temp all of us into celebrate through eating and drinking as well as talking and sharing information.
It was wonderful to see such a gathering of librarians in the one place from all sectors such as the ACT Group, University and Research libraries, Library technicians and the One Person Library group. All groups were well represented and contributed to the festive fare. It was a wonderful to see the Handwritten exhibition to view handwriting samples of many famous historical individuals such as Copernicus, Martin Luther and Einstein. You read the biographies of such people but what brings them to life for real is to see how they worked on their rough drafts and you could in some cases see the thought processes behind the writing. and how they actually formed their letters. What I found interesting was that most wrote in a very clear copperplate hand or at the very least a legible hand unlike my own illegible scribble . It made me wonder how much copying work many had done as children to achieve a legible clear hand. I was also pleased to see several had rather illegible handwriting and therefore to know that others have failings like the rest of us such as scribbly writing so not even intellectual giants are free of imperfection.
We want to thank Cathy Burton and Aileen Weir for doing a sterling job in organising such a pleasant end of year event for all us and arranging for us to view the Handwritten exhibition at our leisure without the crowds I suspect it will draw. We also want to thank Kym Holden of AGLIN as well as ALIAActive, Beth Rogers of OPALS and all of the others who contributed to our festive fare for the function, it was appreciated.
We also acknowledge that such functions only happen because other library professionals give of their time to make such events a reality.
Karna O'Dea
ALIAActive convenor
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