Across the country, ALIA has been recognising the long and devoted service of its members.
Last Wednesday, ALIA celebrated its New South Wales members at an awards presentation at the State Library of NSW.
More than 60 individuals received gold or red pins to signify more than 25 years of ALIA membership.
You can read more about the incredible contributions to the profession made by award recipients at this ALIA news piece.
-CW
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Thursday, 27 November 2014
Monday, 2 June 2014
SLNSW tour- ALIA Sydney event Saturday 21 June
ALIA Sydney is delighted to present an exclusive behind the scenes Tour of the State Library of New South Wales.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia and also a world-leading library and centre of digital excellence. The Library’s extraordinary collections document the heritage of Australia and Oceania and are one of the State’s most valuable assets. By building, preserving and delivering its collections, including today’s born digital materials, the Library enables Australians to interrogate our past and imagine our future.
Join us on this rare opportunity to take a behind the scenes look of such a prestigious Library.
Where: State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney
When: Saturday 21 June 2014, 10am for a 10:30 start - Meeting in the Foyer near the Library Shop.
Cost: $5 members or $7 non-members (not including lunch)
Lunch will be at a nearby pub/café following the tour.
Register your interest by emailing: aliasydneygroup@gmail.com.
Get in quick as spaces are running out fast!
-Gabby
Saturday, 29 June 2013
Event Recap: Social Media in Libraries
Last Thursday Mylee Joseph, Project Leader, Innovation Project at the State Library of New South Wales, gave a fantastic talk at Customs House for a City of Sydney event about social media in libraries.
Mylee talked about the three opportunities for libraries with social media: discovery, engagement and collecting.
One of the attendees, Joachim Cohen, has put together a Storify of the event, which is well worth checking out. Mylee will also make her presentation available on Slideshare.
Below are just a few highlights from my notes:
Commander Chris Hadfield's use of Twitter when he was on the International Space Station was historical in many ways. There were some great moments of engagement, such as William Shatner tweeting to ask if he was really in space, not to mention his version of Space Oddity, which had 22,630 retweets.
He also used reddit successfully. But Mylee emphasised that libraries shouldn't try to get into everything. Instead, choose a platform that suitable for the material you want to share, and is something your target audience uses.
For example, Google Hangouts can be great for author events, especially if they're in a different time zone. The interview can be held live on air and recorded for later viewing on YouTube.
Social media is ephemeral, so libraries have a place in keeping this record for future generations.
The Vatican archived Pope Benedict XVI's tweets, showing the importance of this record. The archived tweets can be seen alongside the Twitter feed of current Pope Francis' tweets.
There were 500,000 tweets about last week's #spill. Collecting so much information can be difficult, but could be useful to researchers.
Flickr's The Commons is a way for cultural institutions to make their collections discoverable: the State Library has 1795 images, with well over 7.73 million views and 8933 people connected as contacts.
The Historypin app is being used heavily by the State Library as a way of allowing people to view historical photos of places where they are.
Creating or updating Wikipedia entries using the State Libraries holdings is a great way of sharing information about significant people or events. Two examples are an article on the Aboriginal Australian World War I soldier Douglas Grant, and an article on the recent DIY rainbow crossing movement in Sydney.
The State Library has had much success with Pinterest- their most popular board is HSC: Researching beyond Google.
Mylee advised libraries to be careful with what they repin- try to find the original source (and consider asking the original artists if you can pin their work).
When asked about the people needed, Mylee emphasised the need for a team-based approach. The marketing team are good at promoting events, but there also has to be people listening and (quickly) responding to questions and comments. At the State Library there is a 'coalition' of people authorised to respond via Twitter on behalf of their section.
Amy Croft
@amyecroft
Mylee talked about the three opportunities for libraries with social media: discovery, engagement and collecting.
One of the attendees, Joachim Cohen, has put together a Storify of the event, which is well worth checking out. Mylee will also make her presentation available on Slideshare.
Below are just a few highlights from my notes:
Engagement
Commander Chris Hadfield's use of Twitter when he was on the International Space Station was historical in many ways. There were some great moments of engagement, such as William Shatner tweeting to ask if he was really in space, not to mention his version of Space Oddity, which had 22,630 retweets.
He also used reddit successfully. But Mylee emphasised that libraries shouldn't try to get into everything. Instead, choose a platform that suitable for the material you want to share, and is something your target audience uses.
For example, Google Hangouts can be great for author events, especially if they're in a different time zone. The interview can be held live on air and recorded for later viewing on YouTube.
Collection
Social media is ephemeral, so libraries have a place in keeping this record for future generations.
The Vatican archived Pope Benedict XVI's tweets, showing the importance of this record. The archived tweets can be seen alongside the Twitter feed of current Pope Francis' tweets.
There were 500,000 tweets about last week's #spill. Collecting so much information can be difficult, but could be useful to researchers.
Discovery
Flickr's The Commons is a way for cultural institutions to make their collections discoverable: the State Library has 1795 images, with well over 7.73 million views and 8933 people connected as contacts.
