Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from December 1997

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from December 1997

CAUL's interest in performance measurement. (Council of Australian University Librarians)(Performance Indicators for Academic Libraries)
December 1, 1997... The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) comprises the university librarians of all Australian university libraries. It endeavours to promote collaborative projects which have benefits for higher education in Australia. Among many...

Performance indicators for technical services in academic libraries.(Performance Indicators for Academic Libraries)
December 1, 1997... There has been a great deal of work done on establishing performance indicators in the areas of reference and user services, but much less research has been carried out in the technical services area. University management is now demanding a more...

Indispensable or indifferent? the reality of information service performance measurement at UNSW Library. (University of New South Wales)(Performance Indicators for Academic Libraries)
December 1, 1997... This paper does not outline ideal scenarios regarding production of indicators of performance of information service provision. Instead, it presents a point of view from the trenches or coalfaces of information service provision. I will outline...

Performance measures for NSW TAFE libraries: What can we learn from the literature? (New South Wales Technical and Further Education Libraries)(appendix includes suggested set of output preformance measures, user-oriented)(Performance Indicators for Academic Libraries)
December 1, 1997... The literature of user oriented performance measures was examined to develop a range of suggested performance measures for New South Wales Technical and Further Education (TAFE) libraries. Performance measures are taken to mean the way a library...

Copyright at the crossroads.(Performance Indicators for Academic Libraries)
December 1, 1997... Copyright has never been a more important issue than it is at present. Print has been the preferred format for the past few hundred years with limited other options available. Consequently we have a Copyright Act dated 1968 which deals mainly...

Providing census and other statistical data in an academic library.(Performance Indicators for Academic Libraries)
December 1, 1997... This paper presents part of an ongoing study into the ways in which census and other statistical data from external sources can be presented more effectively to infrequent or novice users in academic libraries. External statistical data (ESD) is...

Australasia and South Pacific Islands Bibliography.
December 1, 1997... By John Thawley. Scarecrow Area Bibliographies no 12 Lanham MD Scarecrow Press 1997 587p US$74.00 hard ISBN 0810832402 (available front James Bennett Library Service) Even the frozen wastes of Michigan, where he now lives, cannot dampen the...

American Library Books Catalogues, 1801-1875: A National Bibliography.
December 1, 1997... By Robert Singerman. (Occasional Papers nos 203/204, April 1996) Urbana-Champaign Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois 1996 x 242p ISBN 0 87845 098 X $19.50 Robert Singerman has produced a gem: this...

Business Blindspots 2nd Edition: Replacing Myths, Beliefs and Assumptions with Market Realities.
December 1, 1997... By Benjamin Gilad. Calne Wiltshire Infonortics 1996 262p ISBN 1873699336 55 [pounds sterling]/$US85 inc airmail postage If you can only afford one book on the subject of Competitive Intelligence (CI), this is the one to buy. The author, a...

East-West Links: Directory of Information Providers in the Former Soviet Union and Central-Eastern Europe.
December 1, 1997... Compiled and edited by Ron Hogg and Kathleen Ladizesky. Boston Spa British Library Document Supply Centre 1996 xii 240p ISSN 13630113 ISBN 0712321438 As the countries of the former Soviet bloc become more and more closely integrated into the...

The Future of Resource Sharing.
December 1, 1997... edited by Shirley K Baker and Mary E Jackson. New York Haworth Press 1995 210p ISBN 1560247738 In a climate of economic rationalisation, massive increases in scholarly publication and rapid technological development, the `just-in-time' vs...

HIV/AIDS Community Information Services: Experiences in Serving Both At-Risk and HIV-Infected Populations.
December 1, 1997... Experiences In Serving Both At-Risk and HIV-Infected Populations by Jeffrey T Huber. New York Haworth 1996 144p ISBN 1560249404 US $39.95 This book is one of five that Jeffrey T Huber has written on the topic of AIDS and HIV. Incidentally, it...

Implementation of Organizational Innovation: Studies of Academic and Research Libraries.
December 1, 1997... Studies of Academic and Research Libraries by Peter Clayton. San Diego CA Academic Press 1997 208p (Library and Information Science) ISBN 012174860X Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, this book deals with the implementation of...

Information Retrieval: New Systems and Current Research. Proceedings of the 16th Research Colloquium of the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Drymen 1994.
December 1, 1997... Proceedings of the 16th Research Colloquium of the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Drymen 1994 edited by Ruben Leon. London Taylor Graham 1996 238p ISBN 0947568700 Thirteen papers from a Research Colloquium of...

Performance Indicators Database: Selecting the Best Performance Indicators for Your Library.
December 1, 1997... Perth Western Australia Curtin University of Technology Library and Information Service 1996 2 computer disks (1 for Apple computers and 1 for DOS/Windows computers) and accompanying 32 page manual ISBN 1863425790 $230 including p&p What a...

The Publishing Industry in Colonial Australia: A Name Index to John Alexander Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia, 1784-1900.
December 1, 1997... A Name Index to John Alexander Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia, 1784-1900 by Ian Morrison. Melbourne Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 1996 (BSANZ Occasional Publication no 6) 161p ISBN 0959827153 (paperback) $30.00...

Serials to the Tenth Power: Tradition, Technology, and Transformation: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group 10th Anniversary Conference, 1995.
December 1, 1997... Tradition, Technology, and Transformation: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group 10th Anniversary Conference 1995 edited by Mary Ann Sheble and Beth Holley. Binghamton NY Haworth Press 1996 408p ISBN 1560248408 (also published...