Gary M. Hardy
Education
Graduate Diploma in Information Services with Distinction, RMIT 1986
Master of Arts, La Trobe University 1984
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), La Trobe University 1980
Employment
October 1996 – Present General Manager
VICNET: Victoria’s Network
August 1994 – October 1996 Editorial Manager, VICNET.
Part-time Lecturer, Department of Information Services, RMIT
December 1993 - August 1994 Professional Development Librarian, RMIT Libraries
June 1991 - November1993 Head, Social Sciences and Design Information Section, RMIT Libraries.
January 1990 Lecturer, Department of Information Services, RMIT. Major subject streams - Information Technology, Database Design, Research Methods.
February 1988 - January 1990 Information Resources Librarian, David Syme Business School/Systems Librarian Chisholm Institute of Technology
Part-time Tutor, R.M.I.T. Department of Information Services.
March 1987 - February 1988 Research Assistant, TAFE Guidelines Project, R.M.I.T., Department of Information Services.
December 1986-March 1987 Cataloguer, Ministry of Housing.
March 1985 - October 1986 Tutor, La Trobe University English Department.
Publications:
Social entrepreneurs, community capacity building and sustainable development. Paper presented at the First Global Community Networking Conference, Barcelona, November 2000.
"What it is is what we make it – optimal roles for government and community in developing the human equitable online world that we all want." Keynote address, Flaxroots Technology: Claiming the Internet for Community. Wellington New Zealand, 17-18 April 2000
Gary Hardy and Deidre Lowe, "Getting beyond the ‘read-only’ paradigm." Paper presented at the VALA Biennial Conference, Melbourne 28-30 January 1998. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~garyh/vala1/valane~1.htm
Gary Hardy and Anne Casey, "Online Communities For Information Exchange And Peer Support: A Case Study." Paper presented at the Third Communities Networking/Networking, Communities Conference, Melbourne, 27-28 February, 1998. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~garyh/netconf98.html
Gary Hardy. "VICNET - the Victorian Experience" The Australian Library Journal Volume 45 No 1. February 1996.
Gary Hardy, Indra Kurzeme and Jenny Stocks. "Public Access Internet - extending the audience for the Internet into the general community". AusWeb96 Second Australian World Wide Web Conference
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/cultural/hardy/
Gary Hardy, "State Government Initiatives - VICNET" The Internet and Government IIR Conferences 1995.
Gary Hardy, Stuart Hall,Adrian Bates,Indra Kurzeme "VICNET and the Web in the wider Victorian community" AusWeb 95 First Australian World Wide Web Conference
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/libraries/hardy/
Gary Hardy, Derek Whitehead. "VICNET:Victoria's Network", Proceedings Information On Line On Disc Conference 1995. ALIA pp: 291 -303.
Gary Hardy: "Networks and image: the Internet and photo-based information" Flash, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Novemember 1993.
Gary Hardy. "Qjumper - a Hypercard Directional Reference System" Australian Library Review Vol 10 No 1 February 1993.
Gary Hardy. Chisholm Library Survey. Southguide Series No. 7. Chisholm Institute of Technology 1989.
Gary Hardy. "Performance Measures", Reference Services: Common Ties Papers from the Third National Reference Librarians' Conference. 1989 pp. 84-87.
Marianne Broadbent, Alan Hansell, C.N.G. Dampney, Peter Gilmour, Gary Hardy. "Information systems development and investment: strategic concerns and priorities." Proceedings of ASG18, Adelaide, 1988.
Barry McIntyre, Gary Hardy. Guidelines for the operation of TAFE Library Resource Centres in Victoria 1988-1992. RMIT Department of Information Services, Melbourne, 1988.
Gary Hardy, "Maggie's shadow: Wordsworthian themes in George Eliot's fiction." Meridian, 1985.
Presentations:
"Developing a sustainable model", Paper presented to Community Services Stream, Regional Australia Online: Practical Leadership Strategies, NOIE, Barossa Valley, 29 April 1999.
"Demand Generation" Keynote address Demand Generation session, Networking the Nation, National Forum, Canberra, April 12, 1999.
"Sharing collections, sharing data, sharing interpretation, sharing experience". Panel Session, Culture Stream, Seventh International WWW7 Conference, Brisbane 14-18 April 1998
"Community Networks and Social Change" - presentation to Community Enterprise Network, October 1996.
"VICNET- The Victorian Experience" - ALIA Conference, Melbourne, October 1996
"The Internet in Libraries - the issues" - NZALIA Conference, Queenstown NZ, September 1996.
"Community Networks" - presentation for NZ Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, NZ, September 1996.
"The Internet and Local Government "- paper presented to VEPLA Annual Conference, Philip Island, May 1996.
"Government on the Internet" - presentation to STM Consulting Conference, Sydney March 1996.
"State Government on the Net" - presentation to IPAA, Canberra, February 1996
Numerous VICNET and Internet demonstrations to community groups, Rotary and other business groups, councils, and other gatherings.
Products
Qjumper - a HyperCard based directional reference assistance system - operated in the RMIT Libraries Central Library 1992 -3 during which time it responded to over 250,000 queries.
RMIT Library Gopher - millbrook.lib.rmit.edu.au – major information gateway, featured in "hitchikers guide to the Internet in early 90s.
Internet training courses for academic and library staff at RMIT, State Library and Melbourne University.
Preemie-l.org – the Preemie-L web site.
Other
Member of National EDNA Steering Committee. 1996 –
Member, Project Management Committee, Gippscomm, 1999 -
Board Member, TAFE Frontiers Board, 2000 -
Founder and list owner of "Preemie-L" online community for parents of premature babies:-
http://www.preemie-l.org 1995 –Member, Executive Committee, Victorian Association of Community Information Centres 1996 – 1999
Contributing Editor, Electronic Publishing Australia, 1995 - 1998
Consultancy - OTFE Analysis of OTFE electronic publishing, audience and information systems. December 1995 - February 1996
Consultancy - OTFE Web presence and electronic publications - September – December 1996
Referees
Dr Don Schauder, Professor, Monash University School of Information Management and Systems, 9903 2847, 9557 2182
Derek Whitehead, Director, Swinburne University of Technology Library, 9214 8333
Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Director, State Library of Victoria, 9669 9670
Simon Bryant, Project Manager, Networking the Nation Online, Department of Communications Information Technology and the Arts, (02) 6271 1032