Joye Volke and Jennifer Coombes (a librarian and an archivist) talked about Creating visibility : archives, ephemera and oral history at the National Gallery of Australia.
They are a participant in the Dictionary of Australian artists online. They are also contributors to Prints and print making Australia Asia and Pacific.
Joye and Jennifer talked of the difficulty of providing access to detailed personal archives containing letters, papers, photographs, sketches…There is a challenge to create more visibility for these collections and a start is a more detailed catalogue entry. As well the NGA has started cataloguing their ephemera onto Libraries Australia as well there is a pdf listing of collections which NGA holds ephemera.
They have made some oral histories available online and have been contacting people and their descendants for permission and will add more over time.
Ellen Thompson and Kelly McKeon talked about M is for meeting places which is about how the Art Library Society of Australia and New Zealand (which has about 120 members and a mix of specials and academic) to meet online. They wanted to harness the power of the crowd of the members using the idea of an online clubhouse – using web 2.0 tools. The ARLIS web site allows multiple levels of user access and it built in drupal. They plan for the site to be in perpetual beta.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Inga Lunden
Inga Lunden City Librarian, Stockholm, and Director of Stockholm Public Library talked about creating public paradise (an effective library) in the connected age. Inga talked of libraries being you find thing you did not know you were looking for – the net library should be the same – you also meet people you did not know you were longing for – and you can mix in an actual space with people of all ages, culture…She also highlighted the need to have stories to tell about the library to funders and to people using the collections and services, of the need to deliver facts and figures as well as stories of today, yesterday and the future. The final decision about the new Stockholm Library will be made in November or December this year – the decision is not yet certain. In planning for a library service it is necessary to focus on people’s needs and dreams, developing products and services that people desire.
New city libraries are libraries planned for Oslo, Copenhagen, and Helsinki. The plans for the new central library in Stockholm show the discovery library, the secret garden, and the house of narration. The house of narration is story telling for all ages and culture. The discovery library is for all ages – where curiosity is celebrated. Inga talked of the possibility of whispering walls and talking floors. Connecting both hw discovery library and the house of narration would be an agora and secret garden – which would open when the trains are running (a new railway station in planned for this area).
Claudia Lux
Claudia Lux
Director Berlin Public Library, and President of IFLA
This session covered very useful material to assist with advocacy for libraries.
Libraries always in culture and education but the role of libraries in city planning, family policy, health, economy and administration is understated – so exploring these options may open other resource streams . This worked in Berlin. We also have to become better at showcasing what libraries actually do. The following are some helpful dot points provided by Claudia to help with advocacy.
Advocacy to do
• never say bad about the others
• focus positive on goal – don’t whinge
• present success stories
• use statistics – but believe in more
• create pictures in their minds
• be patient
• be stubborn
• always stay controlled – makes you stronger, more professional
• start now – the rest will come later
• promote knowledge on advocacy – professional development, can be learned
• love the professions
• have fun
Project on stage
• personality is key
• talk clear and short – no reading, bullet points with statistics
• ask questions
• add humour
• smile and thank
local speakers
Melissa Jackson, Ronald Briggs, Fiona Blackburn and Sylvia Perrurle Neale before their talks yesterday.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Library stars: access, entrepreneurs, meeting places - a perspective from Stockholm
This photograph shows the conference venue 
The key note for the day was given by Inga Lunden, City Librarian, Stockholm, and Director of Stockholm Public Library.
Inga highlighted the themes for the day providing examples of how public libraries provide access, invite entrepreneurs, and create meeting places. She described a library she had seen at the IFLA conference in Durban, where at Thekwini (between Durban and Pietermaritzburg) the library staff talked with the people in the community while they were growing a vegetable garden together. This garden grew, outside the library, as ideas were shared about health, and raising children, and over time more and more people joined together. This is a culture of participation, where people participating in growing beets, also came to participate in using the library.
The mission for Inga’s library is that “Stockholm Library will inspire to knowledge and imagination with knowledge and imagination”. She highlighted the need for all library staff to have a sense of curiosity and sense of adventure, the need for big ears and fast feet, intuition and sense of trust and timing and the confidence to use it as well as the networking skills of s spider. She said that we are working to change from information systems to communication systems, from intermediary culture to participatory culture, from final cut to always beta and not have to wait until everything is perfect.
Inga talked of the need for new skills – for patrons and staff, including reading and writing, research and analysis, negotiating across culturally different communities, forming bonds with community leaders and that libraries have to role to encourage people to play/stimulate/perform/appropriate/sample/remix
Stockholm is growing (to around 800 000 people). It is also growing in knowledge, diversity and complexity. Inga stressed that in libraries we can make use of people’s creativity and capacity – not only within the elite, that we should work with partners who we don’t usually work with
Inga also mentioned that libraries and museums are in the security business – libraries want to make people less scared of each other – to make them meet people from other areas. Stockholm are working on the library net, the net library and a new central library. They are linking ideas from the three areas so that each works better. For example every time someone wants to renew a book they have the opportunity to comment on the book and write a review for others in the library to read.
