Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from April 2001

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from April 2001

Slouching Towards Calvary: Where to the National Collection?
April 1, 2001... Although the sub-title of this paper, `whereto the national collection' addresses the future, it is appropriate to begin by looking backwards and recalling that the notion of the national collection in the recent past has been virtually...

`Grow with Praise of Future Ages': Creating The Baillieu Library Building 1959.
April 1, 2001... The Baillieu Library was first opened to the Melbourne University community at the beginning of February 1959. Library users were lucky compared with students and staff of the Architecture school; on March 17 The Sun carried an article decrying...

Analysing the Quality Gap: Reflections on Results from an Australasian Universitas 21 Libraries Standard Survey of Service Quality.
April 1, 2001... `Universitas 21 is a network of 18 universities in 10 countries. It enrols about 500,000 students annually, employs some 44,000 academics and researchers, and has a combined operating budget of almost $US9 billion'.(2) The Libraries Group...

Understandings of Information Literacy: The Perceptions of First Year Undergraduate Students at the University of Ballarat.
April 1, 2001... Information literacy has become a major focus of academic libraries in recent times. Much of the discussion around this issue has arisen in recognition that we have entered an age where `The quality and quantity of information needed to...

Academic Library Website Design Principles: Development of a Checklist.
April 1, 2001... Identifying and implementing best practice design principles in World Wide Web pages has been and continues to be a difficult task for web developers. As Still(1) says, `While anyone can create a web page just as anyone can write a poem or...

Computer and Internet Use among a Group of Sydney Seniors: A Pilot Study.(Statistical Data Included)(Technical)
April 1, 2001... Data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicate that people over the age of 55 are embracing computer technology and the Internet at a far greater pace than the Australian adult population in general (a 129% increase in the year...

News from CAUL.(Council of Australian University Librarians)
April 1, 2001... The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) recently announced two major new resource-sharing programs aimed at improving access to scholarly information for members of Australian universities. Building on a long history of...

Remarkable Occurrences: The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years 1901-2001.(Review)
April 1, 2001... National Libraries -- National myths: a review of Peter Cochrane (ed.) Remarkable Occurrences: The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years 1901-2001. Canberra National Library of Australia 2001 ISBN 0642107300 300p $59.95 The...

International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2000/2001: Collection Management.(Review)
April 1, 2001... International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2000/2001: Collection Management Edited by G E Gorman London Library Association Publishing 2000 xvi + 448p ISBN 1856043665 60.00 [pounds sterling] Does the world really need...

Publications Received.
April 1, 2001... ARL Supplementary Statistics: 1998-99 compiled and edited by Martha Kyrillidou. Washington Association of Research Libraries 2000.46p Assessing Digital Library Services edited By Thomas A Peters. Library Trends Vol 49 no2 Fall 2000 ISSN...

Derek Fielding A Biographical Sketch.(Review)
April 1, 2001... On his retirement from the University of Queensland in 1994, where he was the James Forsyth Librarian (1965-1992) and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Academic Services (1992-1994), the University bestowed on Derek Fielding the distinction of University...

Derek Fielding and the University of Queensland.
April 1, 2001... Derek (Fred Derek Osmond) Fielding was appointed James Forsyth University Librarian at the University of Queensland on 28 June 1965. Derek, having begun his working life in the Sheffield City Libraries, emigrated to New Zealand where he became...

Higher Education: A Short History of Change.
April 1, 2001... `Change' is one of the great buzzwords of the very late 20th century, and nowhere more so than in higher education. We talk about `change' in this context as though it were something new, but it will be the message of this paper that change is...

Libraries and Copyright.
April 1, 2001... The purpose of copyright law is to encourage authors to formulate new ideas and publish information. It does this by limiting the use that may be made of copyright works without the permission of the owner of the copyright. However, the law has...

We Would Live in Peace and Tranquility and No One Would Know Anything.(Derek Fielding )
April 1, 2001... Living in Queensland through the years of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen's conservative premiership, Derek Fielding was very active as president of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties which he played a significant part in revitalising. During...

Derek Fielding: A Select Bibliography 1956-96.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2001... Derek Fielding's contribution was through his publications and conference presentations as well as his actions. The conscious omissions from this select bibliography are book reviews that do not amount to review articles, and smaller or routine...