Library

Book review of "Achieving transformational change in academic libraries" by Stephen Mossop, Witney, Chandos Publishing, 2013, 197 pp., ISBN 978-1-84334-724-8

This article discusses the ways libraries can provide leadership in sustainable practice.

Stereotypes are everywhere and they might affect our decisions and perceptions in the workplace. In the first ALIA Multicultural webinar, we will discuss stereotypes and the unconscious bias. This is a wonderful opportunity to share your eye-rolling stereotype experiences with the group, put yourself in other people’s shoes, and break some stereotypes together.

With the traditional role of the librarian predicted by some to disappear within the next five years, Margherita Meeking looks at how we can make way for tertiary information professionals, with contemporary capabilities.

This presentation was done in the LIT Webinar, showing librarians some basic web design principles and free tools.

When the Information Commons at Holmesglen Institute of TAFE introduced a Live Help reference service in January 2002, it became the first Victorian TAFE to develop a synchronous online reference service. Email reference had been introduced earlier with little success but this did not discourage management; rather it confirmed the need to embrace a new technology that today’s Internet savvy students are familiar with. Email and telephone reference are still available, but the success of Live Help has proven that a virtual reference service can be developed at a TAFE level. This paper will discuss the experience of setting up a digital reference service; the aim is to put this work into an historical context and to show that you don’t need enormous budgets or extra staff in order to successfully implement such a service.

Holmesglen Institute Librarian Christopher Meeking shares his top three tips for building trust between academic libraries, their users and staff.

A presentation detailing how Holmesglen Librarians collaborated with Learning Skills teachers to create a new APA Guide.

It is a common stereotype that TAFE is for tradies and school leavers. TAFE stands for Technical and Further Education, nowadays many TAFE institutes offer more than just vocational education and training (VET) programs, they also offer Bachelor degrees or even Post-graduate qualifications. When life gives you stereotypes: rebel! This is my story of doing things out of the ordinary and launching the first Institutional Repository in the Victorian TAFE sector.

This is a presentation that was given at a VATL LIT Workshop, sharing the experiences of Holmesglen Library in setting up an Institutional Repository.