10.45am Reading the Future Four leaders in fields important to the library and information industry give their personal views on key issues and challenges in reading the future. They are Charles Landry, Comedia, UK, Louise Adler, The Age, Elizabeth Proust, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Neil McLean, Macquarie University Library. Their topics of Society, Literature and the Media, Management, Access and Technology, will be woven through the remaining conference sessions.
2.00pm Technology Transforming the Future,
Min Min Chang.
3.00pm Solution Sessions
To highlight the integral part the commercial sector plays in the development of libraries, each Solution Session will be a forum for
three trade representatives to explore, debate and discuss broad issues in their area of business, from both the suppliersÕ and the usersÕ perspective. These will be lively, straight talking sessions
on core issues.
A1 Product Development
This session will explore developments in computing products, particularly in relation to the Australian library market and its opportunities and problems. The role and expectations of librarians
and vendors will feature in discussions.
A2 Value Adding or Shifting Costs (1)
Outsourcing - What are the trade offs? Do libraries have to relinquish autonomy and flexibility?
A3 Great Expectations
How can libraries and suppliers work together to ensure both are happy with the results? What are reasonable expectations for both parties? How can libraries ensure the scoping, specification and tender process are effective? What place do trust and goodwill have in the marketplace and what are the ingredients for a good contract, effective negotiation and contract monitoring?
A4 Libraries In Business: Partnership Models for Enhancing Services
This session will explore the opportunities that are available through the development of partnerships between libraries and the business communities. Product development can be enhanced through direct input from libraries as both parties will have a key role in development, tailoring and marketing.
4.15pm Solutions Sessions II
B1 Content
Imagine only being able to read literature that has been Americanised. Find out why Australian content is so important, on the increase and how technology is assisting.
B2 Value Adding or Shifting Costs (2)
B3 Should Information be Free? Copyright or Copywrong?
Fair use: fair to whom? How can the library profession and the information industry work together to ensure a balance between usersÕ ready access to the information they need and a fair return to the copyright holder?
Professor Stuart Macintyre will examine the essence and origin of what it means to be Australian, and how that cultural heritage is preserved and transmitted. As an historian and a council member of both the National Library and the State Library of Victoria he has a clear vision for the future role of libraries in cultural transmission.
11.00am Parallel Sessions
C1 Intellectual Property and Copyright Law Reform
Electronic publishing, data storage and use are placing new demands on our understanding of intellectual property and the role and appreciation of copyright. The reform of AustraliaÕs copyright law in 1997 will be a milestone. Peter Banki will discuss the Copyright Law Reform CommitteeÕs role and progress. Respondents will examine the implications of options for law revision.
C2 Social Cost / Social Benefit?
Cost benefit analysis from a social point of view.
, Comedia UK, will provide an international perspective on the value of libraries in the community. Professor Philip Williams, Melbourne Business School, an economic view; and a representative from local government will provide a case study in measuring social cost / social benefit.
C3 Users Users Users
Brief presentations on issues which relate to the user - providing an eclectic range of angles on what ought to be the main focus of our industry.
Setting the Future Course : Training CSIRO Staff to Cruise the Internet
Cynthia Love, CSIRO Information Services, Melbourne
Future Library Access : Bringing the Catalogue to the User
Maxine Brodie, University of Technology, Sydney and Mary Mortimer, Canberra Institute of Technology
Free Net Service Provision in the Public Library Environment
Frances Sims, Stanton Library, North Sydney,
User Surveys using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Tony Nolan, Faculty of Business University of Technology, Sydney
C4 The Transforming Library: Print to Electronic
We are in a period when library services are moving from largely print-based services to reliance on electronic resources. These changes pose issues in management, organisation, service provision, and relations with information suppliers.
The Transforming Library
Min Min Chang, Director, University Library, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
The Changing Nature of the Serial Agent
Albert Prior, Swets & Zeitlinger bv Networked Multimedia Meets the Electronic Library
Ted Chrisfield, La Trobe University World I
Geoff Payne, CAVAL
C5 Best Practice: Managing In Times of Change
The Karpin Report has recently pointed the spotlight on leadership and management issues in Australia. Library management must cope with many pressures: greater accountability, benchmarking and quality control, technological change, declining financial resources and more. Never before has leadership and the capacity to manage change been more important. We look beyond as well as within libraries for successful management strategies.
Reinventing and Redesigning a Major Library and Information Service - the Library and Information Service of Western Australia
Lyn Allen, Library and Information Service of Western Australia
Reading the Management Futures for Libraries: Implication for Library Management Education
Fay Nicholson, Library and Management Consultant,
Associate Professor Maxine Rochester, Charles Sturt University, NSW
2.00pm Parallel Sessions
D1 Valuing Library Collections
As financial and annual reporting requirements become more stringent in both the Australian government and private sectors, administrative units are increasingly required to record and report on the non-current physical assets under their control. This includes library collections. The costs of accurate valuation, depreciation and reporting are significant. The panel will explore the meaningfulness of valuation and whether there are more appropriate measures of value than financial valuation.
Professor Peter Wolnizer, Dean, Faculty of Management, Deakin University and Professor Gary Carnegie, Head of the School of Accounting and Finance, Deakin University.
Ms Barbara Hince, Kenneth Hince Old and Fine Books.
Barbara Hince is currently involved in a valuation project for the State Library of Victoria.
Mr Warren McGregor, Australian Accounting Research Foundation.
D2 Benchmarking and Measurement
Case Studies from academic, public and special libraries
.
