Professional

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

2008 – now Emerging Technologies Specialist, Murdoch University Library, Perth Western Australia

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

• emergent technology training in libraries
• how Web2.0 will change library culture, and the best way to make this a smooth transition
• informal and highly effective learning gatherings – unconferences, barcamps, communities of practice.
• Open Source Software
• screencasting, videocasting and podcasting for regular library folk
• the relationship between library spaces and their web sites
• Multi User Virtual Environments and education
• super duper shiny new web toys
• collaborating with far flung library folk
• using new technologies to help the technological “have nots”
• how to balance raising a family and library work
• how technology use in the K-12 sector will affect students’ expectations of university teaching
• what the next generation of undergraduates will expect from us
  • what we will be able to give them
  • how we will serve the most tech-savvy among them.
• how we can loosen up what we do enough to listen and change as needed.

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Coming up

June 2009 Panel member on Reality 2.0 – dealing with innovation in today’s information world . State Library of Western Australia. Perth, Western Australia.

9-11 February 2010 Invited paper as VALA Travel Scholarship Awardee at VALA 15th Biennial Conference and Exhibition: Connections, Content, Conversations Topic: Open Source Library Software: what it does and common factors among libraries developing it.

Ongoing

July 2006 – present Part of the team that writes and administers the Australian Library blogs librariesinteract.info: blog central for Australian libraries.

April 2006 – present I write my own blog, Librarians Matter.

2009

8 May 2009 – Recipient of the Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship,  awarded to a female librarian or female student of librarianship for an outstanding original paper of no more than 5000 words on any aspect of librarianship for the paper, Why Learning about emerging technologies is part of every librarian’s job (WORD doc).

4 May 2009 Peer Reviewed conference paper, Why Learning About Emerging Technologies is part of every librarian’s job at the Educause Australasia 2009 Conference

4 May 2009 Symposium,Personal Learning Environments: what works for librarians Panel discussion with Con Wiebrands, Peta Hopkins and Penny Coutas and symposium participants . Educause Australasia 2009

23 April 2009 Presentation, What kind of “better than free” is your library?.at the  U Game U Learn Symposium Delft, The Netherlands

31 March 2009 Unconferences . 1:30 – 2:15pm Panel with John Blyberg, Steve Lawson and Stephen Francouer . Computers in Libraries Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

26, 27 March 2009 Plenary speaker  at In the Foothills: A Not-Quite-Summit on the Future of Libraries . Spoke on “The Technological Revolution *is* a social revolution”. Darien Library, Connecticut , United States of America. Thoughts and discussions on the day led to the writing of the  Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians with John Blyberg and Cindi Trainor .

10 March 2009 – 18 April 2009 Traveled the United States on the VALA travel scholarship to look at Alternative Discovery Layers and Open Source Software .

6 March 2009 LocLib Conference.  Perth, Western Australia. Session on lifestreaming, podcasting, vodcasting, machinima, microblogging, screencasting, slidecasting,We are all making new media: what libraries need to know

2008

23 December 2008 One of six finalists in the Australian Library and Information Association Information Online Excellence Award

5 December 2008 Awarded the Nada Nadanasabapathy Library Innovation and  Outstanding Service Award , Murdoch University Library

1 December 2008 Nominated for an Edublog Award for the Best Use of Video / Visual 2008 for Murdoch University Island in Second Life

23 November 2008 Beyond keyboard and mouse: how alternative input devices are changing education Academic Work Matters series,  Murdoch University

20 November 2008 Awarded the 2008 VALA Travel Scholarship to travel to the United States to investigate alternative discovery layers and Open Source Library Management Systems .

4 November 2008 Creating scripted objects to go in Second Life Libraries – for people without geek superpowers , workshop at Poropitia: Outside the Box conference,  Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa , Auckland, New Zealand

4 November 2008 The library unconference: a new model for better professional communication joint paper with Constance Wiebrands at Poropitia: Outside the Box conference,  Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa , Auckland, New Zealand

9 October 2008 Keynote for the Cultural Connections: MySpace is an ArtSpace: ARLIS/ANZ Biennial Conference Brisbane.

8 October 2008 Emerging Media session at the State Library of Queensland about the work I am doing at Murdoch University.

