From the
University
Librarian
2015 no.6. March 27
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Union court – ideas fest. Across the campus
the call is out for suggestions and ideas
Start here to share your ideas, images and designs –
as well as on the Library’s Facebook page.
Interactive map Radboud University, great
contribution to Design the Library of the future
from Erin Gallant
Reinventing University Publishing. Thanks
to Lorena, CAUL staff, Anne and Katy for helping out –
and especially to Lorena for being a star on the
organizing committee, chairing and presenting at this
event. We generated provocative views about
publishing – death of peer review, monographs need
to join the digital and views from academics and
researchers calling for more responsive publishing
opportunities. Presentations and papers will be
available in the repository as we receive them.
Collected notes from the THAT camp can be seen
here.
See the ANU report at Are academic books dead?
Tama Art University Library in Tokyo – thanks
Sally for the post
Farewell Helena.
A sad day but exciting for Helena to farewell us and
move to ACU. Heather noted that lots of staff who had
worked with Helena previously popped in including
John Muellner.
Kathy Collier, Dave and many others, The Chifley tea
room was packed. Library staff from all of the branches
wished her the best.
Works we recall when thinking of Helena –
compassionate, lovely, chic, elegant, determined and
from one colleague "total bikers moll":
Finding books and more – a hit. What does
a recent visitor say? How useful is this page? 5 out
of 5 – thanks Emily for passing this on.
Vanuatu Library. After the terrible Cyclone Pam
the National Library and Archive of Vanuatu have
reported that they are all safe. The Library and
Archives Collection are safe. The VKS team are safe
too – thanks to Kylie for passing this on.
ALIA are raising funds to help the libraries in Vanuatu
rebuild collections click here for more information.
National Digital Literacy Forum. Heather
attended this on our behalf. The top 5 discussions
from the forum were:
1. What does the changing business model of libraries
mean for broader community engagement? And how
can libraries use Go Digi and other digital literacy tools
as a means to engage and enable their communities
with technology?
2. The importance of digital literacy in society and how
it empowers individuals and communities.
3. The need to develop online skills and online
confidence in the community using trusted partners
such as libraries, community houses and post offices.
4. How to support communities to use Go Digi and
other digital literacy resources as tools in their
programs.
5. What can we do as a collective of different
organisations and sectors to support a National Year
of Digital Inclusion in 2016?
HR News/Staffing
Looking to the future
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Learning opportunities
Web junction.
The entire WebJunction catalog of
self-paced library courses is free and open for all
librarians to use. More than 9,000 library staff and
volunteers have created accounts, and these
individuals have registered for over 15,000 courses.
Create an account on WebJunction's learning
management site to register for courses and track your
learning.
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Australian Digital Alliance news.
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Competencies in digital scholarship.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the
University of Rochester River Campus Libraries a
$100,672 grant to fund a pilot program designed to
strengthen librarians’ competencies in digital
scholarship. The pilot 21st Century Skills: Digital
Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians will
launch during the summer of 2015 at the University of
Rochester. The application deadline is May 15, 2015.
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New Library Advisory Committee
member. Rebecca McKetin, Fellow, Centre for
Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Research
School of Population Health will be representing ANU
College of Medicine, Biology and Environment on the
Library Advisory Committee.
E Press and Open Access
UNESCO's Open Access (OA) Curriculum
launched Researchers and Library Schools by
UNESCO highlights its efforts for enhancing capacities
to deal with Open Access issues. It is based on two
needs assessment surveys, and several rounds of
Visit ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries
to see the manual and blog
ACRl adds to our brain food with ACRL d
New Roles for the Road Ahead, authored by
well-known bloggers and thought leaders
Steven J. Bell, Lorcan Dempsey, and
Barbara Fister. 20 essays in three sections,
“Framing the Road Ahead,” “Shifts in
Positioning,” and “Responding to Opportunity:
Creating a New Library Landscape.”
two briefing papers – available for members Online Copyright Infringement – Draft Code.