“When people in motion meet a library in motion everything is possible” comes from the Stockholm strategic plan, This has Stockholm public libraries striving to be more accessible, urgent, effective.
Claudia Lux, Director Berlin Public Library, and President of IFLA spoke of the IFLA libraries success database which is used for advocacy on an international level. All kinds of libraries were asked to add their success stories to the database
The key note for the day was given by Inga Lunden, City Librarian, Stockholm, and Director of Stockholm Public Library.
Inga highlighted the themes for the day providing examples of how public libraries provide access, invite entrepreneurs, and create meeting places. She described a library she had seen at the IFLA conference in Durban, where at Thekwini (between Durban and Pietermaritzburg) the library staff talked with the people in the community while they were growing a vegetable garden together. This garden grew, outside the library, as ideas were shared about health, and raising children, and over time more and more people joined together. This is a culture of participation, where people participating in growing beets, also came to participate in using the library.
The mission for Inga’s library is that “Stockholm Library will inspire to knowledge and imagination with knowledge and imagination”. She highlighted the need for all library staff to have a sense of curiosity and sense of adventure, the need for big ears and fast feet, intuition and sense of trust and timing and the confidence to use it as well as the networking skills of s spider. She said that we are working to change from information systems to communication systems, from intermediary culture to participatory culture, from final cut to always beta and not have to wait until everything is perfect.
Inga talked of the need for new skills – for patrons and staff, including reading and writing, research and analysis, negotiating across culturally different communities, forming bonds with community leaders and that libraries have to role to encourage people to play/stimulate/perform/appropriate/sample/remix
Stockholm is growing (to around 800 000 people). It is also growing in knowledge, diversity and complexity. Inga stressed that in libraries we can make use of people’s creativity and capacity – not only within the elite, that we should work with partners who we don’t usually work with
Inga also mentioned that libraries and museums are in the security business – libraries want to make people less scared of each other – to make them meet people from other areas. Stockholm are working on the library net, the net library and a new central library. They are linking ideas from the three areas so that each works better. For example every time someone wants to renew a book they have the opportunity to comment on the book and write a review for others in the library to read.
“When people in motion meet a library in motion everything is possible” comes from the Stockholm strategic plan, This has Stockholm public libraries striving to be more accessible, urgent, effective.
Claudia Lux, Director Berlin Public Library, and President of IFLA spoke of the IFLA libraries success database which is used for advocacy on an international level. All kinds of libraries were asked to add their success stories to the database
Indigenous Literacy Day - today!
Did you know that today is indigenous literacy day? www.worldwithoutbooks.org is the website. I am looking forward to Anita Heiss's presentation on Indigenous Literacy.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
ALIA National Advisory Congress
The National Advisory Congress (NAC) was chaired by the ALIA president, Derek Whitehead. All members of the ALIA Board attended with the exception of Kate Watson.
Why have an NAC?
The aim of the NAC is to provide a forum for ALIA members to contribute to the strategy of the Association. Summaries of the regional meetings are available online and 3% of ALIA members participated in these meetings. The National NAC is held every two years at the ALIA Conference and provides a unique opportunity for members from all sectors to come together to discuss issues and strategy.
What did we talk about?
1. The outcomes of the Workforce and Education Summit
2. Professional Development was the main focus of this year's meeting. It's an ALIA priority for 2009 and there much debate about whether a compulsory scheme would be a good thing and what the roles of employers, educators, employees and ALIA should be in ensuring that we have a smart, skilled workforce. Did you know that approximately 10% of ALIA members are engaged in the Professional Development program?
3. The system of course recognition will be reviewed next year.
Posted by Mylee
Why have an NAC?
The aim of the NAC is to provide a forum for ALIA members to contribute to the strategy of the Association. Summaries of the regional meetings are available online and 3% of ALIA members participated in these meetings. The National NAC is held every two years at the ALIA Conference and provides a unique opportunity for members from all sectors to come together to discuss issues and strategy.
What did we talk about?
1. The outcomes of the Workforce and Education Summit
2. Professional Development was the main focus of this year's meeting. It's an ALIA priority for 2009 and there much debate about whether a compulsory scheme would be a good thing and what the roles of employers, educators, employees and ALIA should be in ensuring that we have a smart, skilled workforce. Did you know that approximately 10% of ALIA members are engaged in the Professional Development program?
3. The system of course recognition will be reviewed next year.
Posted by Mylee
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Preparing for Alice Springs
A small group of staff will be attending Dreaming08 the ALIA biennial conference in Alice Springs. We will posting about our experiences on this blog.
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