Reference at the Metcalfe 2015

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Reference at the Metcalfe 2015

By NSW Reference and Information Services Group in partnership with Public Library Services, State Library of NSW

Date and time

Wed, 20 May 2015 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM AEST

Location

Metcalfe Auditorium

Macquarie St Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Description

Reference at the Metcalfe will be exploring privacy, catalogues, roving services and much more.


The Library Freedom Project, led by Alison Macrina was awarded $244,700 grant funding from the Knight Foundation to provide librarians and their patrons with tools and information to better understand their digital rights by scaling a series of privacy workshops for librarians. Alison will be presenting online for this seminar, The work of Al Jazeera will be discussed as they have done useful work on privacy. This work shows implications for information service delivery and in terms of information libraries are tracking too.


Current reference skills will be discussed as will how to make your catalogue more effective, and much more.


Draft program

9.45 Welcome and housekeeping

10.00 - 11.00 Alison Macrina from Massachusetts. Privacy in browsing, being aware about how much information is being shared, what people are agreeing to - user education elements, and what staff should know about

11 - 11.15 Terms of Service [Al Jazeera America] - relevant information about privacy

11.15 - 12.00 What are the reference skills needed to work in a public library now, and to be ready for whatever happens in the future? John Taggart from Manly and Cathy Johnston from Coffs Harbour will discuss what does the skill set look like - including those put forward by Meredith Farkas. Participants in the seminar will be involved in this discussion.


12.00 - 1.00 lunch - provided by the State Library of NSW


1.00 - 1.45 How does your catalogue help you? What can be done to make more resources more findable? Martin Boyce from Sutherland will share some ideas and examples.

1.45 - 2.00 The State Library hosted a seminar on Maker spaces 6 May. What are the implications of these for information services? How can you connect making and information? What are the implications of being able to provide a 3D printout as part of the answer to a reference or information question? Jennifer Wilson will explore these ideas.

2.00 - 2.40 No more desk. Staff from Taree and Tamworth will talk about how going deskless changed their information service delivery. This will be a timely follow on from sessions in previous years on roving services.

2.40 - 3.15 10 slides in 5 minutes session - your opportunity to find out what is happening in libraries across NSW

3.15 - 4.00 tbc


This seminar has been running since 2004.


You can buy a bag or a t-shirt to celebrate the seminar.risg2015 t-shirt


If you are tweeting, taking photographs or discussing on social media, please use #risg2015



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