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Picchi, N. (2011, September 22). A Snapshot of the Kindle eBook Collection of Four Public Libraries. Islandlibrarians blog. Retrieved from http://islandlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/a-snapshot-of-the-kindle-ebook-collection-of-four-public-libraries/

Blyberg, J., Greenhill, K., & Trainor, C. (2009, April 3). The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians. blyberg.net. Retrieved October 21, 2010, from http://www.blyberg.net/2009/04/03/the-darien-statements-on-the-library-and-librarians/

Blyberg, J. (2006, September 1). 11 reasons why Library 2.0 exists and matters. blyberg.net. Retrieved September 14, 2010, from http://www.blyberg.net/2006/01/09/11-reasons-why-library-20-exists-and-matters/

Lankes, D. (2014). 3. The Mission of libraries: expect more than books. In Expect More:demanding better libraries for today's complex world. Medium. Retrieved from https://medium.com/p/c9efcfa6bd24 (To jump to this chapter easily, use F to "find" the search string "expect more than books" and go to the second occurrence)

Battles, M. (2003). Burning Alexandria. In Library: an unquiet history (pp. 22-55). New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company. Retrieved fromhttp://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=dc60262459.pdf

Butters, A. (2008). RFID in Australian Academic Libraries: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 39(3), 198. Retrieved from http://search.informit.com.au.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/fullText;dn=349995453137060;res=IELAPA

Catoggio, A., & Robertson, S. (2007). Strategic Procurement of Public Library Collections. Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services, 20(1). Retrieved from http://search.informit.com.au.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/fullText;dn=347113028782173;res=IELHSS

Budd, J. (2008). Genealogy of the profession. In Self-examination: the present and future of librarianship. Westport Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited. Retrieved fromhttp://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=dc60261220.pdf This is a good overview, but rather thorough. You might want to skim the chapter and read in more detail sections that are of interest to you.

NATIONAL AND STATE LIBRARIES OF AUSTRALASIA'S LIBRARY HACK PROJECT Warren, M., & Hayward, R. (2012). Hacking the nation: Libraryhack and community-created aps. VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures. Presented at the VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures, Melbourne Australia: VALA: Libraries, technology and the future. Retrieved from http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-12-warren

Fister, B. (2010). Assessing the (Enduring) Value of Libraries. Inside Higher Ed: Library Babel Fish. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library_babel_fish/assessing_the_enduring_value_of_libraries

Danowski, P. (2007). Library 2.0 and User-Generated Content What can the users do for us? In World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council. Durban, South Africa: IFLA. Retrieved from http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/113-Danowski-en.pdf

Questioning the purpose and functions of a modern state library. Well worth reading to get an idea of one state librarian's vision of what Australian state libraries could be doing. Wright, J., & Cowell, J. (2014). ALICE: are we ready for a startup? Presented at the VALA 2014: Streaming with possibilities, Melbourne Australia: VALA: Libraries, technology and the future. Retrieved from VALA2014-Session-15-Wright-Paper

Greer, R.C., Grover, R.J. & Fowler, S.G. (2007). An introduction to the library and information professions. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.

M. Piggott (2012) "Themes in Australian Recordkeeping, 1788 - 2010", Chapter 2, Archives and societal provenance : Australian essays, Chandos Publishing. http://link.library.curtin.edu.au/p?pid=CUR_ALMA51110902610001951  Subjects: Archives -- Australia -- History ; Libraries and society -- Australia ; Archives -- Collection management -- Australia ; Archives -- Australia ; Libraries -- Australia ; Records -- Australia -- Management Description: "Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant because Australia's indigenous peoples represent the oldest living culture in the world, and because modern Australia is an ex-colonial society now heavily multicultural in outlook. Archives and societal provenance explores this distinctiveness using the theoretical concept of societal provenance as propounded by Canadian archival scholars led by Dr Tom Nesmith. The book's seventeen essays blend new writing and re-workings and combinations of earlier work and comprise the first text to present a societal provenance perspective to a national setting. The book is divided into four sections. The first part looks at the historical context of archives in Australia; the second part covers the institutions involved in the Australian archival story; the third part discusses the formation of archives; and the fourth part considers the debates surrounding archives in Australia. The book concludes with a consideration of the notion of an archival afterlife." --backcover. 

Besen, S., & Kirby, S. (2012). e-books and libraries: an economic perspective. Chicago IL: American Library Association. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/offices/sites/ala.org.offices/files/content/oitp/publications/booksstudies/ebooks_libraries_economic_perspective.pdf

National and State Libraries Australasia vision for the future Quihampton, W. (2011). Re-imagining Libraries: Delivering services in a digital world. Presented at the ALIA Information Online, Sydney, Australia. Retrieved from http://conferences.alia.org.au/online2011/papers/paper_2011_A14.pdf

Gutsche, B. (2009, June 22). Competency Index for the Library Field. Retrieved from http://icma.org/en/icma/knowledge_network/documents/kn/Document/301297/Competency_Index_for_the_Library_Field