The Historypin app is being used heavily by the State Library as a way of allowing people to view historical photos of places where they are.
Creating or updating Wikipedia entries using the State Libraries holdings is a great way of sharing information about significant people or events. Two examples are an article on the Aboriginal Australian World War I soldier Douglas Grant, and an article on the recent DIY rainbow crossing movement in Sydney.
More Engagement
The State Library has had much success with Pinterest- their most popular board is HSC: Researching beyond Google.
Mylee advised libraries to be careful with what they repin- try to find the original source (and consider asking the original artists if you can pin their work).
When asked about the people needed, Mylee emphasised the need for a team-based approach. The marketing team are good at promoting events, but there also has to be people listening and (quickly) responding to questions and comments. At the State Library there is a 'coalition' of people authorised to respond via Twitter on behalf of their section.
Amy Croft
@amyecroft
Monday, 21 January 2013
ALIA's Year of Renewal
Happy New Year everyone - and welcome to 2013!
This year is going to be ALIA's Year of Renewal, with many exciting changes planned.
Curious? Executive Director Sue McKerracher will be meeting with members on Tuesday 22 January to talk about what's planned and answer your questions.
There's still time to register!
When?
5.45pm - 7.15pm
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Where?
Macquarie Room
State Library of New South Wales
Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Using an online game for professional development
A few years ago this whole idea would have sounded very suspect, playing, in a professional capacity, to learn. Now it is not unusual. Total engagement by Byron Reeves & J. Leighton Read is an excellent publication for providing ideas and examples of learning through play in a workplace.
The scientists lead the way with a conference in World of Warcraft in 2008. World of Warcraft is an online subscription game played by over eleven million people. The scientists chose it for their conference because it has been used as an environment for research and they wanted to discuss their research ideas further. It seemed appropriate if they were talking about research in online games to use an online game as the environment. You can read about their adventures Slaying monsters for science, in Online worlds : convergence of the real and the virtual / edited by William Sims Bainbridge and on their wiki.
In 2010 the library followed. The decision to hold a library seminar in June of 2010 in World of Warcraft was taken before it was realised that the scientists had already done this. The seminar (following on from one held at the State Library of NSW) was held in a game to help people think about the possibilities. It is different.
Information and a slideshow were provided to new players (and there were quite a few people who had never played an online game who participated).
The speakers included Liz Danforth who is well known for writing the "Games, Gamers, and Gaming" column for Library Journal, Scott Nicholson, Associate Professor for Syracuse University School of Information Studies, Adam Beck from Central Arkansas Library System talking about how his library uses World of Warcraft, and Peggy Sheehy on WoW in Schools (Peggy was a gracious late inclusion).
You can view a transcript of the seminar. World of Warcraft has an excellent logging function so that is it is not too complex to produce transcripts of discussions.
From the feedback for this seminar I decided to organise a series of talks. These take place in World of Warcraft every six to eight weeks and feature a mix of librarians and educators. The next speakers on 15 July will be Landon K Pirius and Gill Creel , co authors of Reflections on play, pedagogy, and World of Warcraft, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 3, 2010.
Transcripts of all previous talks are available on the Games and libraries wiki.
If you would like to participate in one of these talks, have a look at this slide show...
...then read the other information here.
Please contact me if you would like any further information about this professional development series.
Ellen Forsyth
The scientists lead the way with a conference in World of Warcraft in 2008. World of Warcraft is an online subscription game played by over eleven million people. The scientists chose it for their conference because it has been used as an environment for research and they wanted to discuss their research ideas further. It seemed appropriate if they were talking about research in online games to use an online game as the environment. You can read about their adventures Slaying monsters for science, in Online worlds : convergence of the real and the virtual / edited by William Sims Bainbridge and on their wiki.
In 2010 the library followed. The decision to hold a library seminar in June of 2010 in World of Warcraft was taken before it was realised that the scientists had already done this. The seminar (following on from one held at the State Library of NSW) was held in a game to help people think about the possibilities. It is different.
Information and a slideshow were provided to new players (and there were quite a few people who had never played an online game who participated).
The speakers included Liz Danforth who is well known for writing the "Games, Gamers, and Gaming" column for Library Journal, Scott Nicholson, Associate Professor for Syracuse University School of Information Studies, Adam Beck from Central Arkansas Library System talking about how his library uses World of Warcraft, and Peggy Sheehy on WoW in Schools (Peggy was a gracious late inclusion).
You can view a transcript of the seminar. World of Warcraft has an excellent logging function so that is it is not too complex to produce transcripts of discussions.
From the feedback for this seminar I decided to organise a series of talks. These take place in World of Warcraft every six to eight weeks and feature a mix of librarians and educators. The next speakers on 15 July will be Landon K Pirius and Gill Creel , co authors of Reflections on play, pedagogy, and World of Warcraft, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 3, 2010.
Transcripts of all previous talks are available on the Games and libraries wiki.
If you would like to participate in one of these talks, have a look at this slide show...
...then read the other information here.
Please contact me if you would like any further information about this professional development series.
Ellen Forsyth
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