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Hi all,
I recently did an online course with ALIA and TAFE called
“Grow the love: Develop and promote activities, events and public programs.
It gave me
an opportunity to look at what libraries in Australia and around the world are
doing to promote and create ideas and events.
And here are
just a few examples:
Customs House Library presented
·
Late Night Library: Letters of Complaint
Join some of Sydney’s leading comedians as they share the best,
worst and most bizarre letters of complaint from the deep recesses of the City
of Sydney archives. From a noisy sausage machine, to the bothersome smell of
boiling tripe, this Late Night Library event indulges in a long list of comical
neighbourly gripes. Settle in to the Customs House Reading Room and rediscover
Sydney’s history in the words of those who lived here.
·
A.C.T.
Libraries have a great PDF of their events: LibrariesACT_WhatsOnSpring2016_WEB.pdf
·
Yarra Plenty
do plenty at their great website::
And there are so many more libraries out there doing great
things but after talking to many other libraries and librarians I came to the
conclusion that we are so lucky at Sutherland Libraries to:
1 Have a
library culture that encourages new ideas
2 An excellent website that looks good and is easy to use
3 Have a
great community programs team
4 Have an
excellent event planning package available to all staff.
5 Wide and varied talks and events
e.g. . MakerSpace
Special: 3D Printed Cookie Cutters what a great collaborative event.
I really enjoyed looking
around library land!
Cheers Meagan
ALIA Access 2010 – the ALIA event of the year Part 2
Ages ago you read Di’s impressive run down of resource sharing possibilities, finally here is more inspiation from this conference. Here’s one library’s approach to engaging with their community.
South Australia’s Burnside Library & The 5 “P’s” of Public Libraries.
Progressive Promotion
Partnerships
Popular Programs
Progressive Promotion
Displays in the front windows
- Innovative mascots ‘mannequins’
- they participate in (and promote, by their dress and props) current and upcoming activites.
YouTube
- “Midnight Mannequin Madness”
Facebook
– 65% of baby boomers use a range of social network’s
- used work experience kids to create their initial page
- Must be now/current, a static page will present the wrong image.
Newsletter
– graphic designer set it up initially
- Print 1000 per issue
- It is emailed as well, requests to join the email list are constantly increasing
Partnerships
Promotions Co-ordinator
– Adult promotions
- this allowed for more strategically linked events
- developed a marketing plan to create an overall vision
- Survey non-users, as well as users
- realisation that the further away people are the less they use, therefore they made a library ‘kiosk’ in the art gallery
Bookshops
- Provide discounts on popular books and access to large name authors for events
Local cinemas
– movie literature promotions
- great community building events with champange and nibbles
COTA – council of the ageing
- provide support and will promote activities in their newsletter
SA Theatre company
– discounted tickets to library members
- actors come and talk about productions
- playwrights and producers about writing and developing the play
Scottish Asociation
Japanese connection
Popular Programs
Adult Computer courses
– mouse
- email & www
- buying and selling on ebay
- Photo Story
- Word
- Facebook
Print disabled book club
– for those who listen
October SA COTA Intergenerational Connection
– young people targetting older people
- 4 young volunteers per 12 older people and they work through whtever the older person wants help with
Reading Connectedness
– One book One Burnside
- 2 months to read the book
- Library buys 50 copies
- Books the author to talk at the end of the period
Involve the community
– 150 volunteers throughout the service.
You too can participate in this event, it is not too late…you have not missed out!!
As part of the registration for this webstreamed event we are able to access the availale sessions ‘on-demand’
The on-demand webcast for Day 2 (Friday) is now available.
To access Click here, enter my email address jcraine@sc.nsw.gov.au and the password is suthlib. http://streamcast.com.au/alia/access2010/node/35
The sessions included are highlighted in red on the Conference Program page.
http://conferences.alia.org.au/access2010/program.html
The very short piece, just before lunch from Tutoring Australia was a very interesting look at what is to come!
South Australia’s Burnside Library & The 5 “P’s” of Public Libraries.
Progressive Promotion
Partnerships
Popular Programs
Progressive Promotion
Displays in the front windows
- Innovative mascots ‘mannequins’
- they participate in (and promote, by their dress and props) current and upcoming activites.
YouTube
- “Midnight Mannequin Madness”
– 65% of baby boomers use a range of social network’s
- used work experience kids to create their initial page
- Must be now/current, a static page will present the wrong image.
