You'll remember that the Arlis/ANZ website will be undergoing redevelopment during 2007/08.
Well, a few weeks ago Communication Design students in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT started looking at the Arlis/ANZ website, as part of a real-world learning experience in one of their web design units.
The students work in teams, combining their individual skills to come up with web design solutions that match their client's brief - Arlis/ANZ's brief.
The briefing document the students are working from was drawn up by Arlis/ANZ Web Manager Kelly McKeon and the Arlis/ANZ Web Team (Luisa Rossitto and myself), and covers eveything from practical enhancements through to a wish list of web 2.0 functionality.
At the end of the semester, the teams will present their unique solutions for the redevelopment of the Arlis/ANZ website. These solutions might be whole-of-site designs and recommendations, or may focus on particular aspects, such as structure, graphics or content management solutuons.
The designs and recommendations we like, we implement!
So stay tuned in the coming months for an exciting 'show and tell' when the students present their designs!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Fantastic news about the next Conference!
Hi all - it's been a while since I last blogged news from the Arlis/ANZ Executive - but I have some great news hot of the press!
We have a conference date for 2008!
Mark you diaries for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October 2008 for some conference fun in the glorious sunshine of a Brisbane spring. That's a Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
We are still finalising where, but are looking to take advantage of some of the wonderful cultural and educational institutions along the Brisbane river - more info will be realsed when we have secured venues.
As for a name, we have a working title: Cultural Connections: MySpace is an ArtSpace
The Queensland members are very excited about all the ideas this theme encapsulates. We feel we can build an exciting, innovative and attractive conference programme around this theme which will reflect the dynamic and forward-thinking society that is Arlis/ANZ.
For instance, some of the sub-themes we discussed revolved around ideas such as:
We have a conference date for 2008!
Mark you diaries for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October 2008 for some conference fun in the glorious sunshine of a Brisbane spring. That's a Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
We are still finalising where, but are looking to take advantage of some of the wonderful cultural and educational institutions along the Brisbane river - more info will be realsed when we have secured venues.
As for a name, we have a working title: Cultural Connections: MySpace is an ArtSpace
The Queensland members are very excited about all the ideas this theme encapsulates. We feel we can build an exciting, innovative and attractive conference programme around this theme which will reflect the dynamic and forward-thinking society that is Arlis/ANZ.
For instance, some of the sub-themes we discussed revolved around ideas such as:
- the role of arts libraries and information services in connecting people with cultures and cultural expression
- the varied forms cultural and artistic expression might be taking in this new, technology-rich millennium
- the collection, preservation and appropriate management of and access to cultural artifacts and documents from indigenous creative and cultural traditions
- The role of arts libraries and information services in enabling appropiate connections between indigenous and non-indigenous cultural and creative traditions
- the connections and interrelationships between the creative disciplines - connections which blur the traditional divisions between visual, kinetic, performing and computational creative arts sectors - and what this means for the information services which support them
- social networking and corresponding technologies as cultural phenomena
the use of new social technologies in cultural production, and what that means for arts libraries in terms of collecting, preserving and enabling access to digitally and collaboratively produced creative content - and the use of new social technologies within the arts libraries and information sector itself and what that means for our members and our future
These are just a few ideas that spring to mind, and of course, there's lots more work yet to be done before a draft conference programme will be ready. The Queensland Chapter will be working on the conference programme and conference website during the next few months, with a call for papers due out either late 2007 or early 2008 - so stay tuned.
Any suggestions or comments about the conference title, or ideas for the programme are most welcome and you can get in touch either with the Coordinator of the Conference Programme, Alice Steiner a.steiner@qut.edu.au or just leave a comment to this post.
cheers
Ellen
Monday, May 7, 2007
Hello from North America!
Hi Arlis/ANZ members
I was pleasantly surprised today to receive email notification that a member of the art library students and Arlis/NA new professionals group had left a comment on the blog!
Sara, of ArlisNAP: http://www.arlisnap.org/ left a quick comment about how useful blogging has been for their group communication and discussion. Check out her comment here: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5142010061227814297&postID=5377995915093611739
And if course, it immediately prompted me to check out the ArlisNAP site to see what they were doing - what they were talking about, how they were using technology to communicate, how they structured their website etc. I'm going to return the favour and join their blog, to be a part of their discussions too!
And of course, it all reminded me to get back on to the Arlis/NA site itself for another look at how they do things there.
I think we could learn a lot from the Arlis/NA and ArlisNAP websites and the groups themselves.
The Arlis/NA site is very well developed and a great example. I think we could borrow a lot of great ideas for when we begin the review of our own webiste. And the ArlisNAP group reminds me that we have a lot of librarianship students and new professionals in Australia who may be interested in learning more about arts librarianship and perhaps becoming involved in Arlis/ANZ itself.
Our conference next year would be a great opportunity to raise awareness and involve the next generation of librarians, so I'll take back the idea to the Queensland Chapter conference organising group to see if we can work something into the programme.
I'd welcome you comments and ideas - feel free to post comments to this blog, and I'll feed them into the conference planning activities of the Queensland Chapter. If you want to know more about the conference planning activities as they evolve, take a look at the conference planning pages of our wiki: http://arlisanzqld.wetpaint.com/
cheers
Ellen
I was pleasantly surprised today to receive email notification that a member of the art library students and Arlis/NA new professionals group had left a comment on the blog!
