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