November 2006 – October 2008 Co-ordinated the Australian Libraries building in Cybrary City in Second Life.

17 September 2008 The Art of Exploring Second Life: creating an avatar and exploring libraries . Half day workshop, Murdoch University Perth. Satellite event to the Art of Information Australian Law Librarians Association Conference

18 September 2008 Lawyers, law librarians and Second Life paper for the Art of Information Australian Law Librarians Association Conference

9 September 2008 … but I don’t have time, and THEY don’t get it”: finding time and reasons to learn about emerging technologies . Speaker Collections and the Web Perth. Seminar presented by Collections Australia Network Scitech, Perth.

22 August 2008 Part of the team unorganising the Western Australian Library unconference 2009, Library2.0 and beyond: getting our hands dirty

28 June 2008 Facilitated a discussion How to be a good trendspotter and an early adopter , for the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia’s Web2.0 and School Libraries Unconference , Guildford Grammar School, Perth.

26 June 2008 Presentation about Second Life and Libraries for TEL-SIG group of Academic Librarians’  in New Zealand. Part of the conference Libraries of the seven C’s .

9 May 2008 Ran day long hands-on training Exploring Second Life on behalf of CAVAL. Sydney – Saxons Training Facilities 9:30am – 4:30 am

12 May 2008 Ran day long hands-on training Exploring Second Life on behalf of CAVAL. Melbourne – Saxons Training Facilities 9:30am – 4:30 am

24 April 2008 Guest lecture to library students about what Murdoch University Library is doing in Second Life for Edith Cowan University students, Mt Lawley.

22 April 2008 Get a Second Life! . Interview via Second Life for the State Library of Victoria and Australian Library and Information Association’s “Outside the box” event.

1-2 February 2008 Web 2.0 : Beyond the Hype, Brisbane.

• 1 Feb Workshop on Second Life and Libraries
• 2 Feb Hot Topic Presentation, Five Social Software Sites that Libraries shouldn’t ignore,

5-7 February 2008 Presented two papers at the VALA conference Libraries: Changing spaces, virtual places. 1. “Do we remove all the walls? Second Life Librarianship” and 2. “Libraries interact: collaboration and community in the Australian library blogosphere” (joint author).

2007

December 21st Book chapter published:

Greenhill, Kathryn, Jones, Margaret and McKay, Jean 2007 Chat Commons and Collaboration: inadvertently Library 2.0 in Western Australia in Cohen, Laura B. 2007. Library 2.0 initiatives in academic libraries. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. (Book/ wiki hybrid. Wiki component is at: Library 2.0 initiatives in academic libraries ).

November 29th Plenary session at the “Library of the Future” forum for the Learning Resources Network Services Network, hosted by Challenger TAFE in Fremantle – Five Social Software Sites that Libraries Shouldn’t Ignore.

November 26th Librarians Matter nominated as Best library / librarian blog 2007 in the 2007 Edublog awards

November 23rd Murdoch University Library gets a Second Life. Presentation for Western Australian academic libraries’ Teaching and Learning Sharecase.

October 27 Blog Fodder . Session at Podcamp Perth .

October 11th What is Library 2.0? Keynote guest speaker for the State Library of Queensland Unconference

October 10th Presentation, Second Life, libraries, universities and Murdoch University Library. Plus one hour workshop about doing more with avatars in Second Life, plus panel discussion for the QULOC Social Software and Libraries one day event, Brisbane.

August 14th Part live chat, part streamed presentation about Libraries in Second Life for the University of Southern Queensland’s Faculty of Education Symposium Online Learning Using Virtual Worlds

August 3rd Presentation Finding Time to Learn about Emerging Technologies at Library 2.0 on the loose unconference, Perth Western Australia

August 3rd Part of the team unorganising the Western Australian Library unconference, Library2.0 on the loose

July 27th Invited to be part of a focus group for the Carrick Exchange in Melbourne.