ADA Briefing Paper (17/3/15) and Copyright
reform: Outstanding
Reviews/Recommendations. ADA Briefing
Paper (17/3/15).
ADA & ALCC Joint Submission to the ALRC
Traditional Rights and Freedoms Inquiry
available here
ADA & ALCC Joint Submission to the Senate
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
Defence and Trade inquiry into the Treaty
Making Process here
ADA Forum a great success, with a diverse
range of speakers tackling the thorny issues
in copyright. All the videos are available
online thanks to the generous support of
Internet NZ
CAUL news.
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Research Publications Repository Survey
2014 - survey instrument - raw data - data
with bar charts (pdf) - public report
(comments de-identified) (pdf) - membersonly version
Many thanks to staff from Chifley and
Hancock Library who are led tours
Southern Cross Uni's $38m library of the
future arrives.
Roxanne Missingham
University Librarian
face-to-face and online consultations with relevant
stakeholders.
» read more
Events
Digital Humanities 2015
WHEN: 29 June–3 July 2015
WHERE: University of Western Sydney
DETAILS & REGISTRATION: here
Anna Bligh will speak on her new book, Through
the Wall, Reflections on Leadership, Love and
Survival.
WHERE: Copland Lecture Theatre,
WHEN: 6.30pm. March 30th.
Bookings: ANU Events, 6125 4144 or
[email protected] .
Marion Halligan will read from her new novel,
Goodbye Sweetheart, and will talk about her
writing with Colin Steele
WHERE: Theatrette, Sir Roland Wilson Bldg
WHEN: Wednesday 1 April 2015, 6 –
7pm. Registration: Please register to
[email protected] or 6125 2895.
Digital collection
Managing Digital Collections Survey
Results. All you need to know about institutional
content, repositories, services, future needs and plans,
staff support, and the libraries' overall commitment to
digital preservation. Liz Bishoff and Carissa Smith
report on a survey of 145 institutions across all types of
academic libraries.
» read more
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata
Practices. Heather Lea Moulaison, Felicity Dykas
and Kristen Gallant analysed information from 23
repositories including information about the creators of
metadata, best practices and resources, and controlled
vocabularies.
» read more
Institutional & research repositories:
Characteristics, relationships and
roles. Judith Russell, Univ. of Florida; Michael Witt,
Purdue Univ., James Toon, Univ. of Edinburgh; Alicia
Wise, Elsevier give great presentations of institutional
and research repositories recorded on Feb 27 2015 it is
timely, insightful and exciting!
» read more
Readings
College & Research libraries 75th
anniversary issue. This issue contains some very
informative article including:
 Joan K. Lippincott “Libraries and the Digital
University”
 David W. Lewis “Inventing the Electronic
University”
 Kara J. Malenfant “Leading Change in the
System of Scholarly Communication: A
Case Study of Engaging Liaison
Librarians for Outreach to Faculty”
 Roger C. Schonfeld “Scholarly Societies
and Scholarly Communication: A Look
Ahead”
» read more
Demand Driven acquisitions. A thoughtful
review by Edward A. Goedeken and Karen Lawson:
» read more
Local news in the digital age. Pew Research
finds “local news matters deeply to local residents;
digital delivery is impacting news habits, but at
different levels; residents are involved in the local
news process, but in varying ways”.
» read more
Value – some complex thoughts. Jim
Michalko from OCLC works through concepts of value,
structure and reorganisation.
