Building a Framework for Semantic Cultural Heritage Data – Valentine Charles Valentine works with the Europeana Foundation, which is the central portal for cultural heritage in Europe. Europeana has a huge range of items from European countries, including content from and related to Australia. The European Library was the model on which Europeana was based, …
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Feb 09
VALA 2016 – Day One – R. David Lankes, Lee Rainie and so much more
Always take away great thoughts and ideas from VALA – here’s what I got from Day 1. Librarianship: saving the world one community at a time – Dr R David Lankes Technology advances have made the world a smaller place. Expectmorelibrary.com. Not all is well in the world and librarians have a part to …
Mar 22
Renew, rethink, revitalize – a mini conference at the State Library of Victoria
I was one of the 270 public library staff who attended this great event, created and hosted by the State Library of Victoria. Besides the three keynotes, the rest of the presentations were by library staff doing interesting things in their libraries. They were all awesome. Here are my notes: Renew, rethink and revitalise mini …
Oct 29
Leading lights – SLV – Friday 25th October 2013
Leading Lights was a seminar showcasing winners from the State Library of Victoria’s Ramsay and Reid Scholarships and from the Pierre Gorman Award. I was the first presenter, talking about my study tour of 2007 and how much things had changed since then. (See the slides on my Presentation page). Hereafter are my notes taken …
Oct 20
Presentation skills training
I am doing a presentation at the State Library of Victoria this week and in preparation for this, they offered me and a number of other speakers for this and other SLV events, the opportunity to attend this training. Knowing I will be giving more presentations in future, as well as training sessions, I took …
Jun 27
Blog June 2013 – Day 27 – Does your workspace reflect you and/or your job?
I was wandering back to my desk today and noticed how it really was a reflection of both my job and myself. The desk itself is very tidy and organised, like me, and the things that surrounded it were local history items, two iMacs in the middle of configuration, training notes for an eBay seminar …
Jun 20
Blog June 2013 – Day 20 – The ‘menial’ tasks
In libraries, as in many jobs, there are menial tasks that need to be done. Jobs that seem trivial, are repetitive, need no special skill or qualifications, but need to be done. These types of jobs can be the ones we try to avoid, because we want to focus on the more interesting, the more …
Jun 18
Blog June 2013 – Day 18 – Holy Grail of Librarianship
One of my colleagues was excitedly telling me about a delivery she was waiting on, a limited edition re-creation of the first ever Melways Street Directory (Melbourne). Melways, which is a Melbourne institution was first published in 1976 and my colleague is a local history buff, so this is pure gold to her. (and I …
Jun 17
Blog June 2013 – Day 17 – Patience – a vital library skill
I’m not a patient person generally. I want things done and I want it done now. But I have learned the value in patience in life in general and in the library as well. Much as I want all the new things, changes, adaptations, removals etc to happen at the time that they are all …
Jun 19
Objective and subjective
Was reading a newspaper article about how some pharmacists are refusing to dispense the pill, because it goes against their personal beliefs. An interesting dilemma. Although our similar dilemma is not life threatening, librarians have to deal with this every day. We lend out titles that go against our beliefs, we give access to information …
Connecting Librarian
- VALA 2018 – Day Three – Thursday 15 February – Disruption Day February 17, 2018And finally – great finish to a great conference. ————————————————————– Keynote 5 – The C Equation: Content + Connection + Community = Contented Customers – David Lee King Content – libraries have traditional forms of content, but also more cutting-edge forms. Some examples are ukuleles for loan, guitars, electronic EDM devices, checking things out to […]Michelle McLean
- VALA 2018 – Day Two – Wednesday 14 February – Data Day February 17, 2018And here are my notes from Day 2 – not including of course, the presentation that I gave with my manager Daniel Lewis. ————————————————————————————– VALA Conference 2018 – Wednesday 13 February Plenary 3 – Linked Data Liminality – Matt Miller Matt is a Metadata Librarian, programmer/developer, adjutant at a library school, worked in public and […]Michelle McLean
- VALA 2018 – Day One – Tuesday 13 February – GLAM Day February 17, 2018Wow, it’s been two years since I posted here. How do I know? My last posts were about VALA 2016. And now I am back with my VALA 2018 notes. I must post here more often. 🙂 Anyway, it was another great conference and it was my honour to be on the program committee to […]Michelle McLean
- VALA 2016 – Day Three – Nancy Proctor, Karen Lauritson and so much more February 14, 2016On Day Three I both chaired a session and presented in another, so there are less notes, but I hope you still find them helpful/useful. The museum as startup – Nancy Proctor (Baltimore Museum of Art) Startup – human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty – […]Michelle McLean
- VALA 2016 – Day Two – Valentine Charles, Kevin Fordham and so much more February 10, 2016Building a Framework for Semantic Cultural Heritage Data – Valentine Charles Valentine works with the Europeana Foundation, which is the central portal for cultural heritage in Europe. Europeana has a huge range of items from European countries, including content from and related to Australia. The European Library was the model on which Europeana was based, […]Michelle McLean
- VALA 2016 – Day One – R. David Lankes, Lee Rainie and so much more February 9, 2016Always take away great thoughts and ideas from VALA – here’s what I got from Day 1. Librarianship: saving the world one community at a time – Dr R David Lankes Technology advances have made the world a smaller place. Expectmorelibrary.com. Not all is well in the world and librarians have a part to […]Michelle McLean
- Leadership Learning Forum – State Library of Victoria – Marianne Broadbent June 18, 2015I was fortunate enough to attend the most recent of these annual events, with guest speaker Marianne Broadbent. She was a very thought provoking speaker. Hope you get as much out of my notes as I did from attending the session. Marianne Broadbent – Implementing 21st Leadership at Multiple Levels Good skills to have are […]Michelle McLean
- Digital Literacy Seminar – Public Libraries Victoria Network (PLVN) June 11, 2015Here are my notes from the PLVN ICT Special Interest Group Digital Literacy Seminar, held in Melbourne on 3rd June 2015. Hugh Rundle – MC Victorian Public Libraries: Our Future, Our Skills Research Report 2014 – http://www.plvn.net.au/sites/default/files/Skills%20Audit%20Report%20FINAL.pdf. 98% of libraries completed survey, 79% of managers. Good basis for skills audit. Public Libraries 2030 came out […]Michelle McLean
- End of an era – print reference March 24, 2015I have had responsibility for our library’s print reference collection. on and off since 1996. When I first took on this role in 1996, our largest branch – which was both the local and regional reference collection, had 85 shelves of reference books. I’m talking full shelves, 2 metre high shelving and taking up a […]Michelle McLean
- Renew, rethink, revitalize – a mini conference at the State Library of Victoria March 22, 2015I was one of the 270 public library staff who attended this great event, created and hosted by the State Library of Victoria. Besides the three keynotes, the rest of the presentations were by library staff doing interesting things in their libraries. They were all awesome. Here are my notes: Renew, rethink and revitalise mini […]Michelle McLean