July 23rd Presented at Libraries, Web2.0 and Other Internet Stuff, State Library of Victoria about Virtual Libraries: Real Librarians: What libraries are doing in Second Life and how you can join in .

May 18th – July 13th Series of workshops for Murdoch University Community to learn about Second Life. “Creating your avatar” and “Doing more with your avatar”.

June 20th Murdoch Uni Library gets a Second Life. Enhanced podcast streamed into Second Life during the Second Life In-World Presentation: Showcasing Australasian Educational Projects in Second Life. Part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s E-Learning Networks Online Conference.

April 24th Talk for staff at the State Library of Western Australia, “Flying Librarians of Oz:What’s all the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to do with Libraries?” .

January – March 2007 Presenter in the “Five Weeks to a Social Library” course. My presentation was A puppy with a new ball: engaging library staff in social networking tools during the MULTA project.

February 15th – February 20th Aurora Leadership Institute

February 14th Public talk at the National Library of Australia, Flying Librarians of Oz:What’s all the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to do with libraries? as part of their “Digital Culture” series.

February 9th Talk to Western Australian Academic Libraries “Flying Librarians of Oz:What’s all the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to do with Libraries?” .

2006

• July Joint presenter at a workshop at the State Library of Western Australia on blogging in libraries. Launched blog the conf , an informal attendees’ record of ALIA’s Click06 Conference.
• June . Gave paper about MULTA at CARCIT (Collaborative Action for Reference Competencies and Information Technology).
• May – September . Designed and facilitated a two month collaborative project (MULTA) for Murdoch University Library staff to read about, use and discuss new web tools.

ANCIENT HISTORY

1997 – 2005

• Career break while raising two sons and caring for elderly parents.

1997

• Chairperson of the Electronic Information Standing Committee, a joint public library/LISWA communications forum examining more efficient ways to use electronic resources co-operatively.

1996

• Spoke on Information technology in public libraries at the seminar “Don’t you just stamp books ?” organised by the ALIA Public Libraries Section.
• On organising committee for the ALIA RAISS section’s Internet Fair held at Curtin University, and gave a paper about Authoring web pages using skills you already have as a librarian.

1995

• Authored and published the first World Wide Web pages for a Western Australian Public library.
• I was on a WALGLA (W.A. Local Government Librarians Association) committee of public librarians examining options for co-operative Internet usage in public libraries
• I designed and facilitated a seminar for around 60 public librarians entitled Public libraries and the Internet – We know what it does, now what do we want to do with it?
• Part of the group of Public librarians who examined the tenders for LISWA’s new computer system

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• 1989 Bachelor of Arts (Theatre Studies), University of Western Australia
• 1990 Graduate Diploma of Information and Library Studies, Curtin University of Technology
• 1992 – now Associate membership of the Australian Library and Information Association, including Continuing Professional Development scheme.
• 1994 Train the trainer course
• 2000 Accredited Course in Group Facilitation

RELEVANT WORK HISTORY

• 2005 – 2007 Reference Librarian/Philosophy Subject Librarian/Emerging Technology Librarian, Murdoch University Library (half time)
• 2000 – 2004 Reference Librarian, Murdoch University Library (4 hr per week)
• 1997 – 2005 Career break while raising two children and caring for elderly parents
• December 1992 – July 1994 and Sept 1995 – December 1997 Systems Librarian, City of Armadale
• July 1994 – September 1995 .Community Information Officer, Fremantle City Library
• August 1992 – December 1992 Librarian Cataloguer, KPMG Peat Marwick, Perth
• December 1991 – August 1992 Extended Holiday in Hobart while my partner completed his PhD.
• August 1990 – December 1991 Legal librarian/ researcher, Medium Sized Law Firm, Barristers and Solicitors, Perth
• February 1987 – August 1990 Library attendant, University of Western Australia