[MCASIlaris] Please join us for the May 29 LARIS Research Seminar!

[Leisa Gibbons]

Hello,


The LARIS (Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Science) Research Seminar Series is a staff-driven event designed to communicate and discuss our research and work-in-progress. We welcome staff, students, alumni, and professionals who are interested in research to participate in the event.

  *   Day: Wednesday, May 29 2019
  *   Time: Commences 4pm AWST
  *   Location: Humanities Boardroom, 209.214.
  *   Online access to the seminar is available via Google Hangouts: https://bit.ly/2JDOskz

This month we welcome Leisa Gibbons from LARIS to talk about Research strategies (presentation and discussion). Please see their bio below.


>From the presenter:

I am presenting my research on Facebook Groups as emergent community memory-making spaces. The paper to read https://bit.ly/2Hq32Jy has been accepted to the Information Research journal<http://informationr.net/ir/>. However, I have some questions to drive the seminar:

  1.  While I addressed the reviewers concerns there were two key issues raised that I refuted. I would like to discuss these two comments from the reviewers and what your take on why they may have been said:
     *   While not essential for the paper, a narrative lit review may be better suited to your discussion.
     *   The current version of the paper would, however, benefit of some additional work to specify the research questions asked and to tease out more of the analysed material. Right now it is unclear what is the specific contribution that it makes.

  1.  Also, I am looking for advice on research goals and long term strategic planning. I see my research as about the connections between personal and community memory-making in social media. However, I am researching and publishing on conceptualisations and manifestations of community archives in Australia, including identifying and analysing what are community archives, who funds them, where they are located, who creates them and cares about them, how they are formed and what informs their creation. Are these areas too theoretical? Too practical? Too broad? Too specific? Not LARIS enough? Should I choose one area over the other? Or is both OK?


For more information about the LARIS Research Seminar Series please read the information sheet (on Google docs): https://bit.ly/2HlcWfD


Presenter bio:

Dr. Leisa Gibbons is a Lecturer in the Library, Archives, Records and Information Science Program at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She has worked in Australia and the US in higher education specializing in archives and recordkeeping. Leisa’s teaching areas include archives, preservation, GLAM convergence, and management of information services. Leisa’s research explores the drive to document personal and community memory, especially in the use of social media. This area of inquiry often includes the examination of intersections between technological, social, and institutional systems. Prior to academia, Leisa worked as a records management and archives consultant with ten years of working experience in organizational recordkeeping environments.

Please RSVP to laris.seminars at gmail.com or reply to this email.

We hope to see you there!


Dr. Leisa Gibbons and Dr. Hollie White

LARIS Research Seminar Series Co-Chairs


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