VALA Events 2018: Open GLAM Innovation

This 1-hour event will be run as a Zoom Webinar.

Question: What does a truly contemporary library service look like?

The next VALA webinar “Open Innovation”, is a timely exploration of how GLAM institutions are collaborating to create new service offerings. It was sparked by recent announcements regarding the State Library of Victoria's StartSpace and Foundry658 initiatives, and fuelled by the interesting parallels we’ve observed with the State Library of Queensland’s The Edge.

Each of these projects is a response to the challenge of providing a contemporary library experience, with collaboration between GLAM institutions a key to success.

Our guest speakers, Anna Burkey from SLV and Andrei Maberley from SLQ, will share the ups and downs of the journey so far, what it means to work in an openly collaborative environment and what they might do differently if they had their time over.