Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians

Southeast Asian librarians are encouraged to participate in the Digital Futures Australasia which will be held in Sydney, Australia 1st - 5th February 2010.  The early bird registration (before 31st December 2009) is AU$ 2,150 and spaces are very limited. Read on to find details of the conference in an email from the conference's organizers.

Dear Colleague

Digital Futures Academy: from digitization to delivery, Sydney, Australia, 1st - 5th February 2010

The early-bird deadline for Digital Futures Australasia is fast approaching. Since spaces are very limited, I though I should give CONSAL colleagues the opportunity to send delegates. The feed back on the previous programme was extremely positive and included the following comments:

* "Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone anticipating a digitization program"

* "The team was exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly and personable."

* "Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you."

* "Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience."

For more information go to: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/

Digital Futures is run by King's Digital Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London working in co-operation with Lyrasis, USA. Digital Futures Australasia is made possible with the co-operation of the Library of the University of Technology, Sydney. Led by international experts, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting 5 days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues involved in developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery.

Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:

o Planning and management

o Fund raising

o Understanding the audience

o Metadata - introduction and implementation

o Copyright and intellectual property

o Sustainability

o Financial issues

o Visual and image based resource creation and delivery

o Implementing digital resources

o Digital preservation

There will be visits to two Sydney based institutions to see behind the scenes and receive expert presentations. These will be to the State Library of New South Wales http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/ and the Powerhouse Museum http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/. In addition, every delegate will have the opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to their organisation.

The Digital Futures leaders are:

* Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College London http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

* Tom Clareson - Director for New Initiatives, Lyrasis http://www.lyrasis.org/

Regards

Alex

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Dr Alex Byrne FALIA

University Librarian

University of Technology, Sydney

P O Box 123 BROADWAY 2007 AUSTRALIA

Tel +61 2 9514 3332 Fax +61 2 9514 3331

alex.byrne@uts.edu.au