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ALIA Library Applied Research Kollektive (LARK)

Special guest at the LARK workshop on 25 June

By Suzana Sukovic   LARK is delighted to announce a special guest at the LARK workshop How to get published? Dr Joycel Kirk will join Dr Bhuva Narayan and me in answering your questions and planning the best publishing route for you.  Dr Joyce Kirk has been involved in most aspects of...

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Workshop ‘How to get published?’

Workshop ‘How to get published?’

&Tour of the UTS Library Retrieval System  When: Thursday, 25 June 2015 Where: University of Technology, Sydney For this outing, LARK has organised everything you need to be informed, intellectually stimulated and entertained. Sounds like a tourist brochure, but this is a pretty accurate...

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Leadership: nature or nurture?

Leadership: nature or nurture?

By Diana Hodge With the focus on newly appointed ALIA leaders, I thought it might be interesting to highlight some research into leadership; I was interested in what skills leaders require and the question of whether leaders are born or can be trained. I found a very interesting series of articles...

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On the Mothers’ and Other Mothers’ Day

On the Mothers’ and Other Mothers’ Day

http://pixabay.com/en/paper-flowers-arts-and-crafts-paper-655387/ By Suzana Sukovic   There is a direct line between this blog and a sunny Saturday morning many years ago in which I lie in a bed covered by crispy linen, in my favourite pyjamas, a little bell around my neck to mark Vrbica*,...

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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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