Centre for Information Studies

Coming Soon

2010-06-21T09:37:00.006+10:00

Visionary Leaders for Information.

Arthur Winzenried (2010)

ISBN: 978 1876938 85 7

The Centre for Information Studies is proud to announce its latest publication, coming July 5th, 2010.

Dr Arthur Winzenried holds a Diploma of Teaching (Prim), a BA (Hon) from Melbourne University, Victoria, a PhD (Arts) in history from Monash University, Victoria and a PhD (Applied Science) in Information Systems from Charles Sturt University, NSW. His working experience has been varied in the extreme; teaching for five years tertiary, five years primary, eighteen years secondary and a teacher librarian for fifteen years. He is currently a lecturer at Charles Sturt University and providing library consultation to several schools in Melbourne. His work in the information and knowledge management field is now world recognised. A regular speaker at national and international conferences, in recent times he has addressed meetings in London, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Perth (WA) and a range of locations within Australia. Arthur is a well-published author with more than twenty monographs to his name, together with a large number of essays, book chapters and professional papers.

Latest Publication from CIS - Practising Information Literacy

2010-06-16T14:46:00.003+10:00

The Centre for Information Studies is proud to announce its latest publication, Practising Information Literacy: Bringing Theories of Learning, Practice and Information Literacy Together.

Information literacy provides a central scaffold for participation and learning in all areas of work, education and everyday life. This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher education, workplaces, and community contexts. The studies offer new insights into questions such as how transferable are the information practices and skills learned in one context to other contexts? What is the degree to which information competences are generic, to what degree are they domain and context specific? What are the kinds of challenges and outcomes that emerge from incorporating information literacy into education and training courses? And, most importantly, what kinds of theories and philosophies regarding the nature of learning, information, and knowledge, should information literacies education and research efforts be based on?

This book was edited by Annemaree Lloyd & Sanna Talja and is available to order on the Centre's website.

RAILS 6 Seminar - Promoting research in the profession

2009-12-01T12:12:00.013+11:00

Friday 22 January 2010

CSU Canberra Campus (The Australian Centre for Culture and Christianity)

The next RAILS (Research Applications in Library Science) 6 seminar will continue to build on the theme of previous seminars linking research with practice.
Research-active practitioners, academics, research students and recipients of research awards in the field of librarianship and information studies are invited to use this opportunity to share their ideas and research work with others.
RAILS 6 is being organized by the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, and will be held on the Canberra Campus (The Australian Centre for Culture and Christianity), on Friday 22nd January, 2010. This campus enjoys a peaceful setting in a bush environment next to Lake Burley Griffin. For educators, there will also be a day long meeting prior to the Conference on Thursday 21st to be held at the National Library of Australia.

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2009-09-23T15:50:00.009+10:00

Empowering Users Conference - NLA

Thursday 5th November 2009, Hobart

Empowering users – what can we do to facilitate creation, discovery, use and transformation of our collections?

In July 2008, NSLA (National and State Libraries Australasia) published a paper, Re-imagining library services, outlining the strategies they considered essential in order that libraries remain at the heart of their communities while making the fundamental shifts necessary to meet the needs of users who, more than ever, are contributors as well as consumers, of the digital world.

This seminar, the fourth in a series jointly supported by the National Library of Australia, Charles Sturt University and ALIA is intended to provide both a broad overview, with examples, of what this means for libraries and information agencies in strategy and in practice. In addition, a number of speakers will address specific approaches being undertaken in order to ‘re-imagine’ the services they offer.

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Program:
9.00am Welcome and introductions
9.10am Opening, Jan Fullerton, Director-General, National Library of Australia
9.20am Wendy Quihampton,

Re-imagining Libraries – Delivering on NSLA’s Vision

There has been a fundamental shift - Australians and New Zealanders turn to the Internet as their first choice for information, to obtain services and to access global culture. Information-seeking now happens online. At the same time, the number of people coming through the doors of our libraries is increasing. NSLA’s re-imagining of libraries for the digital age puts people at the centre of our services, and focuses on making our content available to everyone.

10.00am Vic Elliot, ANU

Beyond Platitudes: Challenge and Change in Academic Libraries

For a decade or more, the nature and role of the university library within its parent institution and the academic enterprise have undergone rapid change. Such change generates its own set of challenges but is also in itself the product of attempts to confront and meet enduring challenges of a different kind. This paper explores the relationship between challenge and change in the context of the academic library.

