Library Consultancy Projects
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Most reports prepared by Libraries Alive! are 'commercial-in-confidence'. Those which are in the public domain are listed on our Project Reports page. Our Customers include government agencies (Commonwealth, State and Local) and commercial organisations.
Examples of some of our Projects:
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Libraries and information services
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Reviews of library services - State and Commonwealth agency libraries, corporate libraries and public libraries.
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Performance
assessment and benchmarking of library services - special, academic and public libraries.
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Quantification of the value of Commonwealth agency information services.
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Library customer and stakeholder consultation for services review and
strategic planning purposes (special libraries).
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Comprehensive survey of information requirements
of researchers and managers in a scientific and regulatory organisation.
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Review
of strategic directions and priorities of a special library service
following the amalgamation of several libraries.
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Public consultation and development of services
specification for new urban public libraries.
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Review
of funding and services models for regional public libraries.
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Preparation of
library services technology plans,
and strategic plans - special and public libraries.
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Project
direction and management for the implementation of a Territory-wide
virtual library. |
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Several of these projects had a significant skills development and transfer component and the consultants worked closely with teams from the library
service during planning and implementation.
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Information management
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Development of a content policy for an agriculture and
natural resources database.
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Asset value review and marketing plan for a
national water resources database.
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Inventory of research for a Commonwealth agency.
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Compilation
of a whole-of-government high level subject thesaurus for use in metadata
and resource discovery. Working with a reference group from several
Commonwealth agencies, this Project resulted in TAGS - Thesaurus of
Australian Government Subjects.
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Management
of a project to implement an enterprise-wide glossary in a
Commonwealth agency, including user specifications, development of business rules and procedures for its population, maintenance and promulgation.
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Compilation and review
of specialised subject thesauri.
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Development
of subject browse lists, and subject lists for use by metadata authors
for Internet/Intranet sites.
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Conduct and management of numerous indexing projects.
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Library and information technology
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Advice on information technology acquisition,
including definition of functional requirements, development of tender
documentation and contract negotiation, acceptance testing and
implementation - for State and Commonwealth special libraries, corporate libraries and public libraries).
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Management
of Territory-wide library system selection and implementation, for a
consortium involving State, special, public, community and school
libraries. This project included a skills transfer component,
and significant training effort.
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Replacement
of a library system shared by public libraries, government libraries
and an institute of technology library.
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Software
development review for a State Library.
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Assessment of software information retrieval capabilities for a national
research organisation.
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Strategic
reviews of library information technology for a national peak body,
and for several academic libraries.
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Training and facilitation
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Readers' adviser and reader development training and train-the-trainer courses: Rewarding Reading.
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Development
and delivery of training courses for users of electronic information resources.
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Facilitation
of seminars and planning workshops for libraries of all types.
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Reference refresher training – focusing on the reference interview and customer service principles.
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Library performance measurement and evaluation workshops.
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Our customers include:
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ACT
Library and Information Service
ACT
Chief Minister's Dept
ACT Territory and Municipal Services
(formerly
Dept of Urban Services)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Australian
Institute of Criminology
Australian
Library and Information Association
Australian
National University
Australian
Parliamentary Library
Biotext Pty Ltd
Canberra
Institute of Technology
CAVAL
Collaborative Solutions
Commonwealth
Treasury
Council
of Australian State Libraries
Council
of Australian University Librarians
Country
Public Libraries Association of NSW
Country
Public Libraries Group of Victoria
CSIRO
Curriculum
Corporation
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Dept
of Defence
Dept of Employment and Workplace Relations
Dept of Family and Community Services
Dept of Health and Ageing
Dept of Industry, Science and Resources
Dept of Veterans Affairs
Environment
Australia
Food
Science Australia
Forestry
Tasmania
Fred
Hollows Foundation
Geoscience Australia
Graphic Ark
Health
Insurance Commission
Infoscan
Pty Ltd
IP
Australia
Kellogg, Brown and Root
Land
and Water Australia
The Learning Federation
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Local
government authorities, including:
Armadale, WA
Baulkham Hills, NSW
Blacktown, NSW
Caboolture, Qld
Caloundra, Qld
Inner
Metropolitan Region of Councils (Sydney)
Kogarah, NSW
Liverpool, NSW
Livingstone, Qld
Maroochy, Qld
Peppermint Grove, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, WA
Rockhampton, Qld
Salisbury, SA
Wollondilly, NSW
Wollongong, NSW
medScript Communications
National
Library of Australia
National
Office for the Information Economy
Northern
Territory Library and Information Service
NSW
Dept of Agriculture (now Dept of Primary Industries)
PLAIN
South Australia
Public
Libraries Australia
Public
Libraries Consultative Committee, NSW
Queensland
Dept of Emergency Services
Queensland
Dept of Primary Industries
Riverina Regional Library
Screensound
Australia
Snowbird
Library Leadership Institute, USA
Spectrum Graphics
State
Library of NSW
State
Library of Queensland
State
Library of South Australia
State
Library of Victoria
State
Library of Western Australia
Sustainable
Energy Authority, Victoria
Sydney Adventist Hospital
Thiri
Pty Ltd
University
of New South Wales
University
of South Australia
Upper
Hunter Regional Library
Veronica
Lunn Consulting Pty Ltd
WA Dept of Health
Women's
Information and Referral Centre, ACT
WordsWorth Writing Pty Ltd
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