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Hail or storm, the research we have always wanted, will be

Hail or storm, the research we have always wanted, will be

Or, What happened in the LARK workshop Research you have always wanted, but never had By Suzana Sukovic Torrential rain and gusty winds, described as the worst weather in Sydney in five years, didn’t prevent 13 committed people from gathering for a LARK workshop yesterday. The facade of the UTS...

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Research you have always wanted but never had

Research you have always wanted but never had

Suzana Sukovic For this workshop, LARK will take you to a wonderful new creative space -- UTS Gehry building (the Dr. Cau Chak Wing Building). It will provide a unique setting for us to move away from our daily grind and think creatively about future realities. We will take a serious play approach...

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LARK meeting @ EBLIP8

LARK meeting @ EBLIP8

The Eighth International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference Suzana Sukovic LARK @ EBLIP8 The EBLIP8 draft program is ready now with workshops galore. Check it out and start planning a wonderful mid-winter/mid-summer break in Brisbane! Three days talking about evidence-based...

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Quality assurance improvements in Australian university libraries

Quality assurance improvements in Australian university libraries

By Janine Schmidt Karen Tang, Quality assurance improvements in Australian university libraries Performance Measurement and Metrics vol. 14(1) 2013 pp.36-44 The need to reduce costs and maintain or extend services has led to an increasing focus on continuous improvement strategies within...

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Learning to stand on your own two feet

Learning to stand on your own two feet

This article was published in Incite, Jan/Feb 2015 By Alycia Bailey In conversation with an older colleague, Alycia Bailey was informed she was no longer a new librarian, but a librarian toddler: still learning to walk on her own, but no longer likely to slump into a ‘death position’ if left...

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INKE Sydney gathering

INKE Sydney gathering

Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E-merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices An INKE-hosted Birds-of-a-Feather Gathering 8 December 2014, State Library of New South Wales By Suzana Sukovic A Birds-of-a-Father Gathering hosted by the Canadian...

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What’s the Point of Theory?

What’s the Point of Theory?

By Michael Olsson https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/3269557195/sizes/o/ It’s fair to say that this is a question I’ve heard more than once in my career, sometimes from a student gazing in dismay at a reading list which includes Castells, Dervin and the occasional dead Frenchmen – but also on...

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Staying in a transliterate flow

Staying in a transliterate flow

By Suzana Sukovic Findings of the digital storytelling project iTell have been recently reported in the Australian Academic and Research Libraries (ALIA) under the title 'iTell: transliteracy and digital storytelling'. Workshops have been offered for three years in a row, research findings have...

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Getting collaboration right

Getting collaboration right

By Jennifer Berryman This artice was first published in InCite (September 2014) Writing is the theme of this LIS Investigations column – at first glance, not a natural partner with the issue theme of collaboration, as writing is seen by many as a solitary endeavour.  But of course, writing...

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