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e-Book Reader trial at ADFA

My notes on a webinar I was at by Cathy Burgon on 07/04/2011. BackgroundA project was undertaken to review several e-book readers and decide which one to purchase and loan to students. The material on the e-book reader would be

tas666 June 3, 2011October 9, 2014 library, library 2.0, training, University of Canberra No Comments Read more

Social media in and out of the university classroom

My notes on a webinar I was at by Howard Rheingold on 29/03/2011.Twitter hashtag: #smuni About Howard RheingoldHoward is an expert in social media. He initially began teaching social media issues by using social media because there wasn’t much theorising

tas666 April 12, 2011October 9, 2014 library, training, University of Canberra, web 2.0 2 Comments Read more

EBL-James Bennett Textbook panel

I attended a discussion a few weeks ago on the possibility of e-textbooks being sold to libraries. Currently publishers will not sell electronic versions of textbooks to libraries because of the significant loss of income it would mean to them.

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ACOC 2010 – Describing resources in a web services world

The Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) 2010 seminar was held on October 21 at the National Library of Australia. I’ve summarised each of the talks below.Papers, presentations and audio are available at http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/papers2010.html Keynote Address – David Lindahl – eXtensible

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Using my phone for work (not as a phone)

Recently I purchased a brand new HTC Desire phone. It’s like an iPhone but doesn’t allow me to access Apple’s iStore. The software in the phone is called Android and has been designed by Google. It’s quite swish. HTC (and

tas666 July 4, 2010October 9, 2014 android, desire, htc, library 2 Comments Read more

Interesting theses

So I’ve spent the last few weeks faffing about in our archives doing a stocktake of our pre-1990 theses collection. In 1990, the Canberra College of Advanced Education (CCAE) became accredited as a university and tada, the University of Canberra

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University of Canberra Libraryland

Wow, university libraries are so different. I’ve been here a few weeks now and am amazed by some of the differences. 1. People are quite happy to listen to instruction. Me: Well I know you need to know about how

tas666 March 3, 2010October 9, 2014 library, University of Canberra 3 Comments Read more

New Library (already)

Oooh, talk about slack! Since I’ve been at Yarra I’ve posted 5 blog posts. That should equate to nearly one a month, but seeing as the last one was July…it doesn’t. Now, at prompting from Heather about being slack, here’s

tas666 December 29, 2009October 9, 2014 library, University of Canberra, Yarra 2 Comments Read more

Statistics: What to collect?

Statistics: What to collect?

As Technical Services Team Leader, one of my jobs is to gather the statistics we collect to prove that we are doing our job well (or not so well). When I started at my last job, statistics was one of

tas666 July 28, 2009October 9, 2014 library, statistics 1 Comment Read more

Upgrade upgrade upgrade

Well we performed Yarra’s fastest ever IT upgrade this week. After some mis-communication (I read something differently to my boss, and we were both wrong with how we read it anyway) we found out on Thursday afternoon that our library

tas666 July 14, 2009October 9, 2014 library, Symphony, Yarra 6 Comments Read more
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