{"id":1844,"date":"2010-04-28T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2010-04-28T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:09:59","slug":"library-futures-at-state-library-of-western-australia-and-uts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/library-futures-at-state-library-of-western-australia-and-uts\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Futures – at State Library of Western Australia and UTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m excited.<\/p>\n

After dropping the kids off, I’m going to Necessity is the mother of (re)invention: the future for libraries<\/em> at the State Library of Western Australia today. I have heard two of the speakers before. Both were excellent and are why I’m going today.<\/p>\n

I saw Dr Varapasad of the National Library Board of Singapore at speak at VALA 2008. I also saw him speak to the excellent\u00a0 Bridging Worlds<\/a> conference later that year and had a chance to tour the National Library. I loved the promotional displays with large cardboard cutouts of library staff next to heart shaped pieces of paper where users told their stories about why they <3 their library.<\/p>\n

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Singapore National Library Uploaded to Flickr on October 29, 2008 by jblyberg<\/p><\/div>\n

I met Axel Bruns<\/a> from QUT when we both spoke in the same session at Cultural Connections: MySpace is an ArtSpace:ARLIS\/ANZ Biennial Conference <\/a>in Brisbane in 2008. In fact his talk today, Oureach and Co-curation: engaging with library users<\/a> is an update of that keynote and the slides have been posted online already.\u00a0 If you have seen me speak, there is usually a slide in there with a guy with a speech bubble coming out of his mouth talking about the concept of “produsage” – the idea that in order to use and engage with much new media you also need to be a producer in the system. That’s Axel Bruns.<\/p>\n

Outreach and Co-Curation: Engaging with Library Users<\/a><\/strong><\/object><\/p>\n
View more presentations<\/a> from Axel Bruns<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The other speaker is Frank McGuire the founder of Global Learning Village<\/a> and a member of the Hume Global Learning Village<\/a> Advisory Board at Hume City.<\/p>\n

If I can get wifi access I will tweet is via @libsmatter<\/a> and pull the tweets into the CoverItLive window below.<\/p>\n