Information Studies News
Welcome to Information Studies at Curtin.
September is a busy month, especially in 2011
- Catching up with current and past students is always a must for staff. Kathryn Greenhill and Gaby Haddow met up with many at the ALIA NLS conference held in Perth in September 2011; and Pauline Joseph did likewise at the RIMPA conference in Darwin, also in September.
- There were many current and past students at the 2011 New Norcia Library lecture on September 9 to hear Parliamentary Librarian Roxanne Missingham as keynote speaker. Head of Department Assoc Prof Kerry Smith gave a second talk on Preserving the information commons: libraries, Google, and monks and all attendees were treated to a wonderful tour behind the gate at the Monastery.
2011 Information Online conference
Earlier in the year, Gaby Haddow Kathryn Greenhill and Kerry Smith joined former students who were attending the 2011 Information Online conference for breakfast:
Curtin Information Studies at the Information Online Conference
January 2009
The Information Online conference for 2009 has come and gone and the papers should be available from the conference website soon: http://www.information-online.com.au/
Curtin Information Studies was well represented at the conference: Gaby Haddow gave a paper co-authored with Paul Genoni (Curtin Information Studies) and Petra Dumbell (a recent student, now working at the Curtin University Library), titled: Assessing the impact of Australian journals in the social sciences and humanities. Glenn Pass and Kerry Smith attended as delegates. Choosing sessions was not easy as there seemed to be something for everyone. Kerry took in quite a bit on e-repositories (and there is no one approach here which surprised her), lending rights, copyright… Gaby was interested in the keynotes and papers which discussed Gen Ys, including a presentation about an initiative of the State Library of Victoria to encourage teenager reading. The website is called ‘Inside a dog’ and well worth a look – even if it is only to discover the origin of the name. Glenn focused on the use of emerging technologies, particularly the application of Web2.0 within libraries. The Trade Exhibition provided a wealth of information about new products and services being offered by vendors within the information industry.
There were many events to attend before, during and after each conference day. So many in fact, that we were delighted when some former and current students joined us for breakfast at the very cute Terakaza Café in the Oaks Goldsbrough Apartments in Darling Harbour. The building is amazing: the architects have retained many of the interior huge wooden supports and the apartments have been built around this structure. This photo of the happy breakfast group does not capture the architecture:
L-R: Vanessa Salway, Amanda Saunders, Roberta Cowan, Gaby, Glenn (holding court :-),
Fiona Bradley, Nikki Jovicic, Andrew Hocken, Emma Taylor (was Walton)
We were also delighted to learn that current student Nikki Jovicic was the winner of the ALIA Information Online Registration grant! Here is Nikki hard at work at the Gove District Hospital Library in the NT before the conference:
Nikki Jovicic