Newsletter
– graphic designer set it up initially
- Print 1000 per issue
- It is emailed as well, requests to join the email list are constantly increasing
Partnerships
Promotions Co-ordinator
– Adult promotions
- this allowed for more strategically linked events
- developed a marketing plan to create an overall vision
- Survey non-users, as well as users
- realisation that the further away people are the less they use, therefore they made a library ‘kiosk’ in the art gallery
Bookshops
- Provide discounts on popular books and access to large name authors for events
Local cinemas
– movie literature promotions
- great community building events with champange and nibbles
COTA – council of the ageing
- provide support and will promote activities in their newsletter
SA Theatre company
– discounted tickets to library members
- actors come and talk about productions
- playwrights and producers about writing and developing the play
Scottish Asociation
Japanese connection
Popular Programs
Adult Computer courses
– mouse
- email & www
- buying and selling on ebay
- Photo Story
- Word
Print disabled book club
– for those who listen
October SA COTA Intergenerational Connection
– young people targetting older people
- 4 young volunteers per 12 older people and they work through whtever the older person wants help with
Reading Connectedness
– One book One Burnside
- 2 months to read the book
- Library buys 50 copies
- Books the author to talk at the end of the period
Involve the community
– 150 volunteers throughout the service.
You too can participate in this event, it is not too late…you have not missed out!!
As part of the registration for this webstreamed event we are able to access the availale sessions ‘on-demand’
The on-demand webcast for Day 2 (Friday) is now available.
To access Click here, enter my email address jcraine@sc.nsw.gov.au and the password is suthlib. http://streamcast.com.au/alia/access2010/node/35
The sessions included are highlighted in red on the Conference Program page.
http://conferences.alia.org.au/access2010/program.html
The very short piece, just before lunch from Tutoring Australia was a very interesting look at what is to come!
ALIA Access 2010 – the ALIA event of the year
(you wouldn’t want to be anywhere else!)
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre 1 – 3 September 2010
Report by Dianne Ollerenshaw. Thanks to Jacinta for arranging our library access to web streaming for various presentations. My events were focussed on resource sharing and I have made notes on bits that peaked my interest. Please use the links to read the whole paper.
1.30-3.00 pm Collective Wealth, Global Sharing, Global Resources / Chair Graham Black.
1. Invited Speaker - NSLA Libraries Working Towards Seamless Access - Discover to Delivery Vicky Carlyon, State Library of Western Australia, WA Abstract Paper
Two of the presenters I listened to were from NSLA. NSLA is commissioned to Re-imagine Libraries.
(National & State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) represents the National, State and Territory Libraries of Australia and New Zealand. The libraries are National Library of Australia (NLA); National Library of New
Zealand (NLNZ); ACT Library & Information Services (ACTLIS); State Library of South Australia (SLSA);
State Library of Western Australia (SLWA); Northern Territory Library (NTL) ; State Library of
Queensland (SLQ); State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW); State Library of Tasmania (SLT) and
State Library of Victoria (SLV).)
Vicky is on the committee working on Delivery. They began in 2008 and are half way through the project which is focussing on delivering books and copies direct to clients in their home or wherever.
In the age of new online services, people want simple and quick options for the delivery of library content.
Challenges the committe has found include:
Vicky recommended having a look at the Montana Home Delivery Service.
2. Doc Del is Dead! Long Live ILL! Helen Balfour & Kael DriscollUniversity of Western Australia, WA Abstract Paper
Helen and Kael demonstrated that over the last few years interlending at UWA has increased markedly while document delivery has declined. With more journals being available electronically, and the increase in e-books it was expected ILL/DD would fade away.
Since 2003 there has been a steady increase in loans. Copy requests began to decline in 2003, but since 2008 have started to increase again.
They have focussed on making online requesting easy by offering FIND IT and GET IT options via their VDX system.
"In 2008 we introduced online end user requesting through the VDX software system, branded as Get It. This allowed all eligible staff and students to access the service without having to manually register, which had previously deterred many users. We linked Get It directly to Find It (our OpenURL link resolver) so that users could make requests directly from citation information using the seamless OpenURL technology."
From 2007-2009 Make it Easy showed a 70% increase in requests.
The use of monographs is high in the arts, humanities and social sciences but not in science, medicine, technology.
Helen and Kael surmise that increased ILL activity could be a result of decreased budgets, less monographs are being purchased. Also as there is more online exposure, there is greater demand.
They found that 80% of ILLs were available for purchase and think more institutions are opting for 'just in time" rather than "just in case".
So far e-books have not impacted on ILLs. Clients have actually been requesting printed versions after they have looked at the e-book.
They also spoke about how ILLs could assist in Collection Development.
3. Unmediated Delivery: A Helicopter View Helen Thurlow State Library of Queensland, QLD Abstract Paper
Helen is also with NSLA and spoke of their aim for One Library, Transforming library culture, and Accessible content. Again we hear that we need to move from process oriented practice to client oriented practice. To look at things from the Borrowing perspective rather than the Lending perspective.
Most challenging across the libraries involved has been the registration and identification of your clients.
Helen spoke about being aware of the commercial competition for our services and recommended having a look at the Rethinking Resource Sharing Manifesto.
So let's get to it for our customers. We just need e-payment thru an e-commerce system to start posting items direct to homes.
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre 1 – 3 September 2010
Report by Dianne Ollerenshaw. Thanks to Jacinta for arranging our library access to web streaming for various presentations. My events were focussed on resource sharing and I have made notes on bits that peaked my interest. Please use the links to read the whole paper.
1.30-3.00 pm Collective Wealth, Global Sharing, Global Resources / Chair Graham Black.
1. Invited Speaker - NSLA Libraries Working Towards Seamless Access - Discover to Delivery Vicky Carlyon, State Library of Western Australia, WA Abstract Paper
Two of the presenters I listened to were from NSLA. NSLA is commissioned to Re-imagine Libraries.
(National & State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) represents the National, State and Territory Libraries of Australia and New Zealand. The libraries are National Library of Australia (NLA); National Library of New
Zealand (NLNZ); ACT Library & Information Services (ACTLIS); State Library of South Australia (SLSA);
State Library of Western Australia (SLWA); Northern Territory Library (NTL) ; State Library of
Queensland (SLQ); State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW); State Library of Tasmania (SLT) and
State Library of Victoria (SLV).)
Vicky is on the committee working on Delivery. They began in 2008 and are half way through the project which is focussing on delivering books and copies direct to clients in their home or wherever.
In the age of new online services, people want simple and quick options for the delivery of library content.
Challenges the committe has found include:
- distance - technical difficulties with web conferences - one day of face to face meeting achieved the same as five web conferences .
- Between the libraries there are four library management systems and three interlibrary loan systems.
- Whole of government contracts for the various State Governments make it difficult to look at any single delivery option.
Vicky recommended having a look at the Montana Home Delivery Service.
2. Doc Del is Dead! Long Live ILL! Helen Balfour & Kael DriscollUniversity of Western Australia, WA Abstract Paper
Helen and Kael demonstrated that over the last few years interlending at UWA has increased markedly while document delivery has declined. With more journals being available electronically, and the increase in e-books it was expected ILL/DD would fade away.
Since 2003 there has been a steady increase in loans. Copy requests began to decline in 2003, but since 2008 have started to increase again.
They have focussed on making online requesting easy by offering FIND IT and GET IT options via their VDX system.
"In 2008 we introduced online end user requesting through the VDX software system, branded as Get It. This allowed all eligible staff and students to access the service without having to manually register, which had previously deterred many users. We linked Get It directly to Find It (our OpenURL link resolver) so that users could make requests directly from citation information using the seamless OpenURL technology."
From 2007-2009 Make it Easy showed a 70% increase in requests.
The use of monographs is high in the arts, humanities and social sciences but not in science, medicine, technology.
Helen and Kael surmise that increased ILL activity could be a result of decreased budgets, less monographs are being purchased. Also as there is more online exposure, there is greater demand.
They found that 80% of ILLs were available for purchase and think more institutions are opting for 'just in time" rather than "just in case".
So far e-books have not impacted on ILLs. Clients have actually been requesting printed versions after they have looked at the e-book.
They also spoke about how ILLs could assist in Collection Development.
3. Unmediated Delivery: A Helicopter View Helen Thurlow State Library of Queensland, QLD Abstract Paper
Helen is also with NSLA and spoke of their aim for One Library, Transforming library culture, and Accessible content. Again we hear that we need to move from process oriented practice to client oriented practice. To look at things from the Borrowing perspective rather than the Lending perspective.
Most challenging across the libraries involved has been the registration and identification of your clients.
Helen spoke about being aware of the commercial competition for our services and recommended having a look at the Rethinking Resource Sharing Manifesto.
So let's get to it for our customers. We just need e-payment thru an e-commerce system to start posting items direct to homes.
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