CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2008 - now Emerging Technologies Specialist, Murdoch University Library, Perth Western Australia
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
- emergent technology training in libraries
- how Library2.0 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.
- screencasting, videocasting and podcasting for regular library folk
- the relationship between library spaces and their web sites
- Second Life libraries
- 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
9 May 2008 Day long hands-on training Exploring Second Life on behalf of CAVAL. Sydney - Saxons Training Facilities 9:30am - 4:30 am
12 May 2008 Day long hands-on training Exploring Second Life on behalf of CAVAL. Melbourne - Saxons Training Facilities 9:30am - 4:30 am
26 June 2008 Presentation about Second Life and Libraries for TelSig group of Academic Librarians in New Zealand.
9 October 2008 Keynote for the Cultural Connections: MySpace is an ArtSpace: ARLIS/ANZ Biennial Conference Brisbane.
Ongoing
March 2007 - now Co-ordinating the Library Emerging Technology Group for Murdoch University Library.
November 2006 - now Co-ordinating the Australian Libraries building in Cybrary City in Second Life until someone else takes it on.(Anyone??).
July 2006 - now Part of the team that writes and administers two Australian Library blogs - 1) LINT -librariesinteract.info: blog central for Australian libraries; and 2) VLINT - virtual.librariesinteract.info: blog central for Australian libraries in other worlds.
April 2006 - now I write my own blog, Librarians Matter.
2008
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 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).
2008
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, Bennett and Co., Barristers and Solicitors, Perth
- February 1987 - August 1990 Library attendant, University of Western Australia
