Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from December 1998

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from December 1998

Building a Virtual National Serials Collection Using the MEADS System.(Monash Electronic Access and Delivery of Serials)
December 1, 1998... ABSTRACT University libraries in Australia are now facing a crisis of unimaginable proportion, and their ability to supply the scholarly information required to support teaching and research has been seriously impaired by the inexorable annual...

Cataloguing Costed and Restructured at Curtin University of Technology.
December 1, 1998... ABSTRACT This paper outlines the results of a review of the cataloguing operations at the library at Curtin University of Technology and the three other publicly funded universities in Western Australia (known collectively as WAGUL). It...

A Researchers' Centre: One Library's Experience in Meeting the Needs of Research Level Students and Academic Staff.
December 1, 1998... ABSTRACT The first year of operation of the Researchers' Centre of the Queensland University of Technology Library is reviewed. The impetus for the Centre, issues relating to its establishment, its daily management and evaluation of its...

Managing CD-ROM Service in Malaysian Academic Libraries.
December 1, 1998... ABSTRACT Proper management and promotion of CD-ROM service is desirable to make it more popular and cost-effective for developing countries. This article explores the management of CD-ROM service in Malaysian academic libraries and marketing...

Report of the Council of Australian University Librarians Meeting 98/2, 12-13 October 1998 at the University of Sydney.
December 1, 1998... Members celebrated the first meeting of the Conference of Australian University Librarians held 70 years ago in Melbourne in August 1928. Five of New Zealand's seven university librarians joined CAUL for both the meeting and the celebratory...

University, College and Research Libraries Section (National Group).
December 1, 1998... Annual Report, 1998 President Janine Tan Secretary Carol Dungey Treasurer Julie Bums Members Jordana Arezina, Alan Bundy, Philip Keane, Amanda Nixon and Jenny Quilliam In January this year...

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting, University, College and Research Libraries Section of ALIA, 26 October 1998, University of South Australia Library.
December 1, 1998... Present Jordana Arezina, Alan Bundy, Julie Burns, Tony Cavanagh, Adela Clayton, Peter Clayton, Irene Doskatsch, Carol Dungey, Imogen Garner, Helen Jarvis, Jenni Jeremy, Julie Johnson, Philip Keane, Alison Kershaw, Marie Murphy, Shirley...

Pathways to Knowledge: The 1998 ALIA Biennial Conference.
December 1, 1998... `Pathways to Knowledge' was the theme chosen for what someone described as `the last ALIA Biennial Conference to be held this century': I suspect we'll have to endure a lot more discussion about whether the new century actually starts on 1...

WLN AND OCLC begin Negotiations to Merge.
December 1, 1998... WLN and OCLC have announced the signing of a letter of intent that could lead to the merger of WLN and OCLC. According to the letter of intent, subject to satisfactory negotiations and approvals by both boards of trustees the merger would...

IFLA in Amsterdam.
December 1, 1998... The 1998 IFLA General Conference was held in Amsterdam from 16 to 21 August. It attracted 2914 delegates and an additional 174 officially registered `accompanying persons' from a total of 112 countries: certainly large, but not too...

New Secondhand and OP Book Search Service.
December 1, 1998... BiblioQuest have announced a book search service which will include technical and academic titles, which can be especially difficult to find in Australia or New Zealand and too time-consuming to locate on the Internet using the usual search...

Information Seeking in Context.
December 1, 1998... The second Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference was held in Sheffield from 13 to 15 August, preceding IFLA in Amsterdam. Organised by the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, the conference was chaired...

Cancer Resources on the Internet.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Cancer Resources on the Internet edited by Sandra Wood and Eric Delozier. New York Haworth Press 1997 110p ISBN 0789003457 (pbk) Being a reference librarian in a busy medical library, I was looking forward to a publication like this....

Cataloging and Classification Standards and Rules.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Cataloging and Classification Standards and Rules edited by John J Riemer. New York Haworth Press 1996 235p ISBN 1560248068 (published simultaneously as Cataloging and Classification Quarterly vol 21 nos 3/4 1996) Standards are a hot topic...

Cataloguing and Classification: Trends, Transformations, Teaching and Training.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Cataloguing and Classification: Trends, Transformations, Teaching and Training edited by James R Shearer and Alan R Thomas. New York Haworth Press 1997 210p ISBN 0789003406 (also published as Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly vol 24 nos...

Coming Together: Papers from the 7th Australian History Forum, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 12 October 1996.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Coming Together: Papers from the 7th Australian History Forum, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 12 October 1996 edited by B J McMullin Melbourne Ancora 1997. (Monash Occasional Papers in Librarianship, Recordkeeping and Bibliography no...

The Corporate Memory: Information Management in the Electronic Age.(Review)
December 1, 1998... The Corporate Memory: Information Management in the Electronic Age by Kenneth A Megill. London Bowker-Saur 1997 112p ISBN 1857391586 This is a useful introduction to a field of study which ultimately affects the efficiency of all...

Decision-Making for Automation: Hebrew and Arabic Script Materials in the Automated Library.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Decision-Making for Automation: Hebrew and Arabic Script Materials in the Automated Library by Elizabeth Vernon. Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois 1996 91p (Occasional Papers no 205) ...

Essential Understandings: International Students, Learning, Libraries.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Essential Understandings: International Students, Learning, Libraries by Carolyn McSwincy. Adelaide Auslib Press 1995 201p This is a most timely publication which examines the academic library needs of international students at Swinburne...

Exporting Education to Asia.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Exporting Education to Asia by Ainsley Jolley. Melbourne Victoria University Press 1997 302p ISBN 1862724911 $34.95 This publication is the result of a research program commissioned by the Victorian Education Foundation and the Telematics...

Health Libraries: Challenges in the Commercial Environment.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Health Libraries: Challenges in the Commercial Environment edited by Kathy Saurine. Adelaide Auslib Press 1997 71p ISBN 187514544 3 (Library Challenges series no 10) $30.00 This timely publication is the result of research into the impact...

Public Access to New Zealand Government Information: The Role of the Depository Library Scheme--A Research Report.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Public Access to New Zealand Government Information: The Role of the Depository Library Scheme--A Research Report by Peter Hernon and Anna Chalmers. Wellington New Zealand Research Unit National Library of New Zealand 1996 69p ISBN 0477027598...

New Tricks? Staff Development for the Electronic Library.(Review)
December 1, 1998... New Tricks? Staff Development for the Electronic Library. Proceedings of the Conference held at Bournemouth University 27-29 August 1996 edited by Bobby Knowles. Bournemouth University Occasional Papers on Library & Information Services No 2...

Public Access to New Zealand Government Information: The Role of the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Public Access to New Zealand Government Information: The Role of the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education edited by Barry Dart and Gillian Boulton-Lewis. Melbourne Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) 1998 270p ISBN...