10.35am Morning Tea
10.55am Lloyd Sokvitne, Manager Digital Strategies, State Library of Tasmania Carmel Denholm, Senior Cataloguer (Metadata), State Library of Tasmania

A Digital Island

An exploration of the State Library of Tasmania’s provision of a set of services around its (digital) island, including Tasmania Online (http://www.tas.gov.au/) a unique response by a State Library to index web content, Service Tasmania Online (http://www.service.tas.gov.au/) for government information, Our Digital Island (http://odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/) for preserved websites and STORS (http://www.stors.tas.gov.au/) an electronic document repository.

11.35am Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing, National Library of Australia

A national framework for improving access to e-resources

E-resources, licensed by Australian libraries, are an under-used part of our library collections. The National Library has an interest in establishing a national framework which would encourage greater use of e-resources, especially in the national/state/public library sector, by improving ease of access. The Library's interest stems from its responsibility for two e-resource consortia (the NSLA Consortium and ERA) and from its leadership role in the NSLA Open Borders Project. During 2009 the Library has examined some options for establishing a better national framework. The Library's current thinking will be summarised in this presentation.

12.15pm Lunch
1.15pm Rodney Foley, University of Tasmania

Trends in Integrated Library Systems: Are traditional Library System vendors going the way of the dinosaur?

Earlier this year the University of Tasmania conducted an investigation of the Integrated Library Systems environment. This presentation reflects on some of the conclusions and highlights issues that will affect the systems landscape in the future. Of particular note are the emergence of open source systems, including the Open Library Environment project (OLE), and the arrival of ‘cloud based’ solution within the library systems environment.

1.50pm Geoff Strempel, South Australia

Public Libraries: keeping true to foundation principles while moving into uncharted waters

The NSLA Re-imagining Library Services project, while influential, is one of many agendas impacting on public libraries. We will consider “re-imagining” along with broad societal, technological, related industry and library industry influences which are shaping the development of public libraries today.

2.25pm Pam Gatenby, Assistant Director-General Collections Management, National Library of Australia

Revealing library collections: streamlining collection description and enhancement

The public now expect to be able to find information about what libraries hold through commonly used search engines. However, this is not possible if the collections are not catalogued online. Libraries Australia includes good coverage of mainstream Australian publications but access to unpublished heritage materials and more difficult materials such as maps and ephemeral publications is patchy. Processing and cataloguing library collections can be a resource intensive and costly undertaking so in an environment of tightened budgets and increasing user expectations, it is necessary to find more streamlined and cost-efficient ways of describing collections and making them findable through online catalogues. This can entail re-assessment of ideas concerning record standards and quality and user expectations regarding access. A key challenge is to achieve more efficient and productive operations while also meeting the data requirements of new resource discovery services with sophisticated functionality that maximises exposure and discoverability of records. The paper will discuss these issues with reference to the work of the NSLA Re-imagining Libraries Description and Cataloguing Group and to related work being carried out by RLG Programs

3.10pm Afternoon tea
3.30pm Paul Reynolds
4.45pm Close followed by complimentary drinks from CSU Winery

2009-05-26T09:52:00.005+10:00

The CIS team

The Centre welcomes enquiries with regard to publishing, research and consultancy activities. Proposals for new publications, requests for research funding and consultancy tenders should be sent to:

The Directors
Centre for Information StudiesCharles Sturt University
Locked Bag 660
Wagga Wagga NSW 2650
Australia

For further information on any publication including enquiries regarding pricing and marketing, please contact:

Director

Roy Crotty
Lecturer School of Information Studies (SIS)
SIS website: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/
Email: rcrotty@csu.edu.au

Chelsea Kovacs
Acting Executive Officer
Centre for Information Studies
Email: ckovacs@csu.edu.au or cis@csu.edu.au

Latest publication from CIS - Organising Knowledge in a Global Society (rev.ed)

2008-08-15T13:04:00.002+10:00

The Centre for Information Studies is proud to announce its latest publication, Organising Knowledge in a Global Society (revised edition).

This book updates the successful first edition, which has been widely used as an introduction to the field of information organisation, both in Australia and overseas. The work reflects current practice and trends, paying particular attention to how libraries and other information services provide intellectual access to digital information resources through metadata. In this revision, the various information organisation components of the Web 2.0 phenomenon are discussed, including social tagging and folksonomies. Examples and case studies have been updated throughout.

