VALA2008 14th Biennial

Conference and Exhibition

Melbourne Convention Centre, Australia
February 5 – 7, 2008
NTU Library – Information Communication Session
By Hazman Aziz
Libraries / changing
spaces, virtual places

The Theme
 Going virtual for enhanced library experience: a
case study of the National Library of Singapore

Schubert Foo
NTU

Andy Michael
Powell Geist
Eduserv University of
Foundation, Ottawa,
UK Canada Unlocking access: in
Repositories through support of a hands-on
the looking glass Internet policy
VALA
Libraries /
changing spaces,
virtual places

Peter Lor
Stuart
Weibel University of
Pretoria,
OCLC
South Africa
Making identifiers concrete (so
library places and spaces don't International Librarianship
Luke
have to be) Wroblewski 2.0: some international
Yahoo! Inc & dimensions of Web 2.0
LukeW and Library 2.0
Interface
Designing for today's Web
Designs, USA

KeyNotes Speakers
So, what the theme meant?
 Majority
Minority Baby Boomers
Scholars, (40s -60s), X(60s
Researchers, -80s), Y(70s-
Lib-savvy users 90s), Z(>90s)

Our Library Our Users

Our World
Programs (Talks, Workshops,
Exhibitions, Tours, Outreach),
Campaigns, Volunteers…
?
Presented by:
Our Library…
Brick vs Click Our Users… Going Virtual For Enhanced
Collect-Organise-Store-Access Info needs met by Search Engines? Library Experience:
Web info is legitimate and only source? A Case Study of The National
Mediator (Source-User) Library of Singapore
Authoritative-Trusted content Think library or think GYM?
Expect instant gratification Schubert Foo, Judy Ng*, Ann
Find info until it is downloadable Soh*
Expect exception user experience
(Memorable, Unique, Exquisitely simple)

What if the library is a concierge?

 Minority Majority

Our Our Our

Library Users World

?
Presented by:
What to do?
 Delve into the information space of the users (Our World) Going Virtual For Enhanced
Library Experience:
 Make resources more “discoverable” by users
A Case Study of The National
 Through them, bring them back into the library space (Our Library of Singapore
Library)
Schubert Foo, Judy Ng*, Ann Soh

What to do as a librarian?
BookJetty & Library Roles
as Prof. Schubert Shares At VALA
What happen to BookJetty after
VALA
Design Considerations
•Presentation: How your application
appears to your audience

•Interaction: How your application behaves

in response to user actions

•Organization: The structure of your

application

The End Goal RECENT SHIFTS

• Quickly Communicate
• What is this? Usefulness
• How do I use it? Usability
• Why should I care? Desirability

DESIGNING FOR
TODAY’S WEB
LUKE WROBLEWSKI
VALA NATIONAL CONFERENCE, FEB. 2008

How to do as a Librarian
 Dematerialisation

Globalisation

Peter Lor ,
International Librarianship 2.0: some international dimensions
Commodification
of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
Disintermediation

Has the role of librarian change?

 “It isn't about a
•Power of blogosphere hands-off approach,
Internet •Power of social
networks
the future of the net
is in our hands.”
2008 •Power of social audio
•Power of video sharing

•Enhancing Participation
Internet •Connectivity
•Copyright
Not a prediction, but
public policies and
2018 •Content potential.

Michael Geist,
Unlocking access: in support
of a hands-on Internet
policy

Unlocking Access
 what impact those
changes have on the represent a
future of libraries, their microcosm of the
spaces and their wider library
services. landscape

So who will the future as manifest through Web

looks like?
repositories 2.0 and social
networking

Andy Powell,
Repositories through the looking glass

What will the future be like

for institutional repositories
 Lynette Lewis, Yarra Plenty Regional
Library, Vic
•CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Library 2.0: taking it to the street
•Library 2.0 Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA
Do we remove all the walls? Second Life librarianship

•CONCURRENT SESSION 6: Cameron Barnes and Karan Jones, University of New

Publishing England, NSW
Making a virtual community real: redeveloping eSKILLS Plus
using Web 2.0

•CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Fiona Bradley, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW,

Enabling Technologies
•CONCURRENT SESSION 11:
Websites
•CONCURRENT SESSION 16:
Accessibility
Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, WA and Constance
Wiebrands, Curtin University, WA
Libraries interact: collaboration and community in the
Australian library blogosphere
Kate Davis, Gold Coast City Council, QLD, formerly of
the National Library of Australia, ACT
Be my buddy: IM and the future of virtual reference
Wilma Kurvink, Wesley College, VIC
A new paradigm for reference librarians in the online world:
developing relationship around research and learning with
library users

Jean McKay and Helen Bronleigh, Murdoch University, WA, Annmaree Brown and Margaret
Wright, Macquarie University, NSW
Shibbolising Online Librarian: how two university libraries enhanced their collaborative chat
reference service by using a MAMS Mini grant to add authentication and develop an interoperable
chat client

The Other Presenters

The vendors presentations
Visit to the State Library
Visit to the State Art Museum
What did I learnt
 Singapore libraries should
also share their initiatives on
the efforts to make libraries a
better and more relevant check on the progress of
space for users in the virtual development in social
world. networking tools by libraries.

Kathryn Greenhill,
Fiona Bradley and
Constance
Wiebrands on
Libraries interact: concurrent sessions were useful
collaboration and as they focused on practical
community in the experiences of Australian
Australian library librarians in their journey of
blogosphere at exploring new technologies
http://librariesinte
ract.info/

so that others can learn from

their experience and compare
their developments in this area.

What did I learnt

A couple of projects that I tried and test out the concept that I have pick up from VALA 2008
and applied in my postgraduate subjects (Information Entrepreneurship - Assignments). Reason
:to test the concepts and understanding learnt from the conference and the librarianship’s
knowledge towards technology embracement.

After the conference, the follow up

work at LTD and Business Library
 What is information
concierge, will it
work and take
What will happen place
to the library in
the near future?
Save the world,
save the librarian

the librarian

See you guys at

LAS Conference
2008 !!

I will share web

marketing - to

The End build an info-

concierge model
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Reference Notes
 Vala Facebooking Your Library March 2008 » SlideShare
 2 Apr 2008 ... Part of a presentation to VALA 2 April 2008. ... <div>
<h3>Vala Facebooking Your Library March 2008</h3> From: <a ...
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 eFoundations: Repositories thru the looking glass
 15 Feb 2008 ... I spent last week in Melbourne, Australia at the VALA 2008
Conference - my first trip over to Australia and one that I thoroughly enjoyed.
...
efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2008/02/repositories-th.html
 VALA 2008 Conference Wrap-up | Libraries Interact
 8 Feb 2008 ... VALA 2008 is finished and we are looking forward to VALA
2010 in the new Melbourne Convention Centre, being built just across the river
from ...
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Reference Notes
 Thank you to:

 Mr Choy Fatt Cheong

 Mrs Hazel Loh
 Mr Akbar Hakim

 Prof. Schubert Foo

 For sharing his slides and advices during the VALA 2008, including the
compliments and encouragements on BookJetty and NTU Library efforts that
we have done.

 And those at VALA 2008, but I don’t know them, (Like Mary, Deputy of IT
Library Services, Uni of Maryland; Natalie Pang, PhD Candi at Monash;
Vendors; Luke Wroblewski ).All too the viral networks effects in the social
librarians’ sphere

Acknowledgements