Performance Indicators for Reference and Information Services
Rosemary Cotter, David Cunnington, Eva Fisch, Barbara Paton,
CAVAL Reference Interest Group: Working Party on Performance
Measures for Reference Services
Benchmarking for Australian Academic Libraries
Alex Byrne, Northern Territory University
Benchmarking in Public Libraries
Brian Haratsis, USE Consultants
D3 Research In Australia
Research in library and information science is carried out at many Australian universities, and also in many libraries themselves. This session provides an opportunity for some of those involved in recent projects to report to their professional peers.
Interdisciplinarity and Provision of Journals
Mari Davis, Australian Institute of Family Studies
What Australian Research is Happening in Teacher Librarianship and What Additional Research is Needed
James Henri and Ashley Freeman, Charles Sturt University, NSW
Information Needs of Distance Education Higher Degree by Research Students
Peter Macauley and Tony Cavanagh, Deakin University Library
Headlights for the Information Superhighway
Jean Goh and Kaye Cleary, University of Ballarat, VIC
D4 Income Generation from Entrepreneurial Services
Traditionally libraries have had a philosophy based on cooperation, but this is being challenged by external forces, particularly competition. Maureen Fallon will introduce a panel of six speakers looking at a broad range of services and funding projects.
Maureen Fallon, Creative Director, Management of Ideas
Sandra Crabtree, Information Resources Coordinator, North Ltd, Melbourne
Sheena Cuthbert, Schools Periodical Service, State Library of Victoria
Roger Longhurst, History Service, State Library of Queensland
Gaye McDermott, CSIRO Building Information Resource Centre, Victoria
Janice Nitschke, Millicient Public Library, South Australia
Janette Parkinson, SLNSW Foundation
D5 Education in the Twenty - First Century
In common with every other sector in the library field, school libraries are having to evaluate the impact of technology on service delivery, deal with restructuring in the education sector and take steps to ensure their continuing important role in the educative process.
Preparing our Users for the Future: the Training of end-users.
Shelda Debowski, Department of Library and Information Science, Edith Cowan University.
The educative role of the school library into the 21st century.
Jill Kendall, University of Melbourne
Evolution and revolution in school library practice.
Suzette Boyd, Director of Library Services, Methodist Ladies College
4.00pm Leadership in the Information Age
Joey Rodger
Librarians are the natural leaders in this age of global information resourcesÐ and not just for libraries. However, many ways of providing leadership are not naturalÐ or at least do not feel that way. Joey Rodger, President of the Urban Libraries Council will discuss the key issues and the unnatural behaviors called for in these times of extraordinary opportunity.
9.45am ALIA Annual General Meeting
11.00am Celebrity Debate: Reading - Is there a future?
Your favourite figures of fun and frivolity from the entertainment world and illustrious intelligentsia of the information industry will duel to develop a definitive decision on the possible passing of printed pagination in times of tremendous technological triumph. Judicious adjudication will temper team member' tirades and tantrums and victory will be validated by vigorous voting.
2.00pm Parallel Sessions
E1 The Internet: Access, Possibilities and Issues for
Libraries
The Internet is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous tool in libraries of every kind. How do we best ensure that everyone has access to it - including people on low incomes, people with limited computer skills and people in remote areas?
The Internet - Where Are We Now?
Geoff Huston Telstra Internet / AARNET
Older People, New Technology and Public Libraries
Kirsty Williamson, Department of Information Management and Library Studies, RMIT
The Victorian Experience
Gary Hardy, VICNET, State Library of Victoria
The G7 Electronic Library; Access on a Global Scale
Kerry Webb, National Library of Australia
E2 Self Development
The concept of life-long learning is now firmly entrenched in our working lives. No longer (if we ever could) can we rely on the skills and knowledge gained in our formal education. The panel will discuss topics such as continuing professional development, action learning, internships, mentoring, competencies and in-house training.
The ALIA (WA) Mentoring Programme and its Role in Continuing Education
Paul Genoni, School of Information & Library Studies, Curtin University and Ann Ritchie, Hollywood Private Hospital.
Crossing Career Paths: Convergence and Divergence in the Lives of Information Professionals
Craig Anderson, Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service and Barbara Horn, Stowe Computing Australia.
Is Leisure in the Equation: Lifelong Learning and Librarianship
Kerry Smith, School of Information and Library Studies, Curtin University.
The Use of an Action Learning Programme for the Development of Management Competencies in Libraries
Janice Rickards and Denise Raybould, Human Resources Division of Information Services, Griffith University.
E3 The Library Workforce - Meeting the Challenge
The library workforce is in a process of rapid change, partly as a result of external trends, and partly as a result of changes in the nature of libraries and the information business. The papers in this session will present views of the library workforce from four very distinct angles.
An Overview of the Industrial Climate and How Librarians Fit In.
Phil Teece, Personnel & Industrial Services Manager, ALIA.
The School and Industry Match: is it working?
Joyce Kirk, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Technology, Sydney.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Recruitment and Career Development Strategy.
Alana Garwood, ALIA
Competencies and their Potential Impact on Staff Development and Training: Implications for libraries and people working in them.
Angela Bridgland, Library, University of Melbourne.
E4 Library Buildings
Two notable figures involved in recent Australian library building projects will speak at this session. Dr David Jones, Library Building Consultant and Manager, Building and Planning Advisory Service, State Library of New South Wales, was involved in the State Library of New South Wales building redevelopment, and has worked since then as a building consultant, among other things. Peter Corrigan, Edmond and Corrigan, is a distinguished Melbourne architect, and in 1995 two of his buildings were awarded prizes: Building 8 (RMIT), incorporating the new RMIT library, and the new Ringwood public library.
4.00 pm Tying it All Together
Derek Whitehead, State Library of Victoria
4.30 pm Robert Wedgeworth,
President of IFLA, University Librarian, University of Illinois, USA