This book was written by Philip Hider with Ross Harvey and is available to order on the Centre's website.

Latest publication from CIS - Exploring Methods in Information Literacy Research

2008-08-15T12:44:00.004+10:00

The Centre for Information Studies is proud to annouce its latest publication, Exploring Methods in Information Literacy Research.

This book aims to provide an overview of approaches to assist researchers and practitioners to explore ways of undertaking research in the information literacy field. The first chapter provides an introductory overview of research by Dr Kirsty Williamson (author of Research Methods for Students, Academics and Professionals) and this sets the scene for the rest of the chapters where each author explores the key aspects of a specific method and explains how it may be applied in practice.

Renowned information literacy researcher Dr Christine Bruce affirms the usefulness of the book: 'New researchers and early career professionals will appreciate the clarity of
the introductions provided' to each of the methods covered. This book was edited by Suzanne Lipu, Kirsty Williamson & Annemaree Lloyd. Please visit our website for further details regarding this publication and how to order.

Meet the CIS team

2008-03-05T14:34:00.022+11:00

The CIS team

The Centre welcomes enquiries with regard to publishing, research and consultancy activities. Proposals for new publications, requests for research funding and consultancy tenders should be sent to:

The Directors
Centre for Information Studies
Charles Sturt University
Locked Bag 660
Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia

For further information on any publication including enquiries regarding pricing and marketing, please contact:

Director

Roy Crotty

Adjunct LecturerSchool of Information Studies (SIS)

SIS website: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/

Email: rcrotty@csu.edu.au

Chelsea Kovacs

Acting Executive Officer
Centre for Information Studies
Email: cis@csu.edu.au

2005 Mander Jones Award

2008-01-21T15:17:00.000+11:00

Archives: Recordkeeping in Society was awarded the prestigious 2005 Mander Jones Award for "the publication making the greatest contribution to archives or a related field in Australia written by a person in their own right". The award honours Phyllis Mander Jones who, amongst other contributions to the archival profession, authored Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific in 1972. Michael Piggott received the award on behalf of the authors at the recent 2006 Australian Society of Archivists' Conference.

Evidence-based practice

2007-11-19T15:07:00.002+11:00

Evidence-based practice is becoming embedded across a range of professions (particularly within the field of healthcare). The concept is gaining strength in the library and information profession - see for example the open-access journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.

The Australian Library and Information Association supports the use of research to inform best practice in the information profession.

The Centre for Information Studies plays a role in this mission by providing a conduit to enable research to filter through into professional practice. One of the bestsellers from the CIS catalogue is Kirsty Williamson's Research Methods for Students, Academics and Professionals.

CIS also facilitates the open access publishing of research from Australia's information professionals by hosting freely available content from a range of high-profile events such as RAILS (Research Applications in Information and Library Studies). Please do explore CIS supported open access e-publications.

L21C launched at National Library of Australia

2007-10-24T13:46:00.001+10:00

Libraries in the Twenty-First Century was officially launched at the National Library of Australia.

Dr Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director General of Innovation at the NLA was kind enough to launch the publication with a speech in which he noted that the book filled a major gap by charting new directions in library and information management with chapters written by carefully selected experts.

The launch was well attended by a cross-section of library and information professionals from both within and without the National Library.

Director of the Centre for Information Studies, Damian Lodge, presents Dr Warwick Cathro with a bottle of Charles Sturt University wine in thanks for his role in launching Libraries in the Twenty-First Century.

Latest publication from CIS - Libraries in the Twenty-First Century

2007-10-24T13:40:00.000+10:00

The Centre for Information Studies is proud to announce its latest publication, Libraries in the twenty-first century.

Libraries in the twenty-first century brings together leading library educators and practitioners to provide a scholarly yet accessible overview of library and information management and the challenges that the twenty-first century offers the information profession.

The papers in this collection illustrate the changing nature of the library as it evolves into its twenty-first century manifestation.

Aimed at students and practitioners alike, Libraries in the twenty-first century covers specific types of library and information agencies, discusses specific aspects of library and information management and places developments in library and information services in a number of broad contexts: socio-economic, ethico-legal, historical and educational.

Welcome!

2007-10-12T16:07:00.000+10:00

Welcome to the Centre for Information Studies blog which will keep you informed of the latest publications and goings on at CIS.