@VALAlib

VALA - Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. Information Technology for galleries, archives, museums and of course libraries.

 Melbourne, Australia
vala.org.au/
Joined May 2009
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Caffeine fix while I wait for the plane #VALAtechcamp I’m on my way @VALAlib
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🥁 roll up roll up for a session on AI ethics, Tuesday, March 14th, 2-3pm AEDT, 4-5pm NZDT AI Ethics in Creative Practice: Exploring Trust, Authorship, and Governance eventbrite.com.au/e/ai-ethic… #AI4LAM #ArtificialIntelligence #Creativity #Trust
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Circles of niceness: people who can support you and be receptive sounding boards, but also pull you into line when your thinking is off kilter - @kimtairi. Analogous to "critical friends"? #VALA2022 leadership cauldron panel w/@HughRundle @nicolekearney @C_OSulliv
Kim Tairi, Hugh Rundle, and Nicole Kearney on the stage at VALA 2022 for a leadership panel facilitated by Carmel O'Sullivan, with a big VALA logo behind them

ALT Kim Tairi, Hugh Rundle, and Nicole Kearney on the stage at VALA 2022 for a leadership panel facilitated by Carmel O'Sullivan, with a big VALA logo behind them

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Lapping up the final keynote presentation #VALA2022 by @kimtairi entertaining, challenging & thought provoking. Always enjoy listening to her
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#s21 🤯 digital dexterity champions are exercising & promoting & living digital skills for librarians & non-technical natives via #oer & #github #gitbook #carpentries #AARNET & CAUL #digidex #digitalskills #community #VALA2022 #MyDigiDex
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Alexis Tindall (@lexistindall) joining us virtually at #VALA2022 for a discussion after her streamed talk re #DigitalPreservation at @UniofAdelaide. Sending you a big wave from Melbourne! 👋🏼👏🏼 #s22
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Moving away from the "sage on the stage" model of education for digital literacy learning in libraries. #s20 #VALA2022 Teishan Ahearne from Moreland Libraries sharing their journey
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once again...put the user first when approaching social media....respond to their needs. Don't just join a platform and them work it out #VALA2022
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Always cool to turn up to a talk and it’s being done by someone you already follow on twitter. Watching @ned_potter present on A Library Social Media Manifesto #VALA2022
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Hope everyone attending the last day of #VALA2022 enjoys it as much as I have over the last two days. I got to catch up with people I havent seen in YEARS! Well done organisers for a great few days
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#VALA2022 data, decisions & dynamics. Pitfalls of AI & machine learning. Keynote 4
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Slide of the day from @KathyReid - talking about AI, agents, data, dynamics, decisions and libraries as cybernetic systems at #VALA2022
A slide showing the meme corgi butt or loaf of bread, as an example of a classifier AI/agent

ALT A slide showing the meme corgi butt or loaf of bread, as an example of a classifier AI/agent

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tfw you're expecting another Zoom keynote on the big screen...then real life @flexlibris (from @LibraryFreedom) steps onto the stage and starts talking about jetlag. Pleasantly shocked, @VALAlib - this is awesome. #VALA2022 #LibraryFreedomProject #privacy #censorship
Alison Macrina speaking at VALA conference with big screen slides behind her

ALT Alison Macrina speaking at VALA conference with big screen slides behind her

Slide about banned books and censorship in the US

ALT Slide about banned books and censorship in the US

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Unpacking #UX, identifying #personas , #needs & keeping the #user in focus @ Deakin University Library #s17 #VALA2022
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Chilling similarity between unruly toddlers & systems implementation launch, #SouthernCrossUniversity #s15 #VALA2022
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How do we make the world’s biodiversity literature available online? @nicolekearney has the answer! #s16 #VALA2022
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What do seahorses, platypus & striped possums have in common? Their 1st published descriptions all have retrospectively-assigned DOIs: aka #RetroPIDs. Want to know more? I'm speaking at #VALA2022 Wed 3:10pm #s16. There'll also be orchids, #ORCIDs & even a dinosaur. @biodivlibrary
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Go Cam!! Revolution in ANBD updating. #VALA2022
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Staff training model? 😆 #VALA2022
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The future is here, but it is full of bias & it doesn’t serve everybody. An institution presenting this image of Bunjil with its AI-generated caption might seriously offend. Says @KathyReid #VALA2022
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