After a week chock full of wonderful conference joy at VALA, it was a further joy and a bit of a relief to be able to attend Library Camp Australia 2012, at the Unversity of Melbourne on February 12th. Here are my assorted notes from the course of the day. 1st session – Jason Griffey …
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Feb 07
Libraries & the Post-PC era – Jason Griffey – VALA 2012
Steve Jobs 2010 – analogy to cars – we have had PCs for 30 years, but now our needs are being fulfilled by other devices – pads and smart phones for example. Once upon a time………… there was a princess, the princess loved books, but the princess also loved computers – enamoured with the digital, …
Sep 15
Information flow
I am very big on efficiency, including ensuring that our information flow from our library is used as effectively as possible. Our library has five blogs, four of which are hosted by Blogger. To make the most of this content, to ensure that people are seeing it when they don’t know about the blogs (and …
May 17
Emerging Technology Forum 2011 Geelong
I was fortunate to be able to attend the 3rd annual Emerging Technology Forum 2011 in Geelong, which is a collaboration between Deakin University, Geelong Regional Libraries and the Gordon Institute of TAFE on Tuesday 17th May. A long way to go, but well worth the travel. Stephen Abram – The future: Frankenbooks, social collaboration …
Nov 01
LibMark Digital Marketing and Libraries Pt 2
I began the afternoon session with a presentation on Web 2.0 and Marketing in Libraries. Unfortunately for the organising commitment, they had a second last minute cancellation, but were fortunate enough to have a couple of people step up and show what they were doing at their library. Danny was first. Darebin Libraries Website – …
Jul 29
Blogging after all these years
Its my fourth anniversary of blogging, my blogiversary. On the 29th July 2005, I posted my first entry to Connecting Librarian, at that time at blogger.com. Four years later and wow, what a ride! I’ve been thinking about blogging for a while now. Even considered stopping altogether, but couldn’t bring myself to do it. Although …
Jul 27
A blogging year in review
Its my 3rd blogaversary and I’ve been trying to think about what to post about to celebrate and decided its a good time to review the past 12 months of professional activity. So here’s what I consider are my major achievements professionally, both inside and outside of work. This is more for me I guess, …
Feb 19
Learning 2.0 Week 8 – Online Applications & Tools
This week its web-based apps and although the program directed us to use Zoho writer, I took the option of going with Google Docs instead. The reason? I have been having enough trouble keeping up with all the various logins and passwords, but with Google Docs I use the same login and password for Blogger …
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- ALIA Online 2019 – Day 3 March 2, 2019Day 3 – Thursday 14th February 2019 Revitalising first nations languages: keeping culture strong in the digital world – Terry Janke Estimate that there are only 20 Indigenous languages being used in every day speech. 90% of languages are endangered and because they are an oral race, there is limits to what is written […]Michelle McLean
- ALIA Online 2019 – Day 2 March 2, 2019Day 2 – Wednesday 13th February 2019 Connecting with users and enriching the library experience in the digital age – Carla Hayden (Librarian of Congress) The importance of reading can not be underplayed. In USA history, African Americans who learnt to read were severely punished, as were the people who taught them to read. “Palaces […]Michelle McLean
- ALIA Online 2019 – Day 1 March 2, 2019Day 1 – Tuesday 12 February 2019 Genevieve Bell – Wonder in the age of AI: art, creativity and possibility SIRAC, the first computer stored memory, began its life at Sydney, but then most of its life at Melbourne University. It taught an entire generation about computers and it was used to process data about […]Michelle McLean
- 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