Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn is Emerging Technologies Specialist at Murdoch University Library, Perth, and one of the facilitators for http://librariesinteract.info - a collaborative Australian Libraries blog. On her own blog - http://librariansmatter.com/blog/ - Kathryn describes some of her passions and professional interests, which include:

• how Library 2.0 will change library culture, and the best way to make this a smooth transition
• informal and highly effective learning gatherings - unconferences, barcamps, communities of practice.
• the relationship between library spaces and their web sites
• Second Life libraries
• collaborating with far flung library folk
• using new technologies to help the
technological “have nots”
• what the next generation of undergraduates will
expect from us
• how we can loosen up what we do enough to listen and
change as needed

Kathryn will be speaking to us about Second Life, and the coming-together of creativity and cyberspace. Her presentations are dynamic, visual and performative. She will challenge us to consider what it might mean for arts information professionals to enable access to information and to provide services to clients at points where the physical and virtual worlds are increasingly blurred.


Axel Bruns

Dr Axel Bruns is a Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. On his blog - http://snurb.info/information - he talks about his research and publishing output.

Axel’s research interests are in produsage (or collaborative user-led content development), blogging, citizen journalism, online publishing, virtual communities, creative industries, creative hypertext writing, and popular music studies.
He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008), Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and the editor of Uses of Blogs with Joanne Jacobs (2006), as well as many articles and conference papers.

Axel will be speaking to us from a theoretical perspective on creativity, content creation, and the place of the content user vis a vis the content creator. He will challenge us to re-think our roles as arts information professionals in relation to information access, information organisation, multimedia content and creative outputs.