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Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

This conference poster presentation illustrates that by stepping beyond the traditional borders of the library and engaging with local communities, a tertiary library is able to play its part in fostering and developing information literacy, art, culture, and language in the wider community. This also provides positive exposure for the library service and the tertiary institute as a whole and could result in higher student retention rate in the future.

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

This conference poster presentation illustrates how an academic library used data as a baseline to demand changes to be made to the existing physical space in the library.

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

This conference poster presentation looks at the concept of Digital Thinking application in libraries, with a human-centered focus on how the digital future may impact the ways information and library professionals work.

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

This conference paper shares the experience of ongoing job redesign efforts by the Public Libraries of the National Library Board Singapore (NLB).

The impetus for job redesign arises from the need to build a responsive future ready workforce, competent in both functional and professional skills to deliver the Smart Libraries of the Future. NLB’s aim is to develop a future ready work force through:

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

[Peer reviewed] This conference paper aims to initiate a discussion and reflective thought on how committed we are to accessibility. In this case the issues are discussed in relation to a desire for restrictions by Māori and other indigenous peoples. How different from our ideals is the reality and practice of our profession especially when it involves indigenous knowledge?

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

This conference paper discusses the challenge in ensuring students have access to library based learning resources at their point of need; whilst also having skills and background to be able to correctly use the resources.

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

[Peer reviewed] This conference paper discusses the emerging trend in librarianship to rely on evidence and data, rather than opinion and anecdotes, to guide the planning, delivery, and assessment of library services that are truly user-oriented.

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

These notes accompany the slides presented at the talk discussing the contribution of the student voice to school library decision making.

Student voice is integral to a healthy school library.  It is no good me buying books and resources that my experience determines solely.  It must be a collaborative decision via students while still supporting the curriculum. Student voice occurs in the School Library via:

Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference 2018, 30 July - 2 August 2018 Gold Coast: Roar Leap Dare

This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) accompanied the talk on the results of the Health Libraries for National Standards (HeLiNS) research project.