Sara, of ArlisNAP: http://www.arlisnap.org/ left a quick comment about how useful blogging has been for their group communication and discussion. Check out her comment here: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5142010061227814297&postID=5377995915093611739
And if course, it immediately prompted me to check out the ArlisNAP site to see what they were doing - what they were talking about, how they were using technology to communicate, how they structured their website etc. I'm going to return the favour and join their blog, to be a part of their discussions too!
And of course, it all reminded me to get back on to the Arlis/NA site itself for another look at how they do things there.
I think we could learn a lot from the Arlis/NA and ArlisNAP websites and the groups themselves.
The Arlis/NA site is very well developed and a great example. I think we could borrow a lot of great ideas for when we begin the review of our own webiste. And the ArlisNAP group reminds me that we have a lot of librarianship students and new professionals in Australia who may be interested in learning more about arts librarianship and perhaps becoming involved in Arlis/ANZ itself.
Our conference next year would be a great opportunity to raise awareness and involve the next generation of librarians, so I'll take back the idea to the Queensland Chapter conference organising group to see if we can work something into the programme.
I'd welcome you comments and ideas - feel free to post comments to this blog, and I'll feed them into the conference planning activities of the Queensland Chapter. If you want to know more about the conference planning activities as they evolve, take a look at the conference planning pages of our wiki: http://arlisanzqld.wetpaint.com/
cheers
Ellen
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Latest on technology developments
Hi Arlis/ANZ
This week on the blog: 10th April 2007
I thought you might like to know some recent, very recent (as in, like, today) experiments with, and applications of, technologies that are being adopted amongst the Arlis/ANZ membership.
The QLD and NSW wikis continue to evolve. NSW are posting their meeting minutes to their wiki, and the QLDers are posting their meeting agendas and preparing a conference organising space, on theirs.
Today, for my part, I created a Yahoo7 Group space for the QLD membership - a space where we can throw around ideas and discuss issues etc, without having to meet, and without the linear restrictions of email. It's linked from the QLD Chapter wiki - so feel free to take a look: http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/arlisqld/
I am currently a member of distributed a research student cohort which meets in this same virtual environment, I've been part of the virtual discussion for only a few weeks - and already the possibilities on offer have amazed and excited me! I can see such clear advantages to the operations of Arlis/ANZ.
So if all goes well, the Arlis/ANZ Executive might experiment with this same technology. It should enable us to conduct rich and timely virtual discussions, and enhance the Executive's ability to commmunicate in a fluid and dynamic manner.
Stay tuned for developments..... feel free to post a comment to the blog!
Ellen
This week on the blog: 10th April 2007
I thought you might like to know some recent, very recent (as in, like, today) experiments with, and applications of, technologies that are being adopted amongst the Arlis/ANZ membership.
The QLD and NSW wikis continue to evolve. NSW are posting their meeting minutes to their wiki, and the QLDers are posting their meeting agendas and preparing a conference organising space, on theirs.
Today, for my part, I created a Yahoo7 Group space for the QLD membership - a space where we can throw around ideas and discuss issues etc, without having to meet, and without the linear restrictions of email. It's linked from the QLD Chapter wiki - so feel free to take a look: http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/arlisqld/
I am currently a member of distributed a research student cohort which meets in this same virtual environment, I've been part of the virtual discussion for only a few weeks - and already the possibilities on offer have amazed and excited me! I can see such clear advantages to the operations of Arlis/ANZ.
So if all goes well, the Arlis/ANZ Executive might experiment with this same technology. It should enable us to conduct rich and timely virtual discussions, and enhance the Executive's ability to commmunicate in a fluid and dynamic manner.
Stay tuned for developments..... feel free to post a comment to the blog!
Ellen
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Welcome
Welcome to my first posting to the new "Arlis/ANZ President's blog"
I'm hoping that this will be a quick, simple way for me to communicate with the Arlis/ANZ community.
By posting to the blog and replying to posts, I invite you to join me in throwing around ideas; participating in decision making and generally getting involved in discussions with other Arlis members from around Australia and New Zealand, about the issues which matter to us.
It's intended that the blog will complement our existing communication mechanisms, such as the Discussion List and chapter email lists, and provide an interactive forum for people to post comments and feedback. It's an experimental thing - so we'll see how it goes!
All you need is a free Google Account to post comments on this blog - so go to Google, sign up, and post a comment - let me know what you think!
cheers
Ellen
I'm hoping that this will be a quick, simple way for me to communicate with the Arlis/ANZ community.
By posting to the blog and replying to posts, I invite you to join me in throwing around ideas; participating in decision making and generally getting involved in discussions with other Arlis members from around Australia and New Zealand, about the issues which matter to us.
It's intended that the blog will complement our existing communication mechanisms, such as the Discussion List and chapter email lists, and provide an interactive forum for people to post comments and feedback. It's an experimental thing - so we'll see how it goes!
All you need is a free Google Account to post comments on this blog - so go to Google, sign up, and post a comment - let me know what you think!
cheers
Ellen
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