The Australian library community recently had the opportunity to gather for the VALA Conference and Exhibition (9-11 Feb) in Melbourne. Pam Millist from Maxus attended one day of the conference and exhibition.
Together with reviewing the available papers, webinars and the very active twitter stream (#vala16), there seemed to be a number of strong themes that emerged of particular interest to special librarians.
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More Magic – Sneak a peek at GeniePlus, the newest release in the Inmagic Genie family
If you missed Inmagic’s January webinar you can still see a special preview of the newest release in the Inmagic Genie family: GeniePlus, with capabilities including:
- Comprehensive serials control with e-resource management
- Integrated acquisitions with cost tracking and budgetary control
- True authority control with full thesauri capabilities
- Flexible and powerful UI for expansive system configuration
- On the fly reporting to Excel and PDF – system wide
- A Unicode foundation for multilingual access
- And new optional capabilities for multi-branch support
50 thought-provoking quotes about libraries and librarians
Libraries are essential in a process of giving access to knowledge. In digital times they are needed more than ever before. Most importantly, however, libraries are the places where you can expect smart and clear answers to even most difficult questions. As Neil Gaiman says: “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”
Check out this thought-provoking selection of quotes devoted to libraries and librarians.
IIS report and E2.0 KM
The inaugural Intelligent Information Symposium (IIS) was successfully held in Sydney on May 3-4. New ideas and future thinking featured in presentations by speakers and at the workshops. The event was also very well catered – check out the food in the photos.