ALIA REPOSITORY
Doing our part to end the "book famine": UQ's eBook accessibility project
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This conference paper discusses a project undertaken by the University of Queensland library which explored the accessibility of a range of ebook platforms commonly encountered by students and how well these platforms serve library clients with a print disability.
Resource sharing: is the party over?
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This conference paper discusses national resource sharing practices in Australia.
A missed opportunity? eBooks and public libraries in Australia
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This conference paper provides an analysis of collection, circulation and customer data relating to eBook lending statistics.
Contemporary collecting: collecting Instagram for local studies
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This conference paper discusses a project undertaken by the State Library of New South Wales and three public libraries which tested the harvesting of social media content for local studies collections.
Beyond time and space: using AI to solve client service challenges now and into the future
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This conference paper discusses the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in providing solutions to the challenges in fulfilling library client service requests 24/7.
Transforming collection description
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This conference paper explores how the National Library of Australia has transformed collection description and access for its digital heritage collections. The fundamental change from an item-by-item process, to large-scale data collection achieves efficiencies, enables rapid access, and allows the collection of previously complex electronic formats from publishers, photographers and donors.
National edeposit (NED): capturing and preserving the digital documentary history of Australia
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This paper "National edeposit (NED): an innovative solution meeting the challenge of capturing and preserving the digital documentary history of Australia" accompanied the talk on an online service for the deposit, archiving, management, discovery and delivery of published electronic material across Australia.
Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata using Zotero
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
This conference paper provides an introduction to Wikidata and Zotero.
Wikidata is managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, the same group responsible for Wikipedia. According to the Wikidata website, “Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.”
ALIA information online 2019: conference program
ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Sydney: Infinite Possibilities
The ALIA Information Online Conference has been held since 1990 and attracts over one thousand influential professionals from all sectors of the library industry. The conference gives access to key library and information service professionals from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, and beyond.
ALIA information online 2017: conference program
ALIA Information Online 2017 Conference, 13-17 February 2017 Sydney: Data Information Knowledge