» read more
More on repositories - Self-assessment of
an Institutional Repository against ISO
16363-2012. Bernadette Houghton from Deakin
University reports on the self assessment using the
Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification:
Criteria and Checklist (TRAC), which evolved into ISO
16363-2012
» read more
New in the repository:
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Poona (Pune) and Indian Village Mission
(PIVM)
Mary Reed of Australia and the China Inland
Mission
Review of post-CLERP 9 Australian auditor
independence research
A core gene set describes the molecular basis
of mutualism and antagonism in epichloë spp
A tunable submicro-optofluidic polymer filter
based on guided-mode resonance
Australian National Data Service
Sharks, books, what?. “Douglas said…Books
are sharks,” Gaiman told a packed audience at the
Royal Geographical Society in London. “I must have
looked baffled because he he looked very pleased with
himself. And he carried on with his metaphor. Books
are sharks … because sharks have been around for a
very long time. There were sharks before there were
dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean
is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.”
See David Crotty’s post on Gaiman’s Douglas Adams
lecture here.
OCLC Research Library Partners
Metadata Managers Focus Group. It has
been an active couple of weeks for the group:
NCRIS funding extended. Minister Pyne
announced that “As part of my discussions with the
cross-bench Senators, the Government has decided to
remove the distraction and guarantee funding for the
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
for a further twelve months,” See his speech here.
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Are We at a Tipping Point for
Open Data? A new Scholarly Kitchen post:
“The number of funding agencies asking researchers to
make their data available is increasing and more than
half of researchers globally are already doing so. With
enforceable mandates finally starting to arrive, how
long can we continue to think of the jury still being out
on open data?”
Webinar: Cost and Benefits of Data
Provision. John Houghton will be joining us for a
webinar on Wednesday 29th April, 12:30 - 1:30pm
AEST Register
The latest issue of ANDS newsletter share is themed:
The value of research data to the Nation
Read about:
 Data: adding value to the Australian economy
and environment
 Connecting the infrastructure pieces to add
value to Australia’s research data
 How past observations are building
astronomy’s future
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WebEx discussion on the “Working in Shared
Files” topic. A small group, but three countries
represented - recording available (55
minutes, 54 seconds)
o National Library of Spain’s linked
data beta site
o Article by Google staff on its
Knowledge Vault which “features a
probabilistic inference system that
computes calibrated probabilities of
fact correctness”:
o Link to information about OCLC’s
WorldCat Identities (at the time
written, 30 million names
represented):
WebEx discussion on the “Managing
Metadata for Image Collections” topic recording available (50 minutes, 22 seconds)
o challenges posed by normalizing
dates across formats and sources
see Thom Hickey’s paper with Jenny
Toves. “Parsing and Matching Dates
in VIAF”:Analysis of the nearly
400,000 unique date strings in VIAF
led us to a parsing technique that
relies on only a few basic patterns
for them. Our goal is to correctly
interpret at least 99% of all the dates
we find in each of VIAF’s authority
files and to use the dates to facilitate
matches between authority records.
Python source code for the process
described here is available.
o
ORCID Implementers Roundtable
Tuesday 14 April 2015, Canberra
ANDS and CAUL invite you to attend a roundtable
focussed on ORCID, featuring Dr Laurel Haak,
Executive Director, ORCID
Seminars: Tools and Approaches for Managing
Environmental Data Throughout the Data Life-cycle
Thur 23 April 2015, Canberra, 9am - 2pm AEST
A half day of seminars on tools and approaches to
manage environmental data.
 the history and lessons learned from large
ecological and environmental research
programs, "big ecology"
 the current impediments to data management
and sharing
 solutions and tools that overcome these
challenges
 new approaches to publishing and sharing
data
 future directions in how informatics can better
enable science
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Princeton project to review and
normalize dates in finding aids. The
Chaos -> Order blog (“four
archivists’ battle with masses of
legacy description”) refers to the
Princeton finding aids site in Making
DACS Dates in its 9 March 2015
entry.
second WebEx discussion on the “Working in
Shared Files” is now available at: (58
minutes, 4 seconds)
Who Should Attend? Anyone with an interest in tools
that help improve data management and data sharing
in environmental science is welcomed. Whether you
are a developer, system builder, data librarian, data
manager, analyst or researcher, having the right tools
is critical to your success.
Registration is free, but places limited.
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