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Mary Anne Kennan
@maryanne-kennan.bsky.social
Retired but strangely busy academic.
Great opportunity to learn, contribute and build your research skills and networks.
Registrations for the LARK Circle 2025 have been extended until Tuesday, 22 April. If you are an LIS professional looking to enhance your research skills or work on a practice-based research project, now is the time to register.
A great opportunity to start or develop your research-based #LIS practice with like minded colleagues. Two experienced researchers, @bhuvauts.bsky.social and @suzanasukovic.bsky.social, are looking forward to facilitating your learning.
Further details lark.alia.org.au/lark-circle-...
#LARKCircles
April 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite:

‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’
April 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
The LARK team are excited to host our LARK webinar Connections & Collaborations in Public Libraries:

First speaker @kayoddone.bsky.social is talking about a great project on enhancing connections with school & public libraries and 'shared sense of purpose.'

#LARKWebinar #LIS #Libraries #Research
April 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
Fade to Books: Libraries as trusted organisations

How libraries partner with local barbers and other service providers to help young people, homeless and communities connect with books and reading

#LARKWebinar speaker @janegarner.bsky.social

#Libraries #Partnerships #Research
April 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
One of the facilitators @bhuvauts.bsky.social is an editor @jaliajournal.bsky.social and can help you conceptualise your future contributions.
A great opportunity to start or develop your research-based #LIS practice with like minded colleagues. Two experienced researchers, @bhuvauts.bsky.social and @suzanasukovic.bsky.social, are looking forward to facilitating your learning.
Further details lark.alia.org.au/lark-circle-...
#LARKCircles
April 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
Research Application in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) conference 2025 is in Sydney 3-5 November 2025. Abstract submissions due 18 May. Opportunity for full papers to be considered for publication in a special issue of JALIA in 2026.
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Call for Contributions
Library and Information Research: Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Future RAILS, the premier Australasian research conference on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies, is the …
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April 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
ALIA LARK Webinar next Wed. 9 April from 1-2pm AEST. Speakers: Kay Oddone "Essential Connections: Enhancing Collaboration Between School and Public Libraries" & Jane Garner "Supporting Vulnerable Library Users: Partnerships & Service Provision".
Register here: www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?...
LARK is delighted to invite you to the webinar presented by 2 excellent speakers from @charlessturtuni.bsky.social, @kayoddone.bsky.social and @janegarner.bsky.social. Further details and registration link are available from the LARK Events page
lark.alia.org.au/event/webina...
Webinar Connections & Collaborations in Public Libraries: LIS Research | ALIA LARK
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April 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
Connections & Collaborations in Public Libraries:
First 2025 #LARK webinar with guest speakers @kayoddone.bsky.social & @janegarner.bsky.social sharing insights from two research projects.
Details from this blog post @maryanne-kennan.bsky.social
lark.alia.org.au/event/webina...
#ResearchInPractice
March 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
A new article from my PhD research in JLSC: 'Open knowledge through soft power, diplomacy, and the library: A theoretical analysis and critique.' doi.org/10.31274/jls...

#ScholComms #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #OpenKnowledgeDiplomacy
Open knowledge through soft power, diplomacy, and the library: A theoretical analysis and critique
This paper explores global justifications for open knowledge in higher education and research. Drawing on library and information, scholarly communications, and international relations scholarship, it...
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March 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
LARK is delighted to invite you to the webinar presented by 2 excellent speakers from @charlessturtuni.bsky.social, @kayoddone.bsky.social and @janegarner.bsky.social. Further details and registration link are available from the LARK Events page
lark.alia.org.au/event/webina...
Webinar Connections & Collaborations in Public Libraries: LIS Research | ALIA LARK
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March 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
A great opportunity to start or develop your research-based #LIS practice with like minded colleagues. Two experienced researchers, @bhuvauts.bsky.social and @suzanasukovic.bsky.social, are looking forward to facilitating your learning.
Further details lark.alia.org.au/lark-circle-...
#LARKCircles
February 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reposted by Mary Anne Kennan
It's my pleasure to announce @maryanne-kennan.bsky.social as LARK's Co-convenor. After 12 years as LARK's Convenor, it's wonderful to share leadership and responsibility for this thriving group
February 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM