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Aceresearch : Promoting The Visibility Of Educational Research Through An Institutional Repository, Lance Deveson Oct 2013

Aceresearch : Promoting The Visibility Of Educational Research Through An Institutional Repository, Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

ACEReSearch is the research repository at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The author presents an overview of the evolution and development of this open access online resource.


Bolde Research Bank - Blended, Online Learning & Distance Education (Power Point Presentation), Lance Deveson Oct 2013

Bolde Research Bank - Blended, Online Learning & Distance Education (Power Point Presentation), Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

A power point presentation describing the history and features of the Blended, Online Learning and Distance Education (BOLDE) research bank.


Open Culture At The Heart Of The University: Libraries As Multicommons, Anna K. Gold Sep 2013

Open Culture At The Heart Of The University: Libraries As Multicommons, Anna K. Gold

Anna K. Gold

The university library can be reconceptualized as a powerful engine for open culture. A generative and regenerative center that naturally brings disciplines, cultures, and generations together, the university library can expand its role in open culture far beyond sharing institutionally-produced research and data through open repositories. Drawing on the experience of a public polytechnic university, this presentation documents the emergence of a university library as a system of open culture programs and as a place where a speeding culture can stop to dialogue, think, and create: generating collective interactive learning; fostering collaboration with open data; cultivating open conversations and learning …


What’S The Future Of Systems Librarian And Systems Librarianship?, Xiaohua (Cindy) Li, Hong Ma Jan 2013

What’S The Future Of Systems Librarian And Systems Librarianship?, Xiaohua (Cindy) Li, Hong Ma

Xiaohua (Cindy) Li

There has not been a clear definition of what a system librarian should be, and the definition now is even blurry. Since cloud computing becomes the paradigm for many organizations to manage their IT infrastructure and the advancement of library discovery services start to break the traditional model of the functions of library automation systems, the nature of system librarian jobs is undergoing dramatic changes. The uncertainty of the future arouses the concerns of system librarians. Facing the transformation that technology brings to the library world, system librarians have to choose either to sink in the sea change or take …