Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from December 2000

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from December 2000

Perfect One Day -- Digital The Next: Challenges in Preserving Digital Information.
December 1, 2000... Our information-loaded, some would say overloaded, world is living in troubled times. This is not surprising when just over half the world's English-speaking population, and just under half of Australia, is reputed to be online.(1) Then there...

Preserving the Past, Conceptualising the Future: Research Libraries and Digital Preservation.
December 1, 2000... One of the more unusual publications held in the Special Collections of the University of Western Australia Library is a 1990 edition of the works of the philosopher David Hume, contained on eight 5 1/4" diskettes. It has been joined more...

Because It Belongs to All of Us: National Arrangements for Digital Preservation in Australian Libraries.
December 1, 2000... Preservation of digital information is a subject exercising the corporate intelligence of many collecting institutions around the world and in this country. Since at least the early 1990s there has been a growing recognition that the task...

ePreservation in the Archive: Theories, Practices.
December 1, 2000... Archival institutions do not, as a general rule, collect and manage individual records. This makes them different from libraries which tend to deal more with objects (be they books or multi-media works) which are distinct and bounded.(1) In the...

Documenting The Business of Government -- Archival Issues in the Digital Age.
December 1, 2000... As society shifted a millennium ago from the oral to the written record, the focus of archivists changed from remembering an action to caring for the written artifacts that gave evidence of the action. As society now moves from written records...

State Library of Victoria chooses Voyager.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The State Library of Victoria has announced it will install Voyager as its new integrated library management system, to provide improved customer access to our the library's catalogue and indexes. Voyager, produced by the North American company...

The Future of the Biennial Conference.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... A handful of years ago there was much talk about the future of ALIA's Biennial Conferences, given the great strength of Online and the Special, Health and Law Libraries conferences, not to mention VALA. Declining numbers for the biennial...

Any Time, Any Place: Virtual Reference Services.
December 1, 2000... This seminar was organised by the University, College and Research Library Section of the Australian Library and Information Association at the National Convention Centre in Canberra on 23 October 2000. It was a satellite activity in...

Information for Co-operation: Creating the Global Library of the Future.
December 1, 2000... Any conference report must, of necessity, be shaped by the interests and experiences of the writer. Eighteen Australians were among the 1,800 delegates from 93 countries who attended IFLA 2000 in Jerusalem. Each would have a different story to...

Virtual Reference Desk Conference October 2000, Seattle.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The second Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) conference attracted many more delegates than last year, and more than anticipated by the organisers. Last year around 250 attended, this year over 500 attended. It provided a very valuable opportunity...

Don Boadle wins Mander Jones Award for AARL Article.(archives)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
December 1, 2000... The 1999 Phyllis Mander Jones Awards ceremony was held at Parliament House, Melbourne, on Saturday 19 August 2000. Don Boadle, Director, Archives & Records at Charles Sturt University, was voted the winner in Category 5, `Best article about...

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: a Celebration of Historical Library Functions.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D W Krummel. Champaign, Illinois: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. Occasional Papers No 209 ISSN 0276...

Computers for Librarians: An Introduction to Systems and Applications.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Computers for Librarians: An Introduction to Systems and Applications by Stuart Ferguson and Rodney Hebels. 2nd ed WaggaWagga Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University - Riverina 1998 270p ISBN 0 949060 44 5 A$45.00 plus $5.00...

Library Management.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Library Management Vol 19 Nos 5 and 6 1998 ISSN 0143-5124 Reviewing a publication with a release date of 1998 towards the end of 2000 can be a risky business as there is a danger that time and events may have overtaken the issues and topics...

Human Response to Library Technology.(papers appearing in Library Trends vol 47 no 4 Spring 1999)(Review)
December 1, 2000... Human Response to Library Technology edited by Janice J Kirkland and Michael Gorman. Library Trends vol 47 no 4 Spring 1999 ISSN 00242594 Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

Review of Reference Services 1998: report of the Reference Review Committee.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... National Library of Australia. Reference Review Committee. Review of Reference Services 1998: report of the Reference Review Committee. Canberra National Library of Australia 1999 This report outlines the review of reference services of the...

Slavic and East European Information Resources.(new periodical)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Slavic & East European Information Resources. Vol 1 No 1 2000 Haworth ISSN 1522-8866 $48 (subscription outside US) The appearance of this journal is something of a curiosity in Slavic studies, as recent years have been characterised by the...

Australian Library and Information Association University College and Research Libraries' Section.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Annual Report 2000 President: Helen Roberts Secretary: Nancy Clarke Treasurer: Wendy Smith Committee Members: Michael Evans, Margaret Henty, Jane Hardy, Pam Dunlop, Annette McGuiness and Sevilay Esat The ACT Group has also been...

Publications Received.(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
December 1, 2000... Advances in Library Administration and Organization edited by Delmus E Williams and Edward D Garten. Stamford JAI Press 2000. Vol 17 ISBN 0762306475 ISSN 07320671 350p US $82.50 ARL Statistics 1998-99 compiled and edited by Martha...

Standards for University Libraries.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Two new publications have been released which will be of interest to all university libraries: Best Practice Handbook for Australian Libraries and Guidelines for the Application of Best Practice in Australian University Libraries. These are the...