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2003-2009 Activities

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2nd IT-SIG Webinar Series – October 2011

 

  1. “Can you digitise this for me please”: The University of Auckland’s approach to managing digitisation proposals, Tuesday 11th October 2011 at 10 am. John Garraway (Digital Services & Information Commons Manager - University of Auckland) [Powerpoint only]http://www.thebookshelf.auckland.ac.nz/docs/ITSIG2011Presentation.pps
  2. Techniques for EZproxy Administrators, Tuesday 18th October 2011, at 10 am. Bob Pearson (Digital Access Librarian - University of Auckland) [Video]http://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/library/public/2011/ITSIG-2011-Webinar-Series2no2-EZProxy-BobPearson-hi.wide.preview
  3.  SuperIndex and Skylight - a new use for our repository infrastructure, Tuesday 25th October 2011 at 10am. Stuart Lewis (Library Digital Development Manager, University of Auckland) [Video] http://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/library/public/2011/ITSIG-2011-Webinar-Series2no3-SuperIndex-StuartLewis.wide.preview

 

1st IT-SIG Webinar Series – June–July 2011

 

  1. Image Digitisation And The Exlibris Digitool Platform, Thursday 16th June 2011, at 10 am. John Laurie (Digital Initiatives Librarian - University of Auckland)http://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/library/public/2011/ITSIG-2011-Seminar1-ImageDigitisation-DigitoolPlatform-JohnLaurie.wide.preview
  2. Delivering Digitisation Projects at Auckland Libraries - Issues and Challenges, Thursday 23rd June 2011 at 10 am. Sam Minchin (Digital Services Coordinator Central - Auckland Libraries) http://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/library/public/2011/ITSIG-2011-Seminar2-DigitisationProjects-AucklandLibraries-SamMinchin.wide.preview
  3. Delivering Audio and Video files Online at the University of Auckland, Thursday 30th June 2011 at 10am. Jacob Powell (Media Librarian, University of Auckland) [Powerpoint only]http://www.thebookshelf.auckland.ac.nz/docs/University%20of%20Audiovisualand.pps
  4. Automating Text Editing for large files, Thursday July 7th at 10am. Kim Shepherd (Library Digital Development Analyst and Programmer, University of Auckland) [Powerpoint only]http://www.thebookshelf.auckland.ac.nz/docs/ITSIG_TextEditing.pps

 

 

 

IT-SIG Bar Camp : over the edge Thursday 2nd Dec 2010

 (http://lianza.org.nz/community/343/forums/education-and-training)

For full report. Otherwise I have put summary below.

 

Bar Camps have been described as ‘user-generated conferences’. If you haven’t heard of them before, check out Bar Camps Aotearoa New Zealand or Wikipedia. At a Bar Camp, the people who come along decide what’s going to happen on the day. We start the day with an empty grid showing rooms and times, and invite attendees to fill it out with things they want to present, discuss, get help with, or just kick around. Three or four presentations will happen at once, giving everyone the chance to be involved in a wide range of topics. This bar camp was no exception. For the uninitiated this is a participatory workshop type event where the participants decide on the topics to be discussed, and provide the content, the ideas and the solutions. The whole day is planned around having conversations, creating connections and working together.

 

The “programme” for the day: 1. Suggest the topics and plan the sessions 2. Participate in the sessions (4 periods are planned with as many streams as ideas and space will allow) 3. Break for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea (provided) The initial brainstorming of topics of interest to discuss culminated in a rather large list. These inckuded:

 

Collaboration of resources, LMS, Content, Skills and expertise. Preservation Digitisation / Digital objects NDHA Discovery Layers Digital NZ Social Media Kete Open Source LMS Library Marketing Copyright Metadata E-Books School Learning Styles Restructuring / Change Management Google Digital NZ Aggregator Matapihi

 

covered the majority of them. At thais point we broke for morning tea. After morning Tea voted on four items. Fron this we set a basic agenda for the day. Next entry will have our discussions summarised.

 

E-Books

 

Ebook formats and file types continue to develop and change through time through advances and developments in technology or the introduction of new proprietary formats. While printed books remain readable for many years, e-books may need to be copied or converted to a new carrier or file type over time. PDF and epub are growing standards, but are not universal. The lack of a single universal standard could significantly affect the longevity of some works and their availability or readability in the future as a result of the format(s) used at the time of production. There are many Ereaders out there and formats differ for each reader etc. Libraries need the following to be clearly defined by (E Book)? publishers: A clear understanding of contractual arrangements. Clear and concise trs of Reference. Issue and ownership clearly defined and outlined. Terms of use.

 

How is access provided: Library catalogue. Library Website. Vendor Website. Or preloaded on Ereader provided by library

 

Level of support suplied and by who

 

Creating our on local content

 

Measuring usuage?

 

Points to consider: A book will never turn off and would be unusable only if damaged or after many decades. The shelf life of a printed book exceeds that of an e-book reader, as over time the reader’s battery will drain and require recharging. Additionally, “As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that [electronic] copies will last. Bits become degraded over time. Documents may get lost in cyberspace…Hardware and software become extinct at a distressing rate.” E-book readers are more susceptible to damage from being dropped or hit than a print book. Due to faults in hardware or software, e-book readers may malfunction and data loss can occur. As with any piece of technology, the reader must be protected from the elements (such as extreme cold, heat, water, etc.), while print books are not susceptible to damage from electromagnetic pulses, surges, impacts, or extreme temperatures.

