CAVAL/ANDS Workshop - Managing library
teams for a research and data-intensive future
Australian Catholic University
Building No 420, Level 4, Room 19
115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy
Melbourne, Victoria 3065
Australia
Friday, 28 July 2017 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (AEST)
09:00-09:15 Registration at ACU, Building 420, Level 4, Room 19
09:15-09:30 Welcome: Karen Visser (ANDS)/Michael Robinson (CAVAL)
CAVAL, ANDS, housekeeping, introductions and broad outcome for the workshop
09:30-09:55 Setting the scene: David Groenewegen (Library Director, Research, Monash University)-
Personal account - a different career path, connecting the eResearch infrastructure dots
University Utopia Library - what does this Library’s workforce look like?
09:55-10:15 Setting the scene: Andrew Treloar (ANDS)
National perspective on eResearch Infrastructure - the skills priority and the importance of
people as infrastructure
10:15-10:45 See your future: Rowland Mosbergen (Researcher/Developer - Stem cell research - University
of Melbourne)
Libraries/librarians haven't been a part of my research workflow, but perhaps they should be?
10:45-11:00 See your future: Steve Androulakis (RDS, Nectar and ANDS )
Knowing what we each don’t know: bringing Library and Researcher/Developer communities
together to bridge the technical divide
11:00-11:15 Morning Tea
11:15-11:35 Addressing the skills and management gaps: Lightning Talks - Kathryn Unsworth (ANDS)
What’s currently happening in the data-related skills space?
● La Trobe Uni: ERDMS project - connecting with IT ​Andrew Williams
● RMIT: Building relationships and services - what our new Data Librarians are up to
Adam Rivett and Sam Gibbard
● Monash University: Skilling up staff for data inclusion ​David Groenewegen
11:35-12:05 Addressing skills and management gaps to reach Library Data Utopia: Kathryn Unsworth
SWOT analysis activity
● Group 1.1, 1.2 - Skills Gap: All Library staff are skilled and are continually upskilled
(along a skills continuum) for a domain driven, data-centric world
● Group 2.1, 2.2 - Skills Gap: Librarians routinely provide keystone expertise and
Contact: Kathryn Unsworth|kathryn.unsworth@ands.org.au | 03 99020568

connections throughout the research/data lifecycle
● Group 3.1, 3.2 - Management Gap: Libraries have workforce models which include
Librarians as strategic partners working alongside researchers, potentially outside the
Library
● Group 4.1, 4.2 - Management Gap: Library management strategies enable, sustain and
embed data inclusion in library services from undergrad to Deans
12:05-12:25 Getting to Utopia: Addressing skills and management gaps for the next 24 months - Kathryn
Unsworth
What​ ​actually​ needs to happen before 2020 to create your Utopia library?
12:25-12:40 Getting to Utopia: What are Our Library next steps? Discussion - Karen Visser
What first steps will we take to reduce or eliminate the skills gap and create data-intensive
teams at ​our​ Library over the next 2 years
12:40-12:50 Working in concert: Karen Visser
Sharing resources, expertise, and infrastructure
Google doc - ​http://bit.ly/2eOG8kq
12:50-1:00 What’s happening at ANDS-Nectar-RDS? Wrap up and close - Karen Visser
Contact: Kathryn Unsworth|kathryn.unsworth@ands.org.au | 03 99020568