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&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...

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...

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*,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...