 

The Discovery Layer

 

What is a discovery layer? A discovery layer provises a single point of access to the full library collection including bought databases, local contents databases etc all searched as one. When looking at discovery layers these a points to consider: The full library collection. If they develop as anticipated (a real question), the discovery layer will become the view of the library collection for library patrons. In fact, for many users it may actually become the library. This has several consequences: 1.What is not represented in the discovery layer will be much less visible. 2.There will be pressure to incorporate more services into the discovery layer - better fulfilment for example through resource sharing, Google book search, purchase or other options. 3.The integrated discovery experience will more clearly expose lack of integration with services behind, and will drive greater integration. One can see, for example, potentially more interest in the direct-to-content approach of something like (Pub Get)?. 4.And as somebody suggested to me afterwards, there will need to be strategies for managing those who resist the loss of a specific database interface. 2.A driver for other operations. If the discovery layer becomes the central focus for access to collections, then one can imagine discovery patterns begin to affect supporting operations like selection and acquisition. The patron-driven acquisition model is being explored in the ebook market - will it be extended to other licensed materials? 3.Data wells and the provider landscape. A discovery layer depends on an aggregation of data - a ‘data well’ - which involves considerable coordination costs. These include the processing involved in normalizing the data and the business interactions involved in assembling the data. The level of normalization may vary - how much work, for example, do you do in clustering author names across A&I databases, catalogs, and so on. It does not make sense to do this work too many times, so one might expect a small number of providers to emerge who syndicate ‘data wells’ to others as well as use them in their own services. It will also be interesting to see how strong the tendency is to use other products from your discovery layer provider - a knowledge base in which to record licensed holdings, a resolver, and so on. 4.Indirect discovery. It is important to remember that a discovery layer ‘destination’ is a part only of the library user’s discovery experience. Increasingly the library needs to think about how its services are visible to users who discover their information resources in Google, in the course management system, and so on. 5.Typical discpvery layers currently available include: 6.Worldcat Local 7.Summon 8.Primo Central 9.Ebsco Discovery Service.

 

We discussed standards for metadata should be the same no matter why programme, internet interface you are using.We though Digital NZ Standards as accepted by NDF were good

 

Technical standards and file formats

 

Digitisation Standard (07) This Standard is for use in the design and conduct of responsible digitisation by all organisations which are covered by the Public Records Act 2005. A Continuum Resource Kit containing Archives New Zealand’s current standards, tools and guidelines, can be downloaded from this site. 

http://www.archives.govt.nz/continuum/documents/publications

 

 

 

 

IT SIG AGM and Conference Session [2009]

 

As they Keynote Speaker Stephen Abram was running late we had little or virtually no time for lunch before the IT-SIG AGM and Conference session. This had an impact with the numbers attending, so with only a few we decided there was a quorum. We continued with the presentations. First up was :

 

1. Helen Brownlie (university of Otago Library) The changing discovery experiences 2. Brian Flaherty (University of Auckland Library) Stitching costs – how do we provide unified access to the catalogue, to licenced resources, repositories, local indexes etc in a web-scale world.

 

Two very inspiring presentations with some great discussion after.

 

We ran out of time for Peter Kennedy’s presentation.

 

 

Earlier activities

 

  • 2010 ITSIG sponsored Warren Curran (Manukau Institute of Technology Library) to attend VALA2010. Read his Report 

  • 2009 Workshop at LIANZA conference, Tuesday 14 October, with brief presentations from Peter Kennedy, Assistant Manager, Library IT, University of Canterbury Library, on converting a staff intranet to a wiki, Paul Hayton, Electronic Services Coordinator, Dunedin Public Library, on Web 2.0 at Dunedin Public Library, and Paul Sutherland, Digital Innovation Librarian, Christchurch City Libraries, on Life in Flickr.

  • 2008 Workshop at LIANZA conference, Monday 3 November.

    • Implementing LibGuides software from Springshare (LibGuides community) with contribution from Amanda Cole, AUT

    • Redevelopment of Auckland Public Library website with contribution from Sam Minchin, Auckland Public

    • Text digitisation (OCR, PDF, TEI, platforms, interfaces) with contribution from John Laurie, University of Auckland

    • Current trends in libraries (possible topics: resource discovery, next-generation ILS, aggregation/federation, open source) with contribution from Brian Flaherty, University of Auckland

  • 2007 “IT Topics Within Librarianship” workshop at LIANZA conference, Tuesday 11 September

  • 2006 LIANZA conference session

  • 2006 ITSIG sponsored Amanda Brown (Christchurch City Libraries) to attend VALA. Read her report

  • 2005 LIANZA conference session

  • 2005 ITSIG sponsored Ruth Lewis (Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian, Landcare Research) to attend Information Online.

  • 2003 LIANZA Conference Activities

  • 2003 Brenda Chawner attended LITA National Forum. Read her report

 

 

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