Keynote Speakers

Elaina Norlin - Technology

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Elaina Norlin is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach for KIP Communications. She was formerly the Manager for New Initiatives and Outreach at OCLC Eastern. She was on the faculty at the University of Arizona Library, Tucson , as an Associate Librarian. She is also the co-author of the book Usability Testing for Library Websites which has been selected for a second edition and E-Learning and Business Plans: National and International Case Studies.




Irena Yashin-Shaw - Technique

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Dr. Irena Yashin-Shaw PhD, Managing Director of Speaking Edge and Innovation Edge has been affectionately named ‘the pocket dynamo” because of her engaging presentation style. An accomplished and award winning professional speaker, Irena empowers individuals and organisations to unlock their potential through excellence in communication and creativity. In her keynotes, courses and coaching, she shows how mastering some basic principles can transform an individual’s sense of personal power and professional success, a business’s bottom line profit or a company’s corporate image.

One of Irena’s greatest strengths is her ability to adapt to any context so that she can relate to people from all walks of life, professions and backgrounds. She is equally at home speaking to groups of senior executives or academics, school students, professional speakers or long term unemployed being able to put everyone at ease with her friendly and gracious persona.

Carol Cooper - Unique

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Carol Cooper is an educator, facilitator of change, author of “How to Sell to Women” and master facilitator for the “Creating Customers for Life program”. She believes the keys to happiness and success are all about personal responsibility, ownership and accountability.

Carol has been mixing personal development with leadership, sales and service skills training since 1990. She found people generally love to learn about themselves and how they can improve their life. She found many people responded positively when they discovered they're personally responsible for creating their future, this knowledge really opened them up to learning the required sales, service and leadership skills necessary for their roles.

Most library technicians do not see themselves as leaders, yet in their every day roles they are leading both internal and external customers by providing excellent service and meeting their customers expectations. Carol shows library technicians how they are leaders in their roles within the library. Her presentation will have them identify the qualities they admire in great leaders and also how they like to be treated by leaders. This exercise will help library technicians identify with their role as a leader and the qualities they need to embrace to fully realise their leadership success.

Invited Plenary Speakers

Michael Coghlan - Web 2.0 and the future
Michael Coghlan was teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in the classroom when he decided to become a volunteer online ESL teacher in 1997.  He is a founding member of the Webheads online community. He is an eLearning Facilitator for TAFE South Australia, and also works as an independent elearning consultant (NewLearning.com). He has designed and delivered online courses in ESL, eModeration, and New Learning Technologies, and written widely on issues to do with elearning. He has presented at several national and international conferences, both physically and as a remote presenter. (See http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/articlesetal.htm) His particular current interests are networked learning, the role of social software in learning, and the impact of the Internet on society. Much more about Michael can be found on a rambling web1.0 site at http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/

Greg Gebhart - Cybersafety in Public Libraries
Greg Gebhart is the senior education trainer for the ACMA Cybersafety Outreach program. Greg provides Cybersafety awareness programs to educators, parents, students, community groups and law enforcement across Australia. He is a regular presenter at conferences throughout Australia and Internationally and has presented Cybersafety sessions to over 50,000 delegates in the past three years.

Roxanne Missingham - Creating value in a digital world: libraries, library technicians and the revolution
Roxanne Missingham is Parliamentary Librarian, Australian Parliamentary Library. She is responsible for the delivery of research and information services to the Parliament. Formerly Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division, National Library of Australia where she was responsible for collaborative services including Libraries Australia. She has a long career in libraries and IT focused on the development of digital delivery and digital services (and tries not to be too boring about it).

Ian McDonald - Copyright Issues
Ian McDonald is a Senior Legal Officer with the Australian Copyright Council. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney, with Bachelors degrees in both Arts and Laws, and a Masters degree in English literature. Prior to studying law, Ian freelanced in a variety of music, theatre, tutoring and teaching jobs. Ian has been with the Copyright Council since January 1994, advising clients on copyright and moral rights issues, writing and publishing extensively on the topics, and presenting talks and lectures on different aspects of these areas of intellectual property. Ian has written many of the Copyright Council's books on copyright both practical guides and discussion papers, and many articles on copyright issues.

Helen Roberts - Copyright Issues
Helen Roberts is the Copyright Advisor with the Australian Library and Information Association.   She has an Honours degree in English from the University of Sydney, an Honours degree in Law and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (with merit) from the Australian National University and a Diploma in Librarianship from the University of New South Wales, Helen has extensive experience in providing copyright advice. She was responsible for copyright information in the Australian National University Library, and has acted in the position of Assistant Copyright Officer at Australian National University.  Helen was the Law Librarian at the Australian National University and has also worked in Fisher Library at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University Library.  She has been an active ALIA member at the group level in the ACT and has served on several ALIA advisory committees, including terms as a member and then chair of the ALIA Copyright and Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. Helen has also represented ALIA as a member of the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee and the Australian Digital Alliance. She writes on copyright issues for inCite and has given papers at conferences. 

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Deadlines

Abstract Submission Deadline : 30 January 2009

Author Notification : 20 March 2009

Refereed Paper Submission : 17 April 2009

Final Submission of Refereed and Non-Refereed Papers : 14 August 2009

Registration Opens : End of April 2009

Earlybird Registration Deadline : 6 July 2009

Accommodation Booking Deadline : 14 August 2009