Staff papers 2007

Here you will find papers published and/or presented by National Library staff at public forums on a wide range of subjects.

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2007

Music Australia: from development to production service
This paper on Music Australia was presented by Robyn Holmes at the
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRES (IAML) Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1-6 July 2007

This international conference was hosted by IAML Australia and the paper has been published in Fontes artis musicae. No. 55/1. January-March 2008

Transforming access to Australia’s documentary history The 2007 Ferguson Memorial Lecture presented on 29 August 2007 by Dr Warwick Cathro. At the invitation of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Ferguson Hall, St. Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney

Federated discovery opportunities for Australia’s collecting institutions A presentation on 8 August 2007 by Dr Warwick Cathro to the Standards Australia Forum, “Standards and Cultural Sector Resource Sharing”, Sydney

Was automation the Answer?
A paper by Margarita Moreno and Anne, National Library of Australia at the 10th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference on Tuesday, 30 October 2007. This paper and presentation provides a brief overview of the Australian Interlibrary loan and document delivery environment and a more detailed look at the processes and automation used by the National Library of Australia. Presentation (pdf, 1.2MB)

Election 2007
A paper by Edgar Crook, Senior Librarian, Web Archiving Section, National Library of Australia. This paper discusses the archiving and use of the Internet during the 2007 Australian Federal Election.

Lock, Stock and Two Administrators
A paper by David Ong, Manager, Libraries Australia Customer Services, National Library of Australia and George Panagiotidis, Information Systems Specialist, CAVAL Collaborative Solutions. This paper shares the methodology, successes and lessons learnt from 4 years of interoperation.

PANDORA : Collecting in a Digital World. Where is the Artefact?
The text of a presentation by Paul Koerbin at the ALIA symposium The Acquisition of Cultural Artefacts held at the University of South Australia in October 2007.

Subject Cataloguing: faster, better, cheaper
A paper presented by Wan Wong and Alison Dellit on 7 September 2007 at the ACOC Seminar.

AskNow Instant Messaging: innovation in virtual reference
From December 2006 to June 2007, the National Library of Australia ran a pilot Instant Messaging reference service alongside the national virtual reference service AskNow. An article on the pilot has recently been published in the Australian Library Journal (Vol 56, No 2, 2007).

The National Library of Australia: Open access to Open Publish
Bobby Graham presented a paper on 12 July 2007 at the First International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference in Vancouver.

Rethinking the Catalogue
A paper presented by Kent Fitch and Alison Dellit on 19 April 2007 at the Innovative Ideas Forum, National Library of Australia.

The Creative Editor: Publishing at the National Library of Australia
Susan Hall attended the bi-annual Insitute of Professional Editors National Conference held in Hobart 9-11 May. Her  presentation focussed on the new children's and biography lists and the more proactive role Publications are taking in commissioning and shaping the list in response to market demand and user testing.

PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive: how much metadata is enough?
A paper by Margaret Phillips and Paul Koerbin published in the Journal of Internet Cataloging, v. 7, issue 2 (cover date 2004, published in 2007).

Taming the Tasman: international interlending under the Southern Cross
A paper written by David Ong, Natasha Simons and David Reid (NLNZ), published in Interlending & Document Supply Journal, Vol. 35, 2007. It explores the issues associated with the implementation of Trans Tasman Interlending and its subsequent success.

Digitisation in Australasia
An paper by Warwick Cathro published in Serials.

AONS - An obsolescence detection and notification service for web archives and digital repositories. A joint article by J. Curtis and P. Koerbin of the National Library of Australia, P. Raftos and D. Berriman of the Australian National University and J. Hunter of the University of Queensland. Published in a special web archiving issue (vol. 13, issue 1, January 2007) of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia.

The Pacific collections of the National Library of Australia
A paper by Susan Woodburn, presented on 26 January 2006 at the Pacific in Australia - Australia in the Pacific conference, Brisbane.

Managing the retirement brain drain
A paper by Bronwyn Ryan, Renee Shuttleworth and Beth Lonergan, presented on 2 December 2006 at the ALIA New Librarians' Symposium, Sydney.

Relevance ranking of results from MARC-based catalogues: from guidelines to implementation exploiting structured metadata
A paper presented by Alison Dellit and Tony Boston at Information Online 2007

Writing for the web
A paper presented by Bobby Graham on 9 December 2006 to the ACT Writers Centre and on 9 February 2007 to the Australian Customs Service.

Open Publish: open access to scholarly research
A paper presented by Bobby Graham on 1 February at